A curated list of articles from data teams building analytics agents.
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- Anthropic — How a team makes self-service analytics work. Skills, metric definitions, documentation, and evaluations (Jun 2026), including how the team keeps them current as data models change.
- OpenAI — Inside an in-house data agent. The architecture behind context preparation, retrieval, permissions, and evaluations (Jan 2026).
- Ramp — Building one around an existing dbt project. SQL and Jinja examples for context tables and domain documentation (Oct 2025).
Read an article directly from the right column, or click a company for its full reading notes. Dates are publication dates; stacks reflect what the authors used at the time.
- Giving the agent context: Ramp, Gorgias, AngelList, BlaBlaCar, Meta, OpenAI.
- Testing answers and model changes: Gorgias, Anthropic, Ramp, LinkedIn, Meta, Uber.
- Fixing mistakes and keeping context current: GitHub, Gorgias, Meta, Replit.
- Reducing cost and latency: Gorgias, Vercel.
- Getting people to use it: Alan, Faire, Ramp, LinkedIn, Meta.
Product engineering, technical studies, and benchmarks that complement the internal builds.
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Cube: Building an Agentic Analytics Harness ·
Vendor implementation. Errors, result limits, and permission-aware tools. Stack and notes. -
Omni: Benchmarking Omni’s agentic analytics harness ·
Vendor implementation. Testing quality, latency, and cost on a vendor’s analytics workload. Stack and notes. -
Cassis: A blank beats a guess ·
Vendor implementation. Building the first context from existing data assets, with an open-source bootstrap kit. Stack and notes. -
Cassis: Context engineering for analytics agents ·
Vendor implementation. How we structure tables, metrics, and business rules so an agent can find what it needs. Stack and notes. -
Benchouse: The Analytics Agent Benchmark ·
Benchmark. Compare accuracy, completeness, restraint, and cost per question across analytics agents. Notes.
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