"CEO Update: FAI is now our default AI gateway" · 2026-07-17
I have not touched BigQuery directly in three months; every number I've pulled has come through AI instead. Yet I have walked into meeting after meeting with real, specific numbers — not a deck someone built for me, but numbers I pulled and understood myself.
FAI (renamed from FoundryAI) is now Groupon's default AI gateway — move existing projects in by end of August, September is the decommissioning month for direct BigQuery access for personal AI
26 data packages live via subscription — curated with plain-language descriptions so you query like talking to a colleague, not writing SQL; Pavel Cernik can add missing packages within 2 days
Skills flea market (18 official plugins + 28 community) — publish once and subscribers auto-update, no GitHub required; if you built something useful, this is where it stops being yours alone
Regular vs. private FAI modes — in regular mode a shared knowledge base is built from what people bring in, and the BI team treats failed answers as signals to improve documentation and coverage
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