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The inevitable AI data scientist and the end of static BI

Doe is going to change analytics forever

Sep 22, 2025 | Adrian Barbir | 5 min read

People spent decades building dashboards and BI tools that promised self-service analytics for everyone. Instead, we got static reports and dozens of dashboards that show what happened but never explain why. Your company generates petabytes of data across dozens of systems, yet when your CEO asks "Why did enterprise renewals drop 3% last quarter?" you still need someone to figure out what to measure, someone else to determine how to measure it across multiple data sources, another person to interpret the conflicting signals, an analyst to dig through the findings, and finally someone to translate what it all means for the business. This broken process can drag on for weeks while opportunities slip away and problems compound. What most people haven't realized yet is that this massive failure of business intelligence represents one of the largest opportunities of the next decade. We're building the solution with autonomous agents that investigate business problems like digital detectives, following clues across your systems without human intervention.

The reason no one has solved this yet comes down to brutal engineering realities. Your data lives in CRMs, ERPs, warehouses, and that one Excel file Janet refuses to migrate, each with different schemas, permissions, and data quality issues. GPT-5 and future models can write brilliant SQL, but they can't process petabyte-scale datasets, merge inconsistent subscription records from Salesforce with usage data from your application database, or maintain investigative context across a branching analysis that might require dozens of interconnected queries. Just as databases evolved sophisticated query optimizers, indexing strategies, and caching layers to handle complex workloads at scale, we're building application-layer infrastructure specifically designed for business intelligence. This isn't about making language models smarter. It's about solving the fundamental execution problem: creating environments that can process your company's complete data universe at petabyte scale while maintaining the speed and reliability that business decisions demand. The engineering challenges involve distributed computing, real-time data federation, and enterprise reliability requirements that extend far beyond what any general AI lab will ever build.

What we're building won't just automate analysis. It will fundamentally change how businesses operate. Imagine every employee having instant access to a data scientist that never sleeps, can investigate any business question in minutes instead of weeks, and discovers insights human analysts would never have time to explore. The scale of optimization becomes staggering: a 5% improvement in customer retention for a $100M company generates $5M in additional revenue, a 3% reduction in churn for a subscription business can add $15M annually, and catching operational inefficiencies even days earlier can save millions in costs. Revenue optimization that currently takes quarters will happen in real-time. Product decisions based on hunches will be replaced by continuous hypothesis testing across your entire customer base. Companies with our autonomous data investigators will spot market trends months before competitors, optimize operations with surgical precision, and make decisions at the speed of their data instead of the speed of their analytics team. We're building a system that can intelligently answer any question about your business, transforming how business is done and turning data from a historical record into a real-time competitive weapon.