Agent Runtime
LangGraph·Vercel AI SDK·Pydantic AI·Google ADK·custom
Use the Zep SDK with your agent framework or custom application.
Platform
The Context Lake
Unify enterprise data into shared context, with access controls for every user and agent.
Teams that use Zep
Teams that use Zep
Context is scattered across the business
Agents need the right context to complete tasks correctly. That context spans business systems, documents, and conversations. Unifying it across agents requires governance, isolation, and retrieval at scale.
The Context Lake unifies that context in one governed system, serving what each agent’s task requires.
Across every agent. Every user.
Every source of data.
Every source of data.
Context Lake
one system of record across all of it
Inside the Context Lake
The Context Lake manages graphs for users, customers, teams, and topics. Each graph connects facts from conversations, documents, events, and business records.
Agent Runtime
LangGraph·Vercel AI SDK·Pydantic AI·Google ADK·custom
Use the Zep SDK with your agent framework or custom application.
Ingestion
chat·JSON·documents·app events
Add conversations, JSON data, documents, and application events.
Graphiti
Learn moreentity extraction·relationships·ontology·invalidation
Graphiti extracts facts and relationships to construct Context Graphs.
Context Assembly
context blocks·templates·token-efficient
Zep selects context and assembles it into blocks for agent prompts.
Retrieval
sub-200ms·auto-optimized·provenance-linked·policy-filtered
Zep selects context for the task within the specified token budget.
Governance
ABAC·multi-tenant isolation·customer key encryption·retention policies·audit·provenance
Zep applies access policies to reads and writes. It records source information and applies retention policies.
Konig
entities·facts & edges·decision traces·episodes
Konig serves Context Graphs with source information and records of changes over time.
Built on Konig
Konig is Zep’s graph database service, built to manage millions of isolated graphs with temporal history.
Context Lake · section A–Adrawing 06 · engine
Working set · RAM
Hot graphs, served at memory speed.
Snapshots · object store
- snapshot · 2026-05-25 · 18:00
- snapshot · 2026-05-25 · 12:00
- snapshot · 2026-05-24
- snapshot · 2026-05-22
- snapshot · 2026-05-15
- snapshot · 2026-04
Rehydrate · ~40 µs
hot · in-memory working setcold · object-store snapshotsscale 1:∞
Next to your data lake, not instead of it
Keep your data lake for analytics. Use the Context Lake to provide context for agents.
Data
Your Data Lake
Structured, quantitative
Tables, transactions, logs, metrics.
Context Lake
Structured and unstructured data
Use records, documents, conversations, and events as sources of context.
Query model
Your Data Lake
SQL, batch analytics
Optimized for aggregation and retrospective analysis.
Context Lake
Graph traversal, semantic
Temporal context graphs with entity-aware retrieval.
Latency
Your Data Lake
Seconds-to-minutes
Batch jobs, scheduled pipelines, dashboard refresh.
Context Lake
Sub-200ms retrieval
Real-time context at agent inference speed.
Consumers
Your Data Lake
Dashboards & ML
BI tools, data scientists, reporting pipelines.
Context Lake
Agents & assistants
Agents and assistants retrieve context for their tasks.
Governance
Your Data Lake
Row & column ACLs
Table-level permissions, role-based access.
Context Lake
Entity-level ABAC
Attribute-based policies, retention rules, full audit trail.
Recognition
Context infrastructure for the enterprise.
“We can easily see Zep becoming a de facto partner in this layer of the enterprise agent stack.”
Shared context, governed access
Share context across your organization while controlling what each user and agent can access.
Access control
Attribute-based access control
Use attributes to control what context each agent can access and what it can do with it.
Retention
Retention policies
Data expires on the schedule you set. Legal hold blocks deletion when compliance requires it.
Audit trail
22:14/graph/search200115ms
22:11/entity/search4034ms
22:09/graph/search200110ms
Audit and API logs
Detailed logs of every request and access decision, ready for audit.
Choose where to deploy Zep
Zep Cloud, Zep Cloud with your own encryption keys, or a deployment in your VPC.
Managed
Cloud
Use Zep's managed service. No infrastructure to run. Start in minutes.
- SOC 2 Type II
- HIPAA BAA
BYOK
Cloud + Your Own Keys
Use Zep's managed service with your own encryption keys. You control the keys that encrypt data at rest.
- SOC 2 Type II
- HIPAA BAA
BYOC
Bring Your Own Cloud
Deploy Zep inside your VPC. Your network, your perimeter, your compliance boundary.
