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Insights on data preparation, taxonomy standardization, and making enterprise AI actually work in production.

Strategy January 2025

Platform Wars Don't Matter: Why the Databricks vs. Snowflake Debate Misses the Point

Your infrastructure choice won't save you from bad data. Here's why most enterprise AI projects fail regardless of platform - and what actually matters.

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Databricks January 2025

Before You Buy Databricks: The Data Preparation Layer Nobody Talks About

Databricks is exceptional infrastructure for AI systems. But it assumes your data is already clean, structured, and semantically coherent. Here's what happens when that assumption fails.

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Case Study January 2025

The £250,000 Mistake: When RAG Projects Fail After Demo Success

The demo works perfectly. The board approves funding. Six months later, the project is quietly shelved. Here's why RAG implementations fail - and the hidden cost of skipping data preparation.

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Energy Sector January 2025

Energy M&A Is Broken: Why Asset Taxonomies Derail Integration

Traditional oil & gas companies are acquiring renewable portfolios at unprecedented scale. But they can't integrate what they can't classify. Here's why energy sector M&A fails at the data layer.

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Technical Deep Dive January 2025

The Taxonomy Gap: Why Enterprise Codesets Need Formal Specifications

Most organizations rely on informal classification systems that exist only in institutional knowledge and undocumented Excel files. Here's why that breaks enterprise AI - and what formal taxonomies look like.

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Snowflake January 2025

Refining the Fuel: Making Snowflake Cortex AI-Ready

You bought a world-class engine. Snowflake Cortex provides exceptional AI infrastructure. But engines need refined fuel, and your organizational data isn't AI-ready yet.

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BigQuery January 2025

Beyond the Infrastructure: Why BigQuery RAG Needs Human-in-the-Loop Prep

BigQuery processes petabytes serverlessly. Gemini integration brings AI directly to your data warehouse. But scale doesn't fix semantic problems, and SQL won't clean your taxonomies.

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Agency Strategy January 2025

Why AI Agencies Outsource RAG Data Prep (And Why You Should Too)

Your ML engineers are your most expensive resource, and they hate data plumbing work. Here's the cost arbitrage that makes outsourcing data preparation a strategic advantage.

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Energy Sector January 2025

Digital Twins Need Clean Data: Why Your Plant's AI Project Is Stalling

IoT sensors + messy taxonomies = failed digital transformation. Energy operations need standardized asset classifications before AI can optimize anything.

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