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September 2, 2026 · evaluation · ai-analyst · governance
How to Evaluate an AI Analyst Before It Touches Production
A buyer-ready evaluation for ambiguity handling, visible interpretation, refusal behavior, semantic checks, query inspection, and provenance.
August 26, 2026 · semantic-layer · governance · analysis
The Meaning Hiding Inside ‘Growing’
A governed metric is only part of an analytical question. Words such as growing, declining, and churning can still hide choices about population, period, comparison, and scope.
August 19, 2026 · self-service-bi · trust · opinion
Self-Service Gave Us Access, Not Agreement
Self-service BI expanded access to data. It did not settle which definition, report, or interpretation a business question should use.
August 12, 2026 · text-to-sql · bitter-lesson · opinion
Why Direct Text-to-SQL Hits a Governance Wall
Direct text-to-SQL can generate excellent code. The governance problem begins when the business interpretation exists only inside that generation step.
August 5, 2026 · bi · adoption · research
BI Works. So Why Do Only 16% Use It Regularly?
BARC reports strong BI benefits but only 16% regular use in large enterprises. Explore the gap between a business question and an explicit analysis.
July 29, 2026 · agentic-bi · semantic-layer · vision
The Engine Is Not the System
Anthropic published a detailed account of how it runs self-service analytics with Claude. Read closely, it's the strongest case yet for why a model alone won't do your BI — and what has to sit around it.
June 15, 2026 · context-graphs · vision · moat
You Can't Buy Your Context Graph
Tony Seale's warning is sharp: a context you can buy is a context your competitors can buy too. Here's why Spotonix doesn't sell you context — it gives you the machinery to build and own it.
April 16, 2026 · context-graphs · vision · AI
Context Graphs Are Coming to BI
Ashu Garg argues the next trillion-dollar opportunity is context graphs — decision traces that capture how organizations reason. Here's what that means for business intelligence.
August 15, 2025 · opinion · dashboards
Dashboards Are Read-Only Knowledge
Your dashboards capture what someone once thought was important. They don't capture why, how, or what happens when the question changes.
August 1, 2025 · research · analyst-workflow
How Analysts Actually Think (And Why It Matters for AI)
Expert analysts don't write SQL from scratch. They discover, pattern-match, and compose. We studied how — and built a system that thinks the same way.
THE MEANING GAP
What breaks when you point an LLM at your data.
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