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Why Your AI Strategy Is Failing

Every leadership team is arguing about which AI model is best, but that debate is a distraction from the real problem. In this episode, Jeff McMillan, founder of McMillanAI and former head of firmwide AI at Morgan Stanley, breaks down the real bottlenecks behind enterprise AI strategy. He shares why fixing your data matters more than picking a model, why your best AI leader is probably already inside your company, and why AI eliminates tasks rather than entire jobs.

AI Literacy Starts at the Top

AI literacy across 60,000 people starts with the C-suite. In this clip from podcast, Bethany Miles, Chief AI Officer at Advantage Solutions, shares how she built enterprise-wide AI fluency, starting with 10+ hours of hands-on executive training and a CEO coding workshop. What you'll learn in the full episode:→ Why AI literacy has to start at the top before it can scale anywhere else→ How Advantage Solutions redesigned broken processes before automating them→ What to measure beyond adoption (service excellence and time-to-complete)

Introducing ThoughtSpot Spreadsheets on Live Data

Every analyst has a version of this “Monday blues.” A leader pings asking for the quarterly forecast, wants it broken out by region, and needs it for a call in thirty minutes. The fastest way to do this? Pull the data out of your tool, paste it into Excel, and build the report there. Thirty minutes later, you've got the report: three new formula columns, a pivot view summarizing the regional split, and conditional formatting flagging the outliers.

4 Signs Your AI has a Context Problem, Not a Model Problem

Most AI agents can write SQL. The problem is they write it against the wrong definition of revenue, for the wrong team, using the wrong business rules, and you won't catch that in a demo. Before you evaluate a single semantic layer vendor, there are four things worth getting right first. The semantic layer market has never been more crowded. Every major analytics vendor, data platform, and BI tool now claims to have one.

[AgentSpot Showcase Series] - Deal Sherpa Sales Agent

See how AgentSpot can bring real-time support into the sales process. Deal Sherpa pulls together account context, surfaces gaps and risks, and recommends what to do next. See how it works and what it looks like in action. What is AgentSpot? AgentSpot is multiplayer AI for your business. Anyone can build, share, and collaborate with AI agents connected to your company’s data, context, and tools.

[AgentSpot Showcase Series] - Product Decoded Customer Success Agent

Watch how Liz Johnston uses AgentSpot to turn technical product updates into digestible, ready-to-share content for her customers. The Product Decoded agent pulls together key details and creates a Google Doc, branded PDF, and email-ready HTML. One prompt, three deliverables ready to go. What is AgentSpot? AgentSpot is multiplayer AI for your business. Anyone can build, share, and collaborate with AI agents connected to your company’s data, context, and tools.

[AgentSpot Showcase Series] Solutions Engineering Allocation Workflow

See how this AgentSpot workflow takes the manual work out of SE allocation. It looks at the request, region, expertise, and calendars to recommend the right SE for the job. Then it sends the recommendation straight to Slack. What is AgentSpot? AgentSpot is multiplayer AI for your business. Anyone can build, share, and collaborate with AI agents connected to your company’s data, context, and tools.

From Dashboards to AI Agents: Huel's Analytics Journey

You’ve rolled out a modern data stack, built self-service dashboards, and empowered your team to ask their own questions. Job done, right? Not quite. The data landscape is shifting rapidly beneath our feet, which makes it critical to understand how to build your AI for BI platform so you can scale and navigate technology evolutions.

ThoughtSpot + ClickHouse Delivers Agentic Analytics at Scale

Agentic analytics, embedded customer-facing reporting, and everyday business metrics now demand the same thing: performance at massive scale, and answers fast enough that a business user never notices the wait. Most generic databases were never designed for that combination. They assume a small population of analysts writing SQL and query latency measured in seconds, not AI agents and business users asking questions around the clock.

Which AI Analyst Holds Up Best for Your Hard Questions?

Analytics vendors claim their AI answers questions accurately, but almost none of them will show you how they checked. The standard move is a percentage with no denominator: "90%+ accuracy on internal benchmarks." No dataset you can download. No scoring method you can inspect. No competitor runs under the same conditions. You're asked to trust the grade without ever seeing the exam1 We ran the exam in public terms instead.

[AgentSpot Showcase Series] Using AgentSpot to Automate Weekly Customer Status Updates

Every week, ThoughtSpot Engagement Manager MJ Densmore used to spend up to an hour per customer manually pulling notes, digging through Slack, and checking Salesforce — just to write a status update. Now, AgentSpot does it all automatically, pulling from meeting notes, Slack messages, and support cases to generate a concise summary she can review and send in minutes. Watch to see how a quick, single prompt does the work of a full hour.

[Finance Demo] AgentSpot Use Case - Procurement Automation: PR Approvals & Virtual Card Management

The procurement team at ThoughtSpot built two AgentSpot agents to tackle manual, time-consuming workflows — and the results speak for themselves. Agent 1 – Coupa PR Approval Nudger: Automated purchase requisition reminders that once took hours of manual chasing in Coupa and Slack. Approval cycle time dropped from 6.62 days to 2.8 days. Agent 2 – Virtual Card Intelligence: Cross-validates PO and requisition data against Spend Flow to surface budget leakage, flag expiring cards, and send personalized Slack outreach to card owners. All without manual audits.

