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Why AI fails when it ignores the workflow
Preeti Vaidya of Morgan Health on why useful AI starts with workflows, not chatbots, and what healthcare can teach enterprise teams about adoption.
7 hrs ago
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Yoni Leitersdorf
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What Snowflake, Anthropic and Salesforce got right, and wrong, about semantics
Semantic layers, especially auto-generated ones, are becoming the foundation for AI in the enterprise, and now everyone sees it.
Jun 10
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Yoni Leitersdorf
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Test Driven Semantic Models: the missing piece for AI analytics
Semantic models are being built backwards by people, and that's bad. Let's learn from software engineering and start from the tests.
Jun 5
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Yoni Leitersdorf
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May 2026
Building AI in a Regulated Enterprise: Lessons from UBS Wealth Management - Nondas Virvikatis
Yoni, our CEO & Co-Founder, recently sat down with Nondas Virvikatis, who leads product managers building AI capabilities for financial advisors at UBS…
May 27
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Yoni Leitersdorf
From Universes to Agents: A Brief History of the Semantic Layer
Semantic Layers are all the rage... again... where did they come from, and why is this time different?
May 13
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Yoni Leitersdorf
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I asked ChatGPT why companies come to Solid. Here’s what it found
A qualitative analysis of our last two months of customer and prospect conversations shows a clear shift: enterprises are no longer asking whether AI…
May 8
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Yoni Leitersdorf
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April 2026
The Rise of the Expert SLM: Achieving GPT Performance with Specialized Open-Source Models
Smaller models are gaining attention, and can be very useful in specific tasks (especially considering time/cost/accuracy tradeoffs vs LLMs). Tomer…
Apr 24
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Tomer Sidi
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Text2SQL vs. Semantic Layer? The real question is who does the modeling
dbt’s recent benchmark gets an important point right: this is not an either/or debate. But for enterprise teams, the real bottleneck is the work needed…
Apr 18
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Tal Segalov
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From Co-pilots to Colleagues: What Ryan Wexler Sees Coming in Enterprise AI
Ryan Wexler, Principal at SignalFire and a member of Solid’s board, shares what enterprises are actually buying today, why ROI is still hard to prove…
Apr 15
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Yoni Leitersdorf
AI-native engineering for high-stakes work: Lessons from Thomson Reuters’ Rittika Jindal
Yoni and Rittika Jindal of Thomson Reuters met to talk about building reliable AI in high-stakes domains, and how AI-native engineering is changing what…
Apr 1
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Yoni Leitersdorf
March 2026
Why Enterprise AI Struggles with Data, and What Leaders Should Do About It
On March 25, I hosted a webinar with Meenal Iyer and Solomon Kahn on where enterprise AI breaks down, what actually works, and how data leaders should…
Mar 27
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Yoni Leitersdorf
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Your data agents need context. But context is not enough
Jason Cui and Jennifer Li from a16z are absolutely right to put context at the center of AI for data. Yoni Leitersdorf, Solid’s CEO & Co-Founder, shares…
Mar 18
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Yoni Leitersdorf
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