QueryStory launches enterprise AI platform with SQL verification for answer traceability

Startup QueryStory emerged from stealth on August 26, 2026, launching an enterprise AI platform designed to make data analysis traceable and trustworthy. Founded by Google and Chronicle veterans Shapor Naghibzadeh, Stanley Yang, and David Glusick, the platform automatically surfaces underlying SQL queries and confidence indicators. QueryStory raised $6 million in late 2025 from Brightmind Partners and New York Life Ventures at a $60 million valuation, aiming to bridge the trust gap in enterprise AI.

QueryStory platform launch

• ▪The startup QueryStory emerged from stealth on August 26, 2026, launching an enterprise artificial intelligence platform designed to work with large, proprietary databases.
• ▪QueryStory is a model-agnostic platform that currently relies primarily on the latest models from leading frontier artificial intelligence laboratories.
• ▪QueryStory was co-founded by CEO Shapor Naghibzadeh, CTO Stanley Yang, and CPO David Glusick (spelled David Glusic in some reports).

SQL query verification

• ▪QueryStory automatically surfaces SQL queries and features a confidence indicator that shows why its artificial intelligence agents believe the generated analyses are accurate.
• ▪The QueryStory platform displays the SQL queries used to generate its answers, allowing enterprise users to trace and verify the logic behind the data analysis.

Answer traceability features

• ▪QueryStory allows users to flag data analyses and send them to human colleagues for review, storing the results of those reviews directly within the platform's data context.
• ▪QueryStory combines data analysis, visualization creation, and result verification mechanisms to serve target audiences like sales teams and operations managers.

Enterprise AI trust gap

• ▪QueryStory aims to bridge the trust gap in enterprise artificial intelligence, preventing situations where employees generate and share conflicting interpretations of the same metrics.
• ▪Brightmind Partners (referred to as Brightmind Ventures in some reports) partner Tayler Sipperly stated that artificial intelligence is more brittle than people realize for building durable, large-scale business systems.

Six million seed funding

• ▪New York Life Ventures managing director Tim Del Bello uses QueryStory to prepare quarterly business reviews, a task that previously required several people.
• ▪QueryStory raised $6 million in seed funding in late 2025 from Brightmind Partners and New York Life Ventures, valuing the startup at $60 million.

Founder cybersecurity background

• ▪QueryStory co-founder Shapor Naghibzadeh worked as a Google systems operations engineer in 2009, assisting in the investigation of the China-backed Operation Aurora cyberattack.
• ▪QueryStory co-founder Shapor Naghibzadeh spent six years building complex data querying tools for security analysts before co-founding the Google X Labs startup Chronicle in 2016.