This Halloween, forget ghosts and goblins. The real monsters may be lurking inside your enterprise data. Every October, we willingly surround ourselves with things designed to scare us. Haunted houses. Creepy costumes. Jack-o’-lanterns glowing in…
My wife Emily and I are regulars at our gym here in North Carolina. We also both happen to work in the world of data and AI. You have a lot of time to think…
You’ve seen the demo. An agent books the meeting, writes the code, answers the customer, reconciles the invoice. The room claps. Then it hits production and quietly dies. The gap between a compelling demo and…
In May, I wrote that most enterprises aren’t struggling with AI because the models are weak. They’re struggling because their operational environments were never built to support AI at scale. Get that foundation good enough…
Nearly every executive I talk to today feels the same urgency around AI and the same frustration. Despite months of experimentation, their organizations still can’t seem to create repeatable, operational value from it. There’s no…
I first started working with Snowflake close to a decade ago when it was mostly a cloud data warehouse. It was fairly simple. You stored data, queried it, and got away from the headaches of…
A Different Kind of Advantage Most companies think scale is the advantage. It’s not. Speed is. The mid-market sits in a position many companies underestimate. You’ve moved beyond startup mode and now operate with real…
I spent a good chunk of my early life wanting to be on Saturday Night Live. I’d do the Adam Sandler guitar bits, the “Opera Man” voice, and I was that guy at every family…
Over the past 35+ years working in data, BI, and analytics consulting, I have seen technology evolve at an incredible pace. Platforms have come and gone. Architectures have shifted. Terminology has changed. But one thing…
As we head into 2026, one thing is clear: the experimentation phase of AI is officially over. This is the year organizations will double down on systems, governance, and architectures that turn AI from an…
