Data & InsightsApr 02, 2026 · 10 min read

The data team becomes the agent team

Sofia's analytics org rebuilt itself around agents that ask their own questions.

In conversation with

Sofía Reyes

Head of AI Engineering · Meridian

73%

fewer ad-hoc requests

Meridian

What happens when dashboards stop being delivered and start being interrogated — by an agent, on the team's behalf.

Dashboards are dead artifacts. By the time you open one, the question has moved.

We replaced our weekly review with an agent that interviews the data and presents three surprises every Monday morning.

Half of our analysts now build agents. The other half supervise them. Nobody writes SQL on demand anymore.

Pull quote

"We replaced our weekly review with an agent that interviews the data and presents three surprises every Monday morning."

— Sofía Reyes

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