Three Data Point Thursday

Agentic databases aren't agentic.

6 hrs ago • Sven Balnojan PhD

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The next $100B data company will be embedded.

You’ve used embedded analytics today and can’t name who built it. That’s not an accident. It’s the sales pitch.

Jul 9 • Sven Balnojan PhD

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Agentic analytics is bullshit. It saves your ass.

Jul 2 • Sven Balnojan PhD

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June 2026

BI must fire its best customer

The data team buys your dashboards, and is the immune system killing anything that makes dashboards optional. BI's only escape is three trades nobody…

Jun 18 • Sven Balnojan PhD

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AI made everyone faster. Your company is still exactly as slow.

What research studies actually say: task gains die at three gates before they reach the P&L. Here's the test for yours.

Jun 11 • Sven Balnojan PhD

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May 2026

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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