Duality Assistant

Duality Assistant is a privacy-preserving AI research agent built on the Duality Platform. It is designed for research teams that need to extract insights from sensitive data without exposing that data at any point in the process. The tool guides users through the full research lifecycle — from formulating a question to running analytics and generating reports — while enforcing data governance and security constraints throughout.

Duality Assistant sits atop the Duality Platform, where it learns the user's domain, navigates data entitlements, and issues secure computations on their behalf. It is intended for organizations operating under strict privacy requirements, such as those working with clinical, financial, or other regulated datasets.

Core Capabilities

• Natural language interface: Users interact through a chat interface, asking questions in plain English without needing to learn query syntax or data schemas. For example, a user can ask "What's the survival rate for pediatric cancer patients by stage and gender?" and the agent handles the rest.
• Data and workload exploration: The agent provides summaries of accessible datasets and workloads, along with suggestions for relevant analytics.
• Deep research support: Users can define a research problem and the agent analyzes across multiple datasets and workloads, returning actionable results without requiring manual session setup.
• Domain-expert customization: Users can upload content to teach and enrich their agent, creating a custom assistant tailored to a specific domain or use case.
• Automated reports: The agent generates downloadable reports that are summarized and visualized, reducing the time needed to communicate findings.
• Insight discovery: The agent surfaces patterns and opportunities across datasets using AI-driven, privacy-preserving methods.

How It Works

1. Research AI Assistant: Interprets user goals and manages the research process — planning, executing, and summarizing tasks — without accessing raw data directly.
2. Duality MCP Server: Acts as a policy-aware intermediary between the assistant and the underlying platform. It provides the tools and permissions the assistant is authorized to use, ensuring operations remain secure and contextually appropriate.
3. Duality Platform: The underlying privacy-first infrastructure that manages entitlements, enforces governance policies, and powers secure analytics using Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs), including Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), Trusted Execution Environments (TEE), Federated Learning, and Differential Privacy.

Security and Privacy

• Data remains encrypted during storage, in transit, and during computation.
• Sensitive assets are never exposed, even when used to generate AI-driven insights.
• All operations occur within a governed environment with enforced entitlements and access controls.
• Privacy protections are built into the architecture rather than added as an external layer.

Duality Assistant is part of the broader Duality Platform and is positioned for teams conducting collaborative research on sensitive data at scale. The platform's use of advanced PETs makes it applicable to regulated industries where data sharing and joint analysis would otherwise be restricted.