Merlin by Encord: Manage your AI data infrastructure in a single conversation

Hey Product Hunt 👋 We're the team behind Encord, the multimodal data platform for the leading physical AI and enterprise teams. Today we're introducing Merlin, the agentic intelligence layer for Encord that works with you, wherever you work — helping you build, observe and optimize your AI data infrastructure in a single conversation. Now in beta via MCP, in Claude, Codex and all other agentic coding platforms – with Slack and more coming soon. Software is changing faster than ever. Interfaces are becoming more conversational and intent-driven, and iteration cycles are getting rapidly shorter. Merlin is how we're making sure AI teams building on Encord keep pace with this evolution — with agentic capabilities that extend the Encord experience to the tools you already live in. Here's what you can do with Merlin: 1. Build — go from a document or a prompt to a fully configured project designed for your use case. 2. Observe — see the metrics and coverage gaps that matter, and get a clear read on the state of your data on demand. 3. Optimize — find the issues holding your model back, and jump back into Encord to fix the data and workflows behind them. Merlin is launching in Beta. We're opening early access to a small group of customers to build Merlin alongside us and shape where it goes. Early access to Merlin via MCP is live now, with more integrations coming soon. We’d love to hear from anyone working with AI data at scale — what would you actually want an agent to do with your data stack? Tell us in the comments.