Connecting an LLM to Your Data Is the 21% Solution

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Data EngineeringConnecting an LLM to Your Data Is the 21% Solution.EREvan Rosa·Sunday, Jul 26, 2026I hear the same question in almost every early conversation: why do I need a platform when I can point Claude at Postgres and start asking questions? Claude wires into Snowflake and Postgres, ChatGPT reaches warehouses over MCP bridges, Gemini sits inside BigQuery. We also now have public numbers on what happens after the demo.

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▪Data EngineeringConnecting an LLM to Your Data Is the 21% Solution.EREvan Rosa·Sunday, Jul 26, 2026I hear the same question in almost every early conversation: why do I need a platform when I can point Claude at Postgres and start asking qu
▪Claude wires into Snowflake and Postgres, ChatGPT reaches warehouses over MCP bridges, Gemini sits inside BigQuery.
▪We also now have public numbers on what happens after the demo.

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Data EngineeringConnecting an LLM to Your Data Is the 21% Solution.EREvan Rosa·Sunday, Jul 26, 2026I hear the same question in almost every early conversation: why do I need a platform when I can point Claude at Postgres and start asking questions? It is a fair question. The connectors are real. Claude wires into Snowflake and Postgres, ChatGPT reaches warehouses over MCP bridges, Gemini sits inside BigQuery. The demo is genuinely impressive. We also now have public numbers on what happens after the demo. The numbers Anthropic measured it on their own analytics workload: "Without skills, Claude's ability to answer analytics questions accurately didn't exceed 21% on our evals." Same model you would connect to your database. Their data, their questions, 21%. The benchmarks agree.

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