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 11, 2026
How Anthropic’s AI Accuracy Went from 21% to 95%Anthropic's data science and engineering team runs its internal analytics on Claude, and this week, they published the accuracy figures. Without a semantic layer, the answers were right 21% of the time. With one, accuracy improved to 95%, and some…
Updated June 11, 2026
Power BI Was Built as a Client. Stop Using It as a Foundation.Microsoft wants to own your semantics. We built the universal layer that keeps them yours. Power BI is a strong BI client. It was never an enterprise semantic layer, and the gap between those two jobs is now showing up…
Updated June 10, 2026
Your AI Isn’t Expensive. It’s Guessing.Inside a Tier 1 bank's $9-million-a-year AI rediscovery tax, and the architectural fix that cut compute costs by as much as 21,903x. Every time an analyst at a Tier 1 bank asks, "What was revenue in the Northeast last quarter?"…
Updated June 9, 2026
A Tech Power Player in the Year the Semantic Layer Broke ThroughChris Lynch has been saying the same thing for years. The market just caught up. For years, I’ve been a board member of AtScale, and Chris Lynch said the same thing with each meeting: AI is changing everything for semantic…
Updated June 4, 2026
Why Semantics, Not Metadata, Are the Key to Business Context for AIFive queries. $17.93 with an unguided LLM. Less than a tenth of a cent with a semantic layer. That 21,000x cost gap, measured by the commercial banking division of a Tier 1 multinational bank, is what happens when AI has…
Updated June 3, 2026
A Guide to Semantic Layers for Snowflake CoCo and CoWorkHow Snowflake Semantic Views reach CoWork, CoCo, Power BI, and Excel without leaving the platform. At Snowflake Summit 26, Snowflake renamed Cortex Code to CoCo and turned Snowflake Intelligence into CoWork, a personal agent for every knowledge worker. The headline…
Updated June 1, 2026
The Real Cost of Data Architecture Technical Debt (And How It Spreads Across Your Business)The cost of "good enough" data architecture won't hit your business all at once. That's what makes it so insidious. When Brian Jones, Senior Director of Data Services at Papa Johns, joined the company, he inherited exactly this kind of…
Updated May 28, 2026
Snowflake Just Popped 35%. We’re Not Surprised. And in a Few Days, You Won’t Be Either.Kevin McLaughlin at The Information had a piece this week we've been passing around the office. Snowflake is up 35% on the quarter. Salesforce is down 30% on the year. Kevin makes a strong case that the gap between those…
Updated May 27, 2026
Marc Benioff on the Importance of Semantic Layers to SaaSThe CEO of Salesforce went on All-In and called the semantic layer the key to SaaS company survival. Here's why he's right, and what most SaaS companies are getting wrong. Marc Benioff went on the All-In podcast last week and…
