Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: A Better Job for the Robot
Most analysts I talk to are trying to get AI to produce more reliable numbers. I think that's the wrong job. In our monthly executive report, the code owns every figure, meaning AI can't hallucinate a number. What AI does instead is the one thing no human can: when a number moves, it reads everything we can't hold in our heads at once - every release that month, every related metric, every past investigation and documented caveat from every corner of the business - and works out why. It triages each shift to distinguish if it is a real anomaly, versus something we caused or already know about. No analyst can know everything happening across the business, but AI can. So the report isn't just faster, it's more thorough. And I'm no longer pinging a dozen metric owners with an awkward "hi, how are you?" that we both know I don't mean.
