Cort serves as the the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. Prior to joining AtScale, Cort held leadership positions in the Boston startup ecosystem including founder, chief evangelist and venture capitalist at SCVGR, DartBoston, Flybridge Capital Partners, Terrible Labs, and Accomplice VC.
April 6, 2026
Best Data Governance Tools for Enterprises: 2026 GuideFor years, data governance was viewed as a background concern. Teams had bigger priorities to tackle and more pertinent problems to solve. Then AI agents came into the fold and started generating business decisions from inconsistent data, and suddenly, governance…
As AI agents move beyond the helpful copilot phase and into more powerful applications, enterprises are responding with global adoption. Agentic AI is everywhere, from analytics and finance to customer service and operations. It's changing how organizations go from asking…
March 30, 2026
Why AI Agent Governance is the Latest Priority for EnterprisesOver the past year alone, AI tools that once surfaced insights and handed them to a human for action have begun carrying out those actions themselves. Sixty-two percent of organizations are now experimenting with AI agents, according to McKinsey's latest…
March 27, 2026
AI vs. BI: Differences, What Changed, and Why Semantics Became CriticalEnterprise analytics was never just about data. It was about trust and confidence, getting the right people the right information so they could make intelligent decisions and keep things moving forward. The BI stack was made for that purpose, and…
March 26, 2026
AI Agents Are Transforming Compliance: Opportunities and Risks for Enterprise DataAutonomous AI agents, which are systems designed to accomplish tasks and goals independently without human oversight, have become integral across a wide range of use cases, spanning from customer service to supply chain management. It's no surprise that, as regulatory…
March 16, 2026
Using AI Agents for Data Analysis: How Autonomous Agents Are Changing AnalyticsFor a long time, enterprise analytics centered around building dashboards, running scheduled reports, and relying on the right person to ask the right question at the right time. That model is changing. Autonomous AI agents can now look through data…
December 18, 2025
Snowflake Venture’s Strategic Equity Investment in AtScale: The Strategic Play for Semantics in the EnterpriseThis isn’t about funding. It’s about control. After 15 years helping enterprises modernize analytics, I’ve learned to ignore the size of the check. What matters is why it was written. Snowflake Ventures led AtScale’s largest equity financing to date. But…
December 9, 2025
From Governance to Guidance: The Next Phase of AI ReadinessAI Adoption Has Outpaced AI Readiness Every enterprise I talk to right now is chasing the same goal: operationalizing AI agents and agentic analytics. The enthusiasm is there. The budgets are there. The pilots are running. But the confidence? That's…
November 12, 2025
Why 57% of Data Leaders Are About to Make a Costly Mistake (And How to Avoid It)Here's a wake-up call that should concern every data leader: while 50% of enterprises have invested in semantic layers, 57% of those using vendor-native implementations are already considering platform changes this year, according to Hex's State of Data Teams report.…
October 7, 2025
From Models to Meaning: Why Semantic Layers Are the Foundation of Enterprise GenAI SuccessEnterprise GenAI deployment is accelerating rapidly, with organizations rushing to implement AI copilots, natural language query interfaces, and agentic AI systems across their business workflows. But here's the hard truth that I'm seeing emerge from early implementations across our customer…
September 18, 2025
Is Your Semantic Layer Ready for the Agentic AI Hype Curve?After 15 years helping enterprises unlock the value of their data investments, I've seen my share of technology hype cycles. But I'll be direct with you: the Agentic AI wave isn't just another trend, it's fundamentally reshaping how organizations think…
July 16, 2025
The Future of Business Intelligence: Trends to Watch in 2025 and BeyondBusiness intelligence is evolving fast. In 2025, AI, machine learning, and real-time analytics will fundamentally reshape the way enterprises ask questions, deliver answers, and act on data. Dashboards are no longer just reporting tools; they’re interactive, intelligent systems. And business…
June 24, 2025
AI Strategy Starts with the “Why”: A Business Leader’s Guide to Scalable, Trustworthy AIGenerative AI (GenAI) is transforming how we do business. The possibilities are vast, from customer support automation to intelligent forecasting and predictive maintenance. But for every success story, there are dozens of stalled pilots and unrealized promises. What separates organizations…
April 29, 2025
Top 5 Reasons to Attend the 2025 Semantic Layer Summit: AI, GenAI, NLQ & MoreAs the data and analytics landscape evolves rapidly, enterprise organizations are rethinking how they deliver scalable, governed, and intelligent insights. At the center of this transformation? The semantic layer—a foundational component of the modern data stack that bridges business users…
April 22, 2025
How Vodafone Portugal Transformed Telecom Analytics with AtScale’s Semantic Layer + CelfocusIn telecommunications, data is abundant, but turning it into useful insights can be extremely difficult. Communication Service Providers (CSPs) operate in a fast-paced, highly competitive market, where success depends on efficiently managing massive volumes of data quickly and reliably. But…
February 27, 2025
The Current Challenges in Big Data: Navigating the Complexities of a Data-Driven WorldIn this digital age, big data is both an opportunity and a challenge for enterprises. While the insights derived from big data can drive innovation, improve customer experiences, and streamline operations, the complexities of managing, processing, and analyzing massive datasets…
September 19, 2024
AtScale Leads the Way in 2024 GigaOm Sonar Report for Semantic Layers and Metric StoresSemantic layers and metric stores have emerged in the fast-paced world of data analytics as critical technologies that enable organizations to streamline data access and ensure consistency across business intelligence (BI), generative AI, and analytics tools. We’re thrilled that…
June 12, 2024
Flexible, Consumption-Based Pricing: AtScale’s Pricing ExplainedA Semantic Layer is an incredibly powerful piece of technology for any data-driven organization. At AtScale, our goal is to ensure that all companies, large and small, can use the best-in-class semantic layer. This is the basis for our…