Building an AI-powered Analytics Startup

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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • Yoni Leitersdorf

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Agentic analytics, for real: how Solid is already doing what Gartner describes

Gartner’s Market Guide for Agentic Analytics sounds like a roadmap for the future of data and AI. For our customers, it is mostly a description of what…

Mar 15 • Yoni Leitersdorf

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"Chat with your data" is NOT what you should be aiming for

Everyone wants a chat with their data - allow non-technical users to interact with it. That's wrong; the real value shows up when AI stops just…

Mar 11 • Yoni Leitersdorf

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It’s not AI. It’s transformation enabled through AI.

In our Season 2 kickoff of Building with AI: Promises and Heartbreaks, Todd James (ex-Fidelity, ex-Kroger/84.51°, now Aurora Insights) shares what it…

Mar 4 • Yoni Leitersdorf

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February 2026

How We Built a Coding Agent That Lets Anyone on the Team Ship Frontend Changes

AI allows Solid to reliably scale its front-end development (the interface users actually see), without compromising on quality, while letting…

Feb 25 • Ben Menahem

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