Updated July 7, 2026
Why I Joined AtScale: The Semantic Layer Inflection PointOver four and a half years at Snowflake, I watched enterprises run into a problem that's about to get much worse: every major platform has built its own semantic layer, and none of them talk to each other. Many platforms…
Updated July 1, 2026
Enterprise AI: Separate the Reasoning from the CalculationAt this year’s Semantic Layer Summit, practitioners from Anthropic, Chevron, WPP, Accenture, NVIDIA, and OpenHands, compared notes on why production AI keeps breaking down. The consensus? The LLM is not the bottleneck. It’s context. The organizations succeeding in production don’t…
Updated June 26, 2026
Why ChatGPT Gives Different Answers to the Same Question on Your Business DataAsk ChatGPT "what was Q1 revenue?" against your warehouse on Monday and you get $42.3M. Ask it the same question on Tuesday and you get $38.1M. Ask it Wednesday with a different phrasing and you get a number that isn't…
Updated June 25, 2026
The Semantic Layer’s New JobEighteen months ago, Blue Yonder’s analytics engineering team made a decision most data organizations haven’t made yet: they stopped being a BI team. They saw what was coming. AI agents don’t just need access to data. They need to understand…
Updated June 23, 2026
Four AI Pillars and a Wide-Open OpportunityI just got back from the Databricks Data & AI Summit, and I have a lot to unpack. This was the biggest DAIS yet, with 31,309 attendees, and the energy was unmistakable. More importantly, Databricks came in with a sharpened…
Updated June 23, 2026
The Architecture Decision That Lets Carrefour’s Metrics Power Both Google Sheets and AI AgentsImagine if every time you created a document in Microsoft Word you couldn’t read it anywhere else. Not as an email, PDF, or Google Doc. Any time you wanted to collaborate with a new team or adopt a new technology,…
Updated June 22, 2026
Semantic Layer Summit Keynote: What It Takes to Make AI Work in the EnterpriseEvery enterprise AI conversation eventually runs into the same wall. Someone pulls up the output from an agent or a natural language query, and someone else in the room says, “That number doesn't look right.” The AI project doesn't have…
Updated June 18, 2026
A Skill or README Isn’t a Semantic LayerWhy not just give the agent a skill? A bunch of people asked this at this week’s Databricks Data + AI Summit. Write down what “revenue” means, drop the skill next to your data, and skip the semantic layer. I…
Updated June 18, 2026
AtScale’s CPO Luis Maldonado on What It Actually Takes to Make AI TrustworthyAt Snowflake Summit last week, AtScale Chief Product Officer Luis Maldonado sat down with Ravit on The Ravit Show to talk about the announcement everyone at the conference was asking about, and the deeper problem it's designed to solve. The…
Updated June 17, 2026
It’s Got to Be the Semantic Layer, BabyAtScale's Dave Mariani and Snowflake's Carl Perry on why governed semantics, not a smarter LLM, is what makes AI agents trustworthy. For years, business intelligence ran on a human workaround. When two reports disagreed about "revenue," a trained BI analyst…
