"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 FoundryAI) is now the default AI gateway — install it, use it for every new project, migrate existing projects by end of August
Direct BigQuery access for personal AI is being decommissioned in September; new raw-BQ requests only approved in genuine edge cases FAI cannot support
Skills 'flea market' — publish your own skills/agents so other teams can subscribe and auto-update, rather than keeping them siloed on GitHub
Shared knowledge base learns from failures: when someone can't get a good answer, BI team treats it as a signal to improve documentation or expand coverage