InterWorks Blog Roundup — August 2026
Another month, come and gone. Jeez, and what a month it was. In my personal life, I absolutely will not miss August 2026. Sayonara, arrivederci, adios to that accursed month. The “-ber” months are here, and I for one am grateful. In my professional life, however, August really wasn’t that bad of a month. We’ve […]
From Chaos to Confidence: How Do You Know If Your Data Transformation Is Working?
In Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of this series, I made the case that data transformation is a leadership challenge first and a technology challenge second, and that the organizations that get it right are the ones that invest as much in the people side of the journey as the platform side. We […]
How to Talk So Claude Will Listen: A Beginner’s Guide to AI Prompting
If you’ve ever typed something into Claude and gotten back a response that was technically “correct” but not at all what you meant, welcome to the club. It’s one of the most common questions I get from folks who are new to using AI in their work. After spending time working with Claude, I’ve learned […]
Built with AI, Refined with Feedback: Rebuilding an IW Gives Back Dashboard in Sigma
This July, InterWorks held its first company-wide Volunteer Week, giving teams around the world an opportunity to spend time supporting causes that matter to their local communities. Because this was the first time we had organized the event across the company, we wanted to understand what participation looked like. We planned a survey to capture […]
How I Went from Data Scientist to Software Developer
I describe my previous job as