• Content type Thought leadership Tag AI Azure AI Generative AI Audience Business decision makers IT decision makers Product Azure AI Azure Cosmos DB Microsoft Foundry When we talk about agentic AI, it’s easy to default to abstract conversations about models, prompts, and orchestration. • But the most compelling stories I see are the ones where AI unlocks something deeply human-creativity, intuition, and expertise-at entirely new speed and scale. • That’s why I was excited to hostColor Meets Code: Pantone’s Agentic AI Journey on Azure, a webinar featuring two Pantone leaders, Kristijan Risteski, solutions architect, and Rohani Jotshi, senior director of engineering. • During the session, Kris and Rohani shared how they’re applying agentic AI to one of the most foundational elements of creative work: color-and how an AI-ready database,Azure Cosmos DB, plays a central role in making that possible. • The challenge: Scaling color expertise in a real-time, interactive world Pantone is widely recognized as a global authority on color. • For decades, their teams have combined human expertise, color science, and trend forecasting to help designers and brands define, communicate, and control color across industries-from fashion and product design to packaging and digital experiences.

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  • Pantone unveiled its Palette Generator, an agentic AI chat tool that lets designers instantly generate color palettes by querying decades of Pantone research and trend data. The system uses a multi‑agent architecture-specialized agents such as a “chief color scientist” and a palette‑generation agent-to interpret user intent, retrieve context, and produce curated palettes in real time. Azure Cosmos DB underpins the experience, storing chat history, prompts, and interaction insights, and enabling millisecond‑level data retrieval at global scale. Pantone highlighted the database’s ease of integration and performance as key to delivering a responsive, conversational AI that scales across industries.

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