The AI Data Analyst Playbook
A free guide to rolling out an AI data analyst people trust. Five stages, clear owners, and the two chapters everyone skips: maintenance and cost.
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Your AI Analyst Will Be Worse Next Month
Anthropic went from 95% accuracy to 65% in a single month. Nothing broke. The business moved and the context stood still.
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Give the Intern a Budget
Cheap intelligence keeps getting cheaper while the frontier gets pricier. Which questions deserve which level is a governance choice, not a bill.
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10 Best Cloud Analytics Platforms In 2026
I'll go over the 10 best cloud analytics platforms to help you pick the one that fits your warehouse and your budget.
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10 Best Marketing Data Visualization Tools In 2026
I'll go over the 10 best marketing data visualization tools so you can work out which one fits the way your team actually reports.
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The Semantic Layer Solves the Wrong Half of Your Problem
Finding the right metric and computing it correctly are different jobs. A semantic layer only does the second. That is why the studies disagree.
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10 Best AI Tools For Business Analysts In 2026
I’ll go over the 10 best AI tools for business analysts to help you make the right choice.
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10 Best AI Tools For Financial Analysis In 2026
I’ll go over the 10 best AI tools for financial analysis to help you make an informed decision.
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How 14 Companies Built AI Data Analysts
Every published internal AI data analyst, from Pinterest to OpenAI. The numbers, and the five patterns that repeat.
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Domo Pricing: Is It Worth It In 2026? [Reviewed]
I’ll go over Domo’s pricing to help you make the right choice.
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Julius AI Pricing: Is It Worth It In 2026? [Reviewed]
I’ll go over Julius AI’s pricing in detail to help you make an informed decision.
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Looker Pricing: Is It Worth It In 2026? [Reviewed]
I’ll go over Looker’s pricing to help you make an informed decision.
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Tableau Pricing: Is It Worth It In 2026? [Reviewed]
I’ll go over Tableau’s pricing to help you make a better-informed decision.
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Domo vs. Tableau vs. Dot: Which One Is Better?
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Looker vs. Tableau vs. Dot: Which One Is Better?
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Sisense vs. Microsoft Power BI vs. Dot: Which One Is Better?
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Sisense vs. Tableau vs. Dot: Which One Is Better?
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Microsoft Power BI vs. Domo vs. Dot: Which One Is Better?
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Microsoft Power BI vs. Tableau vs. Dot: Which One Is Better?
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10 Best Hex Alternatives & Competitors In 2026
Are you looking for the best Hex alternatives in 2026?
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Microsoft Power BI Pricing: Is It Worth It In 2026? [Reviewed]
I’ll go over Microsoft Power BI’s pricing to help you see if it’s worth it for you.
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10 Best Sisense Alternatives & Competitors In 2026
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10 Best Skopx Alternatives & Competitors In 2026
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Conversational Analytics: What It Is & How To Do It In 2026
Learn what conversational analytics is and how to set it up in five steps with Dot, the AI data analyst.
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How To Set Up Self-Service Analytics In 2026?
Are you trying to set up self-service analytics for your team in 2026?
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AI Didn't Make the Semantic Layer Necessary. It Made It Cheap.
The industry spent three years debating whether AI analytics needs a semantic layer. Wrong question. The right question is what it costs, and the answer just changed.
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Your Next Data Contributors Won't Write SQL
Business users are already shaping your metric definitions, one AI conversation at a time. The stack that captures those contributions wins.
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10 Best Tellius Alternatives & Competitors In 2026
Are you looking for the best Tellius alternatives?
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10 Best Zoho Analytics Alternatives & Competitors In 2026
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The Same Customer, Spelled Four Ways
Entity resolution used to be the analyst's silent chore. AI analysts surface it on day one, and embeddings finally make it tractable.
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Pay at Preparation Time or Pay at Query Time
Every data question has a cost. The only choice is when you pay it, and whether your payments compound.
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10 Best Mode Alternatives & Competitors In 2026
Are you looking for the best Mode alternatives?
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10 Best Self-Service BI Tools & Software In 2026
Are you trying to compare the best self-service BI tools in 2026?
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10 Best BI Tools For Data Visualization In 2026
Are you looking for the best business intelligence tools for data visualization?
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Your Data Model Is the Prompt
Teams spend weeks engineering prompts for AI analytics and minutes naming columns. The agent reads your schema far more often than your instructions.
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10 Best Conversational Analytics Software & Tools In 2026
Are you trying to compare the best conversational analytics tools in 2026?
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10 Best Self-Service Analytics Tools & Software In 2026
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10 Best Qlik Sense Alternatives & Competitors In 2026
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10 Best Sigma Computing Alternatives In 2026
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10 Best AskEnola Alternatives & Competitors In 2026
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10 Best Supaboard Alternatives & Competitors In 2026
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10 Best Decision Intelligence Software & Platforms In 2026
I'll review the top 10 decision intelligence platforms for data teams that want to skip dashboards and get to decisions faster.
