Instead of manual survey design, provide an AI with a list of hypotheses and context documents. It can generate a complete questionnaire, the platform-specific code file for deployment (e.g., for Qualtrics), and an analysis plan, compressing the user research setup process from days to minutes.
Before diving into SQL, analysts can use enterprise AI search (like Notion AI) to query internal documents, PRDs, and Slack messages. This rapidly generates context and hypotheses about metric changes, replacing hours of manual digging and leading to better, faster analysis.
AI tools connected to GitHub allow non-technical roles to conduct "forensic investigations" of a codebase. By prompting an AI, they can generate a full timeline of commits and PRs for a specific feature, providing ground-truth context during business incidents without needing engineering help.
After running a survey, feed the raw results file and your original list of hypotheses into an AI model. It can perform an initial pass to validate or disprove each hypothesis, providing a confidence score and flagging the most interesting findings, which massively accelerates the analysis phase.
AI developer environments with Model Context Protocols (MCPs) create a unified workspace for data analysis. An analyst can investigate code in GitHub, write and execute SQL against Snowflake, read a BI dashboard, and draft a Notion summary—all without leaving their editor, eliminating context switching.
With AI, codebases become queryable knowledge bases for everyone, not just engineers. Granting broad, read-only access to systems like GitHub from day one allows new hires in any role (product, design, data) to use AI to get context and onboard dramatically faster.
To enable AI tools like Cursor to write accurate SQL queries with minimal prompting, data teams must build a "semantic layer." This file, often a structured JSON, acts as a translation layer defining business logic, tables, and metrics, dramatically improving the AI's zero-shot query generation ability.
Using plain-English rule files in tools like Cursor, data teams can create reusable AI agents that automate the entire A/B test write-up process. The agent can fetch data from an experimentation platform, pull context from Notion, analyze results, and generate a standardized report automatically.
