About the Role
For twenty years, "using the data" meant a person opening a dashboard and clicking until the number showed up.
That's ending. The thing asking the question now is often an agent — a salesperson's AI fetching its own answer, a developer's agent interrogating build history from inside the product. The dashboard was the interface built for humans. What comes next has to work for machines and humans at once, and almost no one has architected a data p