Three Data Point Thursday

Good AI, great AI

What the fastest AI companies do differently (and why it looks wrong).

May 21 • Sven Balnojan PhD

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March 2026

SaaS instincts suffocate AI products

7 SaaS PM reflexes that shrink AI products—and why data people already think differently.

Mar 26 • Sven Balnojan PhD

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AI tools are the new dashboards

If specificity is zero, value is zero. Onboard the AI tool, or ditch it if you can’t.

Mar 19 • Sven Balnojan PhD

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What comes after analytics

Decision infrastructure. How to get there.

Mar 5 • Sven Balnojan PhD

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February 2026

Dashboards are easy to read. That’s the problem.

A 5-question scorecard for dashboards, decks, and charts—and the three harder formats that turn “understood” into “decided.”

Feb 27 • Sven Balnojan PhD

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Your AI brainstorm is broken

One exercise that turns chatbot lists into ML projects that actually matter.

Feb 19 • Sven Balnojan PhD

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Your AI Agent Isn't Broken. Your Definitions Are.

Someone on your analytics team kept "customer" meaning one thing everywhere. They just left.

Feb 13 • Sven Balnojan PhD

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Good Data, Bad Data

Everyone has data. Almost nobody has power.

Feb 12 • Sven Balnojan PhD

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Default Funded or Default Dead

Why Airbyte raised with 15 months of runway left.

Feb 5 • Sven Balnojan PhD

Collecting or Constructing?

Why your $2M data & AI investment has no moat—and the 3 CEO decisions that would change that.

Feb 3 • Sven Balnojan PhD

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January 2026

Open Source Is a Weapon

When a cloud giant ships “Managed You”: 7 tactics to attack, defend, and build moats

Jan 30 • Sven Balnojan PhD

It's GitHub, Not GitHope

4 open source battlefields. Airbyte picked right. Iceberg picked wrong.

Jan 22 • Sven Balnojan PhD

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