I Wish I’d Had This Ten Years Ago

How agentic analytics is changing the game for every analyst who’s ever burned the midnight oil cleaning data.

If you’re a data analyst, you’ve probably had one of those nights.

You know the kind: half-eaten takeout on your desk, your fourth cup of coffee gone cold, and 80,000 rows deep into a dataset that refuses to cooperate. The labels are inconsistent, the dates are in four formats, the categories are a mess, and the boss wants the executive dashboard yesterday. And somewhere in the back of your mind, you’re thinking, I love this work… but does it have to be this hard?

I’ve been there more times than I can count.

The Hidden Cost of Loving the Work

I’ve spent my career in analytics, starting as a hands-on analyst to now leading product at Savant. And while the tools have evolved, the grunt work hasn’t always kept up. I’ve manually cleaned hundreds of thousands of rows, standardized thousands of job titles, fought losing battles against fuzzy matching logic, and wasted entire weekends trying to pull structured insights out of unstructured surveys and PDFs.

When I was younger, I’d tell myself, it’s not so bad when you’re doing what you love. But let’s be honest: Love shouldn’t mean endless Ctrl+F, data formatting rage, or praying your VLOOKUP doesn’t break halfway through a client deliverable.

I used to joke with friends that analysts don’t sleep — we just nap between bad joins and edge cases.

Finally, A Real Solution

That’s why I’m so excited, personally, professionally, and emotionally, about the Savant Summer 2025 Release.

For the first time, I feel like we’ve built the tool I always wished I’d had. We call it the Agentic Analytics Suite™, and it’s more than just a shiny set of features. It’s a real assistant. A team of AI agents built specifically for analysts. Not data scientists, not engineers, but us. The people in the trenches, wrangling messy, inconsistent, hard-to-define data every single day.

These aren’t generic chatbots or vague automation features. These are purpose-built agents designed to attack the exact tasks that used to steal our nights and weekends:

• The Fuse Agent solves fuzzy matching like a human would. It knows that “HOA” and “Homeowners Association” are the same thing. No tuning thresholds, no sweating over similarity scores.
  
• The Shine Agent automatically cleans and standardizes your data, so no more late-night regex magic just to get your categories aligned.
  
• The Infer Agent fills in missing data and enriches it, connecting the dots faster than we ever could manually.
  
• The Glean Agent does the thinking we always wished a tool could do, surfacing trends, context, and hidden patterns, like why your top product’s sales are dropping.
  
• The Vision Agent pulls structured insights from PDFs and images — the kinds of sources we used to ignore because extracting them was just too painful.
  
• The Stylus Agent auto-documents your workflows so you don’t have to. It even batch-generates descriptions overnight. That’s right, your work now wakes up with documentation.

And they’re all powered by our Intelligence Graph™, which actually learns your logic and preferences over time. It’s like having a super analyst in your corner, getting smarter with every workflow.

This Is Personal

I can’t tell you how many deliverables I submitted after 14 hours of manual labor, knowing they weren’t as insightful or accurate as they could’ve been. Not because I didn’t care, but because I was running on fumes and eye drops. With agentic analytics, that entire class of pain just… disappears.

You get to think again. To analyze. To focus on what matters: generating insights, telling stories, and solving problems. Not fighting with CSVs and dirty data.

Honestly, I wish I’d had this a decade ago. It would’ve saved me countless late nights. It would’ve made my work sharper. It might’ve even saved a few personal relationships that didn’t survive the all-nighters.

A Message to My Fellow Analysts

If you’re an analyst reading this — whether you’re new in the field or a veteran still carrying the scars of bad Excel merges — I see you. And I promise: it doesn’t have to be this hard anymore.

Agentic Analytics is here. Not just at Savant, but as a new way of working. It’s faster. It’s smarter. It’s built for us. And we’re only getting started.

Here’s to fewer all-nighters, better insights, and more time doing what we actually love.