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The New Analytics Question: Not "Can AI Answer It?" But "Should AI Answer It?"
For much of the past two years, the analytics industry has been focused on proving what AI can do.
Aug 13
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Blair Bader
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The Future of BI Isn't Dashboards vs AI - It's Which Questions Deserve Each
Few topics in analytics generate more debate right now than the future of business intelligence.
Aug 3
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Blair Bader
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July 2026
Agentic BI Development: Building a Power BI Report Without Power BI
No manual semantic model. No dragging fields onto a canvas. Just a Solid semantic model, the Solid MCP, and Cursor. The result is a fully-formed .pbip…
Jul 27
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Zack Martin
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How one operator taught AI to run his business
Eldar Bar-Or, owner of 603 Auto Salvage, built agents that evaluate vehicles, make offers, manage marketing, and close deals. The hard part was teaching…
Jul 21
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Yoni Leitersdorf
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From voice AI pilot to production: the operating model behind trusted AI
Yoni sat down with Nate Christiansen of Henry Schein One to unpack how his team moved voice AI from a $40,000 pilot to 1,500+ daily customer…
Jul 17
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Yoni Leitersdorf
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The missing data layer behind effective brand marketing
As AI makes creative production faster and cheaper, Lindsay King explains why the real marketing bottleneck is shifting from making more content to…
Jul 3
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Yoni Leitersdorf
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June 2026
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.
Jun 17
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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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