Practitioner Takes
Sharp takes from data and AI practitioners on the context layer, AI governance, and what's actually working in production. Every issue, in one place.
The Context Layer — Knowledge Graph's Second Act
"Knowledge graphs had their moment. Context graphs are the second act — built for the age of AI agents."
Prukalpa Sankar
Co-founder, Atlan
If Intelligence Is Abundant, What Is the Moat?
"Performance is intelligence times context. The labs solved one side. Your enterprise has to solve the other."
Prukalpa Sankar
Co-founder & Co-CEO
The Onboarding Gap is Killing your AI Agents
"By month two, your best human is autonomous. Your best agent is still guessing."
Vivek Dubey
Data & AI Leader
Your Team Isn't Afraid of AI. They're Afraid of Being Wrong About AI.
"What your team's hesitation is actually telling you."
Nandini Tyagi
Customer Experience Manager, Strategic Initiatives
Conceptual Modeling Is the Context Engineering Nobody Is Doing
"The discipline data teams abandoned in the Big Data era is exactly what AI agents need now."
Juha Korpela
Co-founder & Data Modeling Expert
Context Graphs as AI Evaluation Infrastructure
"The Governance Layer Enterprise AI Has Been Missing."
Sandipan Bhaumik
Tech Leader - Data & AI
Metadata Weekly Is Now Context and Chaos (& Cats!)
"The field moved to context engineering. The name finally caught up."
Prukalpa Sankar
Co-founder, Atlan
BI-Ready Is Not AI-Ready
"Your dashboards work. Your governance is solid. Your AI agent still hallucinates."
Vivek Dubey
Data & AI Leader
Gartner D&A 2026: Where the Context Layer Became a Budget Line Item
"Gartner's spending data, analyst predictions, and three days of floor conversations all pointed the same direction."
Tathagata Das Sarma
Data Leader
Data Governance vs AI Governance: Why It's the Wrong Battle
"The risk surface has expanded. The answer is one control plane, not another silo."
Charlotte Ledoux & Vivek Dubey
Data Governance Experts
OpenAI's Frontier Proves Context Matters. But It Won't Solve It.
Frontier validates the enterprise context thesis—yet risks accelerating AI sprawl unless organizations rethink context architecture.
Prukalpa
Co-founder, Atlan
Gartner D&A 2026: The Conversations We Should Be Having This Year
"A field guide to the questions worth debating in the hallways, and a checklist you can keep on your phone."
Tathagata Das Sarma & Vivek Dubey
Data Leaders
The Context Problem Nobody's Fixing in Talk to Data Initiatives (NL > SQL)
What testing natural language-to-SQL on enterprise-scale schemas revealed about production readiness.
Manoj Shanmugasundaram
Data Engineering Leader
The Human Elements of the AI Foundations
"What AI quietly revealed about incentives, culture, and fragile foundations."
Gaurav Ramesh
Director of Engineering
Semantic Layers Failed. Context Graphs Are Next… Unless We Get It Right
"Context graphs are a hot new conversation these days. And yet I feel like I've seen this story before."
Prukalpa
Co-founder, Atlan
The AI Analyst Hype Cycle
"What's Real, What's Vaporware, and What Nobody Wants to Admit."
Marc Dupuis
CTO & Cofounder