Most of the work in building a Data Vault isn't the code. It's the design. Reading metadata, profiling samples, identifying business keys, capturing definitions nobody updates later. We filmed a walkthrough of the IRiS Assistant doing exactly that work. One source table, start to finish: profiled, modelled, definitions captured, production-ready metadata pushed to the repository, in a single conversation. If you've ever sat through the design phase of a Data Vault build, this is worth eleven minutes. The IRiS Assistant is live in beta: https://ignition-data.com/iris-assistant

Anyone else come across this - the efficiency illusion in software engineering? It's the phenomenon of feeling like AI coding is faster but you have to work so much harder mentally to correct the mistakes or verify everything is working. I had this issue just this last weekend - I spent more time testing and checking actual code for a new tool for a website because as fast as AI helped with the code, it kept buggering things up, removing features, adding features then removing copy, removing copy and losing data. Anyway, this week's Data Pro News Podcast explore the AI Paradox - it'a available now on YouTube and where ever you get your Podcasts, just search for the Data Radio Show!

There's been a story doing the rounds this week that an unnamed company blew half a billion dollars in AI tokens in a single month, Uber went through it's AI coding budget in the four months of 2026, Microsoft revoked access to Claude Code for its engineers and both Amazon and Meta have closed down employee driven AI token usage. Which begs the question, what happens now? Well that's what's being explored in our latest Podcast episode. You can have a listen here - https://youtu.be/xPpnEe2TAjk or where ever you get your podcasts from!

This week on our Data Radio Show Podcast, we take a look at the AI Inflection Point. Exploring the significant shift in the Artificial Intelligence landscape, moving away from basic model selection towards a focus on operational reliability and data infrastructure. You can find the Episode on all Podcast platforms now - just search for The Data Radio Show.

Happy Star Wars Day! A couple of years ago, we actually did a podcast on the way the Empire uses data management to keep an iron fisted grip over the Galaxy Far Far away - you can check it out here! And no matter where you are today, may the force be with you! https://youtu.be/AmNuhm-lRZc