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As employees increasingly build their own dashboards and micro-applications directly using LLMs, organizational backlogs are shifting. While end-user conversational tools solve front-end discovery and prototyping rapidly, they introduce fragmentation and destroy data standardization. Central platforms are now needed to step in and retroactively wire back-end data definitions and access control standards into those self-serve assets.

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