Dashboard

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The description fields in your dbt project used to be read by nobody. Now an agent reads them.

AI writes a working pipeline in 10 minutes. Nobody has asked it to be on call for one.

A broken pipeline costs you an hour. A wrong number nobody catches costs you a quarter.

Nobody wants to be the one who questions the tool the last person bought before they left.

We scored a client's pipelines on cost against consumption. About 1 in 5 had a monthly bill and zero consumers.

Four questions, asked consistently, replaced most of one engineering manager's architecture decisions.

A failure that cost one dashboard last year now takes out 40 downstream jobs. The platform grew. The alerts didn't.

On one team, engineers reported their own near-misses weekly. Incidents dropped within a quarter.

The DORA metrics are over a decade old, proven on software teams, and unused on most data teams I meet.

A CTO said "that's exactly us" four minutes into the call. The pitch was a description of his company.

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