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Holistics, then asking in plain words

Dashboards lived in Google Data Studio. I brought in Holistics so the whole team shares one set of metric definitions, kept in code, and everyone gets the same answer. Then I took AI for a test drive on top, because AI only gives good answers when the data underneath is clean.

How it works

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  1. Dashboards in Google Data Studio, plus Google's conversational analytics.

  2. BI as code: version control, teamwork, and one shared set of metric definitions.

  3. Holistics AI vs Google's agent, plus Claude and ChatGPT connected through MCP.

  4. Tables built for AI, so answers come back faster and cheaper.

  5. A bank of test questions to check the answers hold up.

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