Prefect
Prefect provides a unified automation engine to eliminate 'negative engineering' in data, machine learning, and AI workflows.
At a Glance
- Data Engineering
- Data Science
- Machine Learning Teams
- AI Startups
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AI Tools by Prefect
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FastMCP
Python MCP Server Framework
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Products & Services
The latest generation of the Prefect orchestration engine, designed for high-performance and resilient workflows.
A fully managed SaaS platform for monitoring, managing, and observing workflows with enterprise-grade security.
Production-grade Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to enable seamless integration between AI agents and data.
A high-performance framework for building and scaling AI agents using the Model Context Protocol.
Market Position
Prefect positions itself as the modern, Python-native alternative to legacy tools like Apache Airflow, focusing on developer experience and 'negative engineering'.
Leadership
Founders
Jeremiah Lowin
CEO of Prefect. Former PMC member of Apache Airflow. Background in finance and risk management at large financial institutions. Harvard University alumnus.
Chris White
President and former CTO of Prefect. Mathematician (The University of Texas at Austin) turned software engineer. Joined as CTO from day one.
Executive Team
Jeremiah Lowin
Founder & CEO
Creator of Prefect, former Apache Airflow PMC member, finance/risk background.
Chris White
President
Former CTO, mathematician, and software engineer who joined at the company's inception.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Prefect was founded to solve the problem of 'negative engineering'—the defensive code written to handle failure, retries, and monitoring. Founder Jeremiah Lowin, an Apache Airflow contributor, envisioned a system that allowed developers to build workflows using native Python code without the friction of legacy orchestration tools.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Subscription-based SaaS (Prefect Cloud) and Enterprise licenses.
Pricing Tiers
2 users, 5 deployments, 500 min serverless.
3 users, 20 deployments, 75 hr serverless, webhooks.
4-8 users, 100 deployments, 225 hr serverless, service accounts.
5-20 users, 1,000 deployments, SSO, RBAC.
Unlimited deployments, advanced security, 99.9% SLA.
Target Markets
- Data Engineering
- Data Science
- Machine Learning Teams
- AI Startups
- Fortune 500 Enterprises
- Data pipeline automation
- ML model training and deployment
- Real-time analytics orchestration
- AI agent and LLM application management
- Cash App
- NASA
- Meta
- Cisco