Fast analyst answers are colliding with finance definitions and restricted access.
The architecture must preserve live Snowflake governance while giving analysts answers they can act on without reopening every calculation.
Who you’d be doing this for
“My VP asked why margin fell in the West, and I spent an hour proving which definition we meant.”
Khairun Do · Merchandising Analyst
She prepares weekly category reviews from governed Snowflake data and needs answers before pricing decisions are locked.
What is at stake
A small set of prototype answers used the wrong finance definition, and one exposed restricted margin data. You must weigh analyst speed against definitions and access controls that cannot fail in the final review.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- analyst speed vs restricted-data protection
- natural-language flexibility vs certified definitions
- selection deadline vs costly verification
- warehouse-native precedent vs workbook adoption
Why Sigma Computing
Sigma Assistant and Model Context Protocol sit directly on the customer’s governed warehouse data, making answer quality and access inheritance central to the technical decision.
Written with these in mind
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