[Finance Demo] - AgentSpot Use Case - Virtual Card Spend Oversight

Manually cross-validating virtual card data across disconnected systems was a constant pain, until the procurement team built an AgentSpot agent to do it automatically. This video showcases a Virtual Card Intelligence agent that pulls PO and requisition data from Google Drive, cross-validates it against Spend Flow, flags expiring cards and utilization risks across 30/60/90 day bands, and sends personalized Slack outreach to card owners. Plus a full 9-tab Excel report covering KPIs, expiry, utilization, and reconciliation. The best part? This is all done in just 4-5 minutes.

SpotterCode in the Visual Embed Playground: Faster Embedding, No Setup Hassle

Embedding ThoughtSpot into your application just got dramatically faster. SpotterCode is now in the Visual Embed Playground. Ask in plain language (rename an agent, apply a custom theme, configure an embed component), and SpotterCode generates exactly the code you need, right inside the ThoughtSpot app. In this video, see how SpotterCode eliminates the setup friction that slows down every embedded analytics build and what it looks like to go from question to working code in seconds.

Put Your Data to Work with ThoughtSpot in ChatGPT Work

Every organization says it wants self-service analytics, but very few have it. What actually stalls true self-service analytics is the invisible work that has to happen before anyone can ask a data question: the semantic layer, query engine, security model, and analytics app. That work lands on your product and data teams, who are already time-strapped to deliver core features and strategy, and it lands on them again every time a new question, a new tenant, or a new dashboard request arrives.

Introducing SpotterCode in Developer Playground

Imagine handing a new developer an SDK, a stack of docs, and a deadline. They read for twenty minutes, write ten lines, break something, go back to the docs, second-guess a prop name, and try again. Now multiply that by every component they'll embed, every agent, every color scheme, and every project they'll touch. That gap, between "I know what I want this to look like" and "I know the exact syntax to make it happen," is the tax every developer pays on embedded analytics.

Thought Tank: Marketing in the Age of Agents

Join us for a live broadcast of The Thought Tank: Marketing in the Age of Agents. Our host and CMO Micheline Nijmeh sits down with Katie Marcham, SVP Marketing EMEA at ThoughtSpot, to pull back the curtain on what it actually looks like to run a modern marketing organization on live data in one of the most complex, relationship-driven markets in the world. They'll cover the transformation Katie's led over the past year: leaner teams, smarter tools, and a tighter partnership with EMEA sales, all grounded in what the data is showing in real time.

[Finance Demo] - AgentSpot Use Case - Collections Forecast

Every month, finance teams rebuild their collections forecast by hand, copying and pasting from disconnected files and hoping nothing breaks. In this video, we use AgentSpot to build a Collections Forecast Agent that connects to accounting files, NetSuite, and live bookings data to automate the full monthly rebuild, reconcile actuals against forecast, and output a traceable Excel workbook your whole team can work from.

[Product Demo] AgentSpot Use Case - PM Jira Assistant

Writing tickets is the tax every PM pays. You know exactly what needs to get built, then you spend an hour turning it into properly scoped Jira issues with acceptance criteria, labels, and the right epic. AgentSpot does the writing for you. In this video, we use AgentSpot to build a Product Assistant that turns a rough feature idea into fully drafted Jira tickets, pulls in context from your existing backlog so nothing gets duplicated, and files them to the right epic ready for grooming.

[Product Demo] AgentSpot Use Case - Automate Release Notes

Release notes are the thing that always gets written last, usually by whoever has the least context, usually the morning after ship day. Everything you need is already sitting in GitHub, it just isn't in a form anyone outside engineering can read. In this video, we use AgentSpot to build a Release Notes Workflow that reads what's been merged in GitHub, translates the changes into human-readable notes, posts them to your team's Slack channel, and keeps a running Slack canvas so every release stays in one place.

Trust, Tested: What Consumers Really Think About AI in Retail

Retailers are making heavy investments in AI. From interactive virtual shopping assistants to automated supply chain tools, the goal is simple: connect with buyers and drive growth. However, realizing real business value requires bridging a critical trust gap. So why did ThoughtSpot team up with YouGov to survey 4,833 adults across the US and the UK? It all comes back to trust.

AI Changed Everything. Except What Matters.

AI changed the process, but not what matters. In the latest episode of The Data & AI Chief, three authors explore what it takes to lead through the AI era, from scaling innovation to building AI-ready data foundations to keeping humans at the center. This episode features: Linda Hill, Harvard Business School Professor and author of Genius at Scale, on scaling innovation and leading through uncertainty.

[Tutorial] AgentSpot Training Episode 9: How to Get Started on AgentSpot Free

In this video, learn how to set up AgentSpot's self serve free tier from scratch. You'll connect the apps you already work with (Google Workspace, Slack, and more) and authenticate them in a couple of clicks. Plus, you'll build your first agent, one that catches you up on Slack threads so you don't have to. Tip: the more tools you connect, the more context your agent has, and the better it works for you.