Metadata
- Author: Benn Stancil
- Full Title:: The Context Layer
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://benn.substack.com/p/the-context-layer
- Read date:: 2025-08-29
Highlights
it’s the metrics layer, for fuzzy analytical concepts. And it has the same problem that that idea had: It’d be hard to sell on its own. Every BI tool wants to be the best place to ask questions; they want to make their “AI analyst” the best one; they want to differentiate themselves by having a proprietary agentic loop that can answer questions that nobody else can. And BI tools are unlikely to outsource that, just as they’ve been reluctant to outsource semantic layers to a third party that they can’t control, and that everyone else can use. (View Highlight)