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ICYMI - @ssp.sh's latest blog looks at how BI evolved, how dashboards are actually used today, and what survives when AI enters the picture — starting with the foundation that was never really about dashboards in the first place, and ending with the problem nobody of who maintains it all.

What a great week at POSSIBLE. We met with folks managing massive data stacks at scale. With Rill, our customers can talk to their data using AI agents & get trusted, verifiable business insights in mins. If you missed us in Miami, you can catch us at MAU in Vegas. www.rilldata.com/events/mau-2...

Check out the latest version of Rill (0.86). It's packed with two new live connectors for #BigQuery and #DuckLake. Rill now ships a DuckLake live connector, letting you attach a DuckLake catalog and query it directly as an OLAP source for metrics views and dashboards. docs.rilldata.com/notes/0.86

If you’re at #POSSIBLE in Miami, come say hi to @medriscoll.com and the Rill team 👋 (North Tropez Lawn #646). The future of analytics isn’t better dashboards. It’s interactive, real-time answers on top of governed metrics. Let's meet up and geek out about the technology side of #adtech!

Traditional BI tools often treat heavy queries as something to be avoided, relying on caching to keep dashboards responsive. "But when you're using something like @clickhouse.com, there's no need to avoid hitting the dashboard hundreds or thousands of times." - said @medriscoll.com

Modern BI is evolving fast — and the combination of Rill Data + Google Antigravity shows exactly where it’s headed. In this walkthrough, we explore how developers and data teams can use AI agents to build, modify, and scale analytics workflows entirely in code. www.rilldata.com/blog/video-b...

Dhony @dhony.bsky.social · 4mo ago

@medriscoll.com remembers walking down 24th Street in SF and Lukas Biewald turned to him and said: "AI is all that matters. Like, it's all that matters, man." In this episode, he traces the full arc: from an unpaid internship at OpenAI to what he thinks comes next. www.rilldata.com/blog/how-the...

@rilldata.com has been developing a great Metrics-SQL here www.rilldata.com/blog/introdu...

Rill | Introducing Metrics SQL: A SQL-based semantic layer for humans and agents

When we built Rill, we made a bet that metrics – concepts like revenue, MAU, ROAS — are the core primitive for semantic layers. This blog post is a deep technical dive into how Rill's Metrics SQL work...

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Simon Späti 🏔️@ssp.sh · 4mo ago

We've heard it all. BI and dashboards are dead. But every time, only to rediscover its power and resurrection whenever we need grounded data analysis in any enterprise and startup space. www.rilldata.com/blog/ai-rev...

Rill | AI Reveals Why BI Still Matters (Hint: It’s Not Dashboards)

This article looks at how BI evolved, how dashboards are actually used today, and what survives when AI enters the picture — starting with the foundation that was never really about dashboards in the first place, and ending with the problem nobody in the AI hype cycle wants to talk about: who maintains it all.

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Rill users are data engineers, analytics engineers, BI developers, and platform teams — all building data pipelines, defining metrics, and delivering interactive dashboards with Rill. In Rill 0.85, we improved the first mile experience to make getting started with Rill smooth! docs.rilldata.com

How easy is it to answer a question like “what is the best performing campaign?” Rill can get that answer in seconds where other tools might take hours to get to that root cause analysis. We’ll be at POSSIBLE and we’d love to show you the platform in action. www.rilldata.com/events/possi...

Check out what's new in Rill 0.85: ✅ Snowflake live connector - now you can create metrics views directly on Snowflake ✅ Preview mode for Rill Developer - review your dashboards locally before deploying, providing a faster feedback loop during development Learn more: docs.rilldata.com/notes/0.85

Rill will be at #GoogleNext. Agentic business intelligence continues to be our top focus. Using Gemini's CLI + Rill’s MCP you can explore metrics, identify trends, and generate insights without writing queries manually. If you want to see a demo, let’s meet up. geminicli.com/extensions/?...

"We couldn't get people to use it for free, and people openly mocked it," said Lukas Biewald about what would become a $1.7B business, @weightsbiases.bsky.social In the latest episode of Data Talks on the Rocks, Mike talks with Lukas about his journey building one of the seminal startups in AI.

