Six questions for an AI analyst
I put the assistant through six questions on demo data. A number it must prove, comparisons it must date, a headline it must catch, a query no widget can express, and a request it must refuse.
Krishna Barri
I build data platforms and AI systems where every number can be checked. By day I lead analytics and AI for a 15-location med spa group; this site is where I write about making that trustworthy: what the AI may build, when it must refuse, and how its work is checked against real numbers. The projects and the resume live here too.
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I asked the AI for a revenue dashboard
Eleven plain sentences on demo data became an executive dashboard. The walkthrough, the specifications behind each widget, and the requests it narrowed or refused.
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Where trusted numbers come from
A dashboard number is the last inch of a long pipeline. What actually happens between an operational system's API and a figure an operator can check, told from production.
Selected work
All projectsLisa, an AI analyst with a refusal path
An in-product assistant that drafts dashboard widgets and answers analytical questions from governed data models. It never computes a figure; a deterministic engine does, and questions it cannot answer safely get a clear refusal instead of an improvised number.
AI-built widgets parity-tested against hand-built ones, to the cent
One warehouse over the whole business
Point of sale, accounting, payroll, ad platforms and web traffic landed into a single dbt-modeled warehouse, fed by nightly API pulls and a live webhook feed with deletion reconciliation.
about 1.3 million invoice lines; ingestion reconciled to 99.87% against source
A commission engine that reconciles
Tiered, rule-driven commission computation at invoice-line grain, reconciled line by line against the amounts actually paid. The reconciliation surfaced six-figure discrepancies traced to individual rate-configuration defects.
every amount traces to the invoice line and the rule that produced it