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Why a Blog? AI is Changing Analytics
As a PM at Nirvana Insurance, I'm watching AI change data analytics in real time. Here's why I'm writing about it.
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Hey, I'mJake Mendlovic
I am the Director of AI Product Management at Sodali & Co, leading the firm's push to embed AI across stakeholder engagement, shareholder advisory, and corporate governance services.
I build and ship AI-native products end-to-end — writing production software, designing automation pipelines, and enabling teams to move faster using coding agents like Claude, Codex, and Cursor, orchestrators like Zapier and n8n, and productivity tools like Granola and Superwhisper.
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View AllText-to-SQL Was Never a Model Problem
Natural language SQL did not get good because models got smarter. It got good because we started writing down what our data means. Here is the three-layer grounding stack, the eval harness that keeps it honest, and what it means to turn an advisory firm into an intelligence company.
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What I Took Away from Not Another AI Podcast
I was a guest on Not Another AI Podcast with Piyanka Jain and Shanti Greene to talk token optimization. I brought the Nirvana story. They sent me home with better questions.
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View AllA local-first tool that scrapes your X (Twitter) bookmarks via a Tampermonkey userscript and organizes them into a searchable SQLite knowledge base. Uses Whisper (OpenAI's audio/video model) to transcribe saved video content, and Readability extraction for articles — turning your bookmarks into structured, searchable data.
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