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EPISODE · Jun 12, 2026 · 25 MIN

Can You Run Your BI on AI?

from The Dashboard Effect · host Brick Thompson, Jon Thompson, Caleb Ochs, Landon Ochs

Everyone's asking the same question: why can't I just run all my business intelligence through AI? In this episode of The Dashboard Effect, Brick and Landon break down the real answer. You probably can, but only if your data foundation is built for it.They cover where AI analytics fit alongside traditional Power BI, why a strong medallion architecture is the difference between reliable answers and confident wrong ones, and the practical engineering that makes natural language query trustworthy. They also dig into rising token costs, vendor lock-in, and how to decide what belongs in a dashboard versus a chat window.If you run a data-driven business and you're weighing how far to push AI into your reporting stack, this one is for you.Subscribe for more conversations on data, dashboards, and getting real value from your BI.About Blue Margin - We build and manage the data foundation that turns scattered systems into reliable, AI-ready reporting, so your team gets trustworthy answers without the overhead of an internal data team.Learn more: https://www.bluemargin.com/

Everyone's asking the same question: why can't I just run all my business intelligence through AI? In this episode of The Dashboard Effect, Brick and Landon break down the real answer. You probably can, but only if your data foundation is built for it. They cover where AI analytics fit alongside traditional Power BI, why a strong medallion architecture is the difference between reliable answers and confident wrong ones, and the practical engineering that makes natural language query trustwor...

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