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MotherDuck · Practitioner Series

We polled the top AI + Data leaders at the fastest-growing companies so you don't have to.

From agents to context and what's being run in production.

Free 8 page report of findings, correlations, and recommendations for a fast-moving data + analytics landscape.

What's actually in it

Two of the findings, as they appear in the report. Every chart is cut by role and company size, and each section ends with a move you can take back to your own team.

Finding · The tool mix

Which AI tools do teams use regularly for data work?

Multi-select · sums > 100%

Agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Devin)
86%
General-purpose chat assistants
63%
AI built into warehouse / data platform
39%
Internal or custom-built AI tooling
35%
AI features built into BI tools
31%
Finding · Agent access

What agents are allowed to do with production data

Run reads

52% autonomous; 48% human in the loop or not allowed

Write / Transform

48% with guardrails; 52% not allowed

Schema / Perms

21% with guardrails; 79% not allowed

8 pages

Findings, correlations, and recommendations.

50 : 50

Hands-on builders and the leaders who set their policy.

4 moves

Sequenced from this week to this budget cycle.

5 weeks

In the field, Jul 29 to Aug 31, 2026.

Seven sections, one argument

01

The people already living in your future

Who answered, and why their setup is a preview of yours.

02

Adoption is settled: everyone codes with AI now

The debate is over. What remains is trust, demand, and context.

03

Trust is moving faster than policy

Who ships AI code without full review, and what agents may touch.

04

Agents are already querying your data

Usage is running ahead of the infrastructure built for it.

05

The bottleneck isn't the model. It's context

Where AI actually fails in data work. It's not hallucination.

06

The correlations are a to-do list

Four relationships in the data that read as one posture.

07

Do these four things before the next model drops

The whole index compressed into one sequence, this week through this budget cycle.

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