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10 Best Lightdash Alternatives & Competitors In 2026
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10 Best Omni Analytics Alternatives & Competitors In 2026
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10 Best ThoughtSpot Alternatives & Competitors In 2026
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From 10% to 90% on Adyen's DABstep: configuring a data warehouse agent
Google's Data Science Agent reaches ~52% on Adyen's DABstep. Trained analysts: ~62% in hours. A configured Dot answered 90% in seconds — same model.
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10 Best AI Data Integration Tools and Software In 2026
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10 Best AI Dashboard Software & Tools In 2026
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10 Best AI Data Analyst Software & Tools In 2026
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10 Best Tableau Alternatives & Competitors In 2026
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10 Best Zenlytic Alternatives & Competitors In 2026
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10 Best TextQL Alternatives & Competitors In 2026
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10 Best DataGPT Alternatives & Competitors In 2026
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10 Best Metabase AI Alternatives & Competitors In 2026
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10 Best Vanna AI Alternatives & Competitors In 2026
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Dot vs. Claude Code for Data Analysis
Claude Code can query your database. So can Dot. The difference is who else on your team will use it - and whether you can trust the answers.
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10 Best Basedash Alternatives & Competitors In 2026
10 Best Basedash Alternatives & Competitors In 2026
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10 Best Julius AI Alternatives & Competitors In 2026
10 Best Julius AI Alternatives & Competitors In 2026
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10 Best Domo AI Alternatives & Competitors In 2026
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10 Best Looker Alternatives & Competitors In 2026
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How Dot Uses Your Power BI Semantic Models to Deliver Answers in Natural Language
How Dot Uses Your Power BI Semantic Models to Deliver Answers in Natural Language
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10 Best MindsDB Alternatives & Competitors In 2026
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Instacart's Griffin 2.0: The ML Platform Behind the AI
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What OpenAI's Data Agent Teaches Us (2026)
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10 Best Microsoft Power BI Alternatives & Competitors In 2026
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d0: What Vercel's AI Data Agent Teaches Us About the Future of Analytics (2025)
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Gpt 5.2 is good but ...
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How DoorDash Built an Internal AI Platform That Actually Works (2025)
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Instacart's Intent Engine: Why Fine-Tuning Beats RAG
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ClickHouse's AgentHouse: When a Database Company Bets on AI Agents
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Ramp Research: The Analyst Agent That Answers 1,800 Questions a Month
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Inside Stripe's AI Data Stack: Hubert, Toolshed, and the Data Discovery Problem
Inside Stripe's AI Data Stack: Hubert, Toolshed, and the Data Discovery Problem
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Root Cause Analysis: How to Uncover Key Drivers Behind Your Metrics
Root Cause Analysis: How to Uncover Key Drivers Behind Your Metrics
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How to Build a Data Culture: A Playbook By Stage
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Will AI replace managers? Early Signs Say Yes
Will AI replace managers? Early Signs Say Yes
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Will AI Replace Data Analysts? A Data Founder's Perspective
Will AI Replace Data Analysts? A Data Founder's Perspective
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Uber's Finch: The Financial Data Agent That Lives in Slack
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Conversational Analytics with LLMs in 2025: From Data-Chat to Decision Acceleration
Conversational Analytics with LLMs in 2025: From Data-Chat to Decision Acceleration
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Salesforce's Horizon Agent: Text-to-SQL in Slack
Salesforce's Horizon Agent: Text-to-SQL in Slack
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AI Uncorks the Secret: Data Reveals What Really Makes Red Wine Great
AI Uncorks the Secret: Data Reveals What Really Makes Red Wine Great
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Has Product Hunt Peaked? AI data analysis of 76,822 Launches
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Introducing Deep Analysis: The Next Generation of AI-Powered Analytics Agents
Introducing Deep Analysis: The Next Generation of AI-Powered Analytics Agents
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What Netflix's LORE Teaches Us About Building AI Data Assistants (2024)
What Netflix's LORE Teaches Us About Building AI Data Assistants (2024)
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Follow the Money: Insights from FEC Data on US Elections 2024
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What LinkedIn Learned Building an AI Data Agent for 300+ Weekly Users (2024)
What LinkedIn Learned Building an AI Data Agent for 300+ Weekly Users (2024)
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How Airbnb Built an AI Platform That Actually Works (2024)
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How Uber Built an AI Data Agent That Saves 140,000 Hours Every Month (2024)
How Uber Built an AI Data Agent That Saves 140,000 Hours Every Month (2024)
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What we have learned about LLM agents over 1.5y building an AI data and analytics assistant
What we have learned about LLM agents over 1.5y building an AI data and analytics assistant
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Analytics LLM assistants + Semantic Layer = Easy data adoption
Analytics LLM assistants + Semantic Layer = Easy data adoption
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How Pinterest Built Text-to-SQL: The Table Discovery Problem
How Pinterest Built Text-to-SQL: The Table Discovery Problem
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Text to SQL is solved. What's next?
Text to SQL is solved. What's next?
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From ChatGPT to autonomous AI agents: the real power of LLMs
From ChatGPT to autonomous AI agents: the real power of LLMs
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ChatGPT on Looker: bring analytics self-service to the next level with Dot
ChatGPT on Looker: bring analytics self-service to the next level with Dot
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Self-service is dead, long live self-service!
Self-service is dead, long live self-service!
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