Dashboards aren’t dead—but they’re evolving. AI + metrics layers (like what Rill is building) are shifting us from static BI → conversational analytics. Ask questions. Get answers. No SQL required. The real unlock? Data access for everyone. Mike's full interview 👇 tipsheet.ai/technology/r...

Rill Data CEO Michael Driscoll on agentic analytics

Michael Driscoll would argue that he is like many technology entrepreneurs. The co-founder and CEO of agentic business intelligence (BI) tools provider Rill Data says he has spent his career obsessed ...

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In the latest release of Rill 0.84, we provide an interactive "rill init" command by default, guiding you through project setup step by step. Also, now you can share Canvas dashboard views with external stakeholders without requiring them to log in. Full release notes docs.rilldata.com/notes/0.84

Rill will be at #POSSIBLE2026 in Miami 😎🌴 We can't wait to get together with key decision-makers across the entire marketing ecosystem. Book a meeting and get a personal demo our agentic AI, BI-as-code experience. Go from raw data to interactive dashboards in mins! www.rilldata.com/events/possi...

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Salomon from Drio Tech prompted Claude to "create a PowerPoint presentation with an executive summary of our internal sales data for today's board meeting". The entire process took just minutes & every number in the presentation was correct. Full blog & video demo: www.driotech.io/post/agentic...

In this video, @jonwalls.dev walks through how Rill enables a fully agentic BI workflow using tools like Cursor, local development environments, and modern CI/CD practices — all while delivering instant, production-ready insights.

@medriscoll.com spoke to tipsheet about AI and his agentic analytics company. Topics: * The transition to solutions for humans and agents * What is Conversational BI? * Are APIs going away? * The reasoning behind ‘local-first’ analytics * Agent-to-agent future at scale tipsheet.ai/technology/r...

Rill Data CEO Michael Driscoll on agentic analytics

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Ghanshyam Chodavadiya from SWYM shares why they use Rill with MotherDuck. "Rill lets us encode business context directly into our BI layer. Combined w/ MotherDuck & the Rill MCP client, it gives us flexible data control while powering automatically generated client dashboards & AI-driven insights."

In the latest Rill 0.83 release, now you can generate a full Canvas dashboard directly from an existing metrics view. We also added a new connector for @supabase.com and updated the project status pages making it easier to start exploring your data in Rill. docs.rilldata.com/notes/0.83

Simon Späti 🏔️@ssp.sh · 5mo ago

Guess who loves local-first, code-first analytics tools? 🤖 Claude Code. Claude + Rill can now build a full data stack in seconds – pipelines, database, and dashboards visualizing millions of records – with BI-as-code, on a single machine. Learn more: www.rilldata.com/blog/buildin...

CLI-first is eating development. Email, calendar—they all have CLIs now. Why not your business metrics? For data/analytics engineers building with agents: DuckDB + MotherDuck + Rill give you an #agentfriendly, #localfirst frontend—exact context via SQL and YAML.

Rill | Building an Agent-Friendly, Local-First Analytics Stack with MotherDuck and Rill

The convergence of embedded analytics engines (DuckDB/MotherDuck), declarative BI-as-code (Rill), and AI agent protocols (MCP) is creating a new architecture for business intelligence, one where dashb...

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Rill’s GTM team is growing 🚀 Jay Stevens is our new CRO. Jay has earned a reputation as a commercial leader who transforms businesses of all sizes for growth. Devan Kane joins Rill as Fractional CMO, reuniting with Mike Driscoll to help spearhead the company’s growth strategy.

The Rill GTM team got together in Park City to strategize for 2026! 🚀 We reviewed the product roadmap and had meaningful conversations on how Rill can really make an impact for our customers. And we had some fun too 🥳 PS - we’re hiring! Join us in building the world’s fastest AI-native BI tool!

Check out what's new in Rill 0.82: 👍👎 AI feedback - give thumbs up or thumbs down to score your conversations with Rill's AI agent ℹ️ New status project page - we overhauled the status page so you can easily search, filter & find resources 🎨 New in Canvas dashboards - AI functionality & scatter plots