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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...

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!

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...

@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...

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 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/?...

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...

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...

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...

@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...

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

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’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!

ICYMI the latest Data Talks on the Rocks episode - Wes McKinney, creator of Pandas, explains his unexpected switch from Python to Go for new projects. His reason: AI coding agents fundamentally changed the trade-offs that made Python dominant for the last 15 years. Learn more datatalks.rilldata.com

ICYMI - Simon Spati interviewed Coinbase & Fresha and shares a common pattern - choose @starrocks.bsky.social when joins are key to your analytics. If you want a real-time BI tool designed to benefit from StarRocks’ real-time query performance, check out Rill. www.rilldata.com/blog/why-coi...

Our friends at Twing Data built a lightweight dashboard for AWS cost monitoring using Rill for AWS CUR data. A few key Rill features do most of the heavy lifting: 1. Automatic ingestion from S3: 2. Partition-aware updates: 3. ClickHouse under the hood Learn more: blog.twingdata.com/p/aws-cost-m...

ICYMI - on a recent Joe Reis podcast, Mike Driscoll shares insights on the "shape" of analytics, debating whether conversational interfaces will replace dashboards or simply complement them. Links below: YouTube - www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEIQ... Spotify - creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

Many users have requested the ability to share AI conversations with others. With Rill 0.81, now you can send a secure link and other users can see exactly what you saw and pick up where you left off. We've also added support for Claude as your preferred AI provider. docs.rilldata.com/notes/0.81

Today, I dig into the details of StarRocks and how it is gaining traction in the real-time database world. DWH-like #joins and fast retrieval from a #Lakehouse-native data architecture, without additional data engineering work to persist and ingest data. www.ssp.sh/blog/starro...

Amazing talk about AI and the future of data visualization. @medriscoll.com argues why dashboards won't go away (can condense so much information you'd need 10 prompts) and also certain numbers you don't want to constantly prompt. E.g. speed on your car, you don't want to ask every 10 seconds 🙂

Our friends at Twing Data set out to build something simple: point a dashboard at S3, automatically ingest AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) files, and instantly get a useful set of dashboards. The whole thing is open source. Post: blog.twingdata.com/p/aws-cost-m... Repo: github.com/Twing-Data/a...

Another big feature in Rill 0.80 is the AI Developer Agent in Rill Developer 🪄 The AI agent is your developer assistant, helping you model data, create and edit Rill project files, and build Rill projects. Give it a try and let us know your experiences! Learn more: docs.rilldata.com/notes/0.80

What if your entire data stack could be expressed as a single function? run_stack(serve(transform(ingest))) Declarative data stacks: declare what you want, let the system figure out how. Same shift we saw with Terraform.

Thanks to the ~50 founders and execs who gathered last night for a live reading and candid Q&A of Ari Paparo’s book on Google. It was great to hear insights directly from folks who know how modern advertising really works. aripaparo.com/yield-the-book