Building a data layer from the storage up.

PLOMID, Platform for Modern Intelligence and Data, exists because applications and the AI clients beside them stopped fitting into one data model, and the answer to that should not be a shelf of databases.

Thesis

The data layer is the last place still assembled by hand.

Compute, deployment and networking all moved behind a common abstraction. Data did not: it stayed split by shape, with the integration work pushed onto whoever is building the application.

The bet behind PLOMID is that the split is a historical accident rather than a requirement. Rows, documents and events are different ways of shaping data, not different physics.

If they can share one storage contract and one planner, then the integration layer between them stops being something every team rebuilds. That is the whole thesis, and it is falsifiable: either the layers hold, or they do not.

Everything on this site is written against that standard. Capability status is stated plainly, and the parts that are still design are named as still design.

Name
PLOMID, Platform for Modern Intelligence and Data.
Building
Unified data infrastructure: storage, query, and the layers between them.
Today
SQL, documents and time series over one data layer.
Direction
Vector, graph, blobs, and the deployment fabric.
Principles

Six rules we hold the work to.

Principles are only worth writing down if they can be violated. Each of these can, and would be visible from the outside if it were.

Infrastructure before the surface

Foundational systems get engineered before the layer that markets them. The storage contract is written before the query console looks nice.

Familiar interfaces first

Where a familiar interface already exists and works, use it. SQL is not a legacy burden; it is the shortest path between an engineer and an answer.

One storage contract

Every data model inherits the same durability and recovery rules. When a model needs an exception, that is a signal the design is wrong somewhere.

State status plainly

Available, in development and roadmap, three words, used the same way on every page, in every sentence that touches a capability.

Invent nothing

No logos we have not earned, no quotes we have not been given, no benchmarks we have not run, no numbers we cannot show.

Control is a feature

Where data lives and who operates the system are part of the product, not terms in a contract.

How we work

Three commitments that shape the work.

The way PLOMID is built is stated as plainly as what it is: what the company is making, how it approaches the engineering, and how to reach the people responsible for it.

From the storage layer up

Work starts at persistence: layout, durability, recovery. If that layer is not solid, everything above it is a liability.

Small and deliberate

One system with few moving parts is easier to reason about than a fleet of specialised services. That preference shapes the software and how it is built.

Publish what is true

This site is written to be checkable. If a claim here cannot be verified against the product, it does not belong on the page.

Careers

Building a database is a long game.

The work sits in storage layout, planning, execution and the boundaries between them. The problems, the principles and how to apply are on the careers page.

PLOMID is a systems problem before it is a product problem. Most of the real work is the kind a user never sees and always depends on — which is exactly why it is worth doing, and why the careers page describes it in the architecture's own vocabulary.

Open roles
Published on the careers page, each with the problem it exists to solve.
Where the work is
Storage and layout, query planning, execution, developer tooling, and the deployment fabric.
How to reach us
Write to [email protected] and say what you would build first.
Working with PLOMID

For investors, press and partners.

Three routes in for the people outside the codebase. Each says what the company is, who to write to, and what it will not claim before it can be shown.

Community

Explore the project. Follow the work. Build with us.

PLOMID is built in public where it can be. Watch the work land on GitHub, follow along on the channels below, or write to the team directly.

[email protected]

Discord and Slack open when the channels do, the icons wait for real invitations, not placeholders.

Built in India. For the world.

Questions

About the company.