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The Myth of Self-Service Analytics, and How Agentic AI Changes That
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The Myth of Self-Service Analytics, and How Agentic AI Changes That

Self-service analytics was a myth. Until now. Discover how Agentic AI replaces complex BI tools with autonomous, instant dashboard creation.

March 4, 2026·Marco Ciavarella
Viz: Your Semantic Layer, Visualized

Viz: Your Semantic Layer, Visualized

Viz is now the visualization agent for your semantic layer. Its first semantic connector is the dbt Semantic Layer, and it is live today.

September 23, 2026Marco Ciavarella
DuckDB too big for the warehouse

Before you buy an agentic data platform, build it yourself

Claude Code and DuckDB are all you need to start an agentic analytics project. And dex demo makes it even easier.

September 15, 2026Marco Ciavarella
Exmergo Dex + Monte Carlo

How Monte Carlo and Dex keep your data healthy

How Dex Enterprise and Monte Carlo help teams keep pipelines healthy, address drift, and turn recurring maintenance into reviewed changes.

September 11, 2026Marco Ciavarella
dbt, Exmergo Dex and Claude Code

How to give Claude the context and guardrails to work safely in dbt with Dex skills

Agent skills shouldn't just be markdown files. Dex by Exmergo helps Claude use dbt with an open source analytics engineering CLI

September 9, 2026Marco Ciavarella
Exmergo Dex + dbt

How dbt and Dex form the agent-native data stack

Coding SQL is not the problem anymore. The analytics engineering lifecycle is what teams need to manage. dbt and Dex help with that.

September 2, 2026Marco Ciavarella
Google Big Query, Dagster and Exmergo Dex

The Guardrails Are the Product. Running Dex against a live warehouse, with an LLM on the other end

I did not adopt Dex for its features. I adopted it because it refuses things. What follows is what that refusal looked like in production, including where it did not hold.

August 17, 2026Dave Anaya
Dex Maintain Agent Memory

`dex maintain` as long-term memory for agents doing analytics engineering

How the .dex/ artifacts turn a stateless coding agent into one that remembers what the warehouse looked like last week, and why that is the difference between detecting drift and re-deriving the world every session.

August 16, 2026Marco Ciavarella
Dex Transform - Exmergo

How a Team of One Built our Product Analytics Data Warehouse in Just One Week

A team of one built our product analytics warehouse in a week. Here's how a coding agent, real guardrails, and the ETM loop made it safe.

July 21, 2026Marco Ciavarella
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The $600 Slack Ping: What Happens When You Point a Coding Agent at Your Warehouse

Autonomous coding agents are running wild on datawarehouses, racking up hundred dollar bills in seconds. Agentic tooling for Analytics Engineering and Data Engineering, like Dex, can mitigate these very real risks.

July 15, 2026Marco Ciavarella
explore-showcase

ETL or ELT? How about ETM

For the past decade, the debate has been ETL vs ELT. Extract Transform Load, or Extract Load Transform? But maturing data platforms and advancements in AI have brought a new term to the forefront: ETM. Explore, Transform, Maintain

July 13, 2026Marco Ciavarella
Exmergo Viz - I asked GPT to pick a random number between 1 and 100 (sample 10k)

I asked GPT to pick a random number between 1 and 100

I asked GPT to pick a random number between 1 and 100. The results mirrors human biases with some striking exceptions.

May 29, 2026Marco Ciavarella
The Dashboard is Dead. Long Live the AI Dashboard

The Dashboard is Dead. Long Live the AI Dashboard.

The dashboard is dead. Long live the AI dashboard. Stop staring at static charts and start chatting with your data.

April 9, 2026Marco Ciavarella
In Defense of the Pie Chart: Why We Should Rethink Its Reputation. Is the pie chart inherently flawed, or just the victim of systemic misuse? Read why we're defending it and how AI fixes data visualization.

In Defense of the Pie Chart: Why We Should Rethink Its Reputation

Is the pie chart inherently flawed, or just the victim of systemic misuse? Read why we're defending it and how AI fixes data visualization.

April 7, 2026Marco Ciavarella
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Kill the Build Process: Introducing Dashboard Mode for Exmergo Viz

Stop wrestling with complex menus. Introducing Dashboard Mode by Exmergo: turn a single prompt into a full data dashboard instantly.

March 27, 2026Marco Ciavarella
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The Rise of AI Dashboards: How Non-Technical Users Can "Vibe Report" Data Analytics With Agents

The barrier to entry for data analytics is disappearing. While AI tools like Claude Code allow users to "vibecode" marketing pages and software, data analytics has lagged due to issues with trust and scalable architecture. Exmergo Viz solves this by combining a fleet of Data Analysis Agents with robust Data Lakehouse infrastructure, allowing non-technical users to generate accurate, high-volume data dashboards simply by asking questions.

March 16, 2026Marco Ciavarella
Build AI Dashboards Just by Talking to Your Data

Build AI Dashboards Just by Talking to Your Data

Stop wrestling with BI tools. With Exmergo Viz, talk to your data to build stable AI dashboards. No code needed!

March 10, 2026Marco Ciavarella
Stop Trying to Vibe Code Your Data Warehouse

Stop Trying to Vibe Code Your Data Warehouse

Don't let AI break your data warehouse. See why Agentic AI is better suited for last-mile data visualization and discover the power of Exmergo Viz.

March 6, 2026Marco Ciavarella