https://spotonix.com/blog/ Field notes on business meaning, inspectable analysis, context systems, and AI analytics evaluation. en-us https://spotonix.com/blog/how-to-evaluate-an-ai-analyst-before-production/ https://spotonix.com/blog/how-to-evaluate-an-ai-analyst-before-production/ A buyer-ready evaluation for ambiguity handling, visible interpretation, refusal behavior, semantic checks, query inspection, and provenance. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://spotonix.com/blog/the-ungoverned-verbs/ https://spotonix.com/blog/the-ungoverned-verbs/ 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. Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://spotonix.com/blog/self-service-gave-us-access-not-agreement/ https://spotonix.com/blog/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. Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://spotonix.com/blog/why-text-to-sql-will-hit-a-wall/ https://spotonix.com/blog/why-text-to-sql-will-hit-a-wall/ Direct text-to-SQL can generate excellent code. The governance problem begins when the business interpretation exists only inside that generation step. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://spotonix.com/blog/the-84-percent-problem/ https://spotonix.com/blog/the-84-percent-problem/ BARC reports strong BI benefits but only 16% regular use in large enterprises. Explore the gap between a business question and an explicit analysis. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://spotonix.com/blog/the-engine-is-not-the-system/ https://spotonix.com/blog/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. Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://spotonix.com/blog/you-cant-buy-your-context-graph/ https://spotonix.com/blog/you-cant-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. Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://spotonix.com/blog/context-graphs-are-coming-to-bi/ https://spotonix.com/blog/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. Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://spotonix.com/blog/dashboards-are-read-only-knowledge/ https://spotonix.com/blog/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. Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://spotonix.com/blog/how-analysts-actually-think/ https://spotonix.com/blog/how-analysts-actually-think/ 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. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT