The Joe Reis Show · 2026-06-11 · 52 min
In this episode, I sit down with Prukalpa Sankar, the founder of Atlan, to discuss the missing piece that makes artificial intelligence actually useful in the enterprise: context. We dive deep into building the "second brain" of a company, the reality of agent development, and how to transition a traditional business into an AI-native organization. If you're looking to understand why your AI agents are getting abandoned in testing hell or how the roles of data and engineering are fundamentally shifting, this is the conversation for you. As always, we keep it practical and grounded. No hype, just education from the front lines of data architecture. What an Enterprise Context Layer Actually Is (Prukalpa's new article): Timestamps 01:15 - The missing half of AI: Contextual intelligence 02:15 - Reverse engineering business context and the second brain 05:06 - Escaping testing hell and hitting the 80% accuracy threshold for agents 07:54 - Simulating context for analytics use cases 11:34 - Does data quality matter for AI agents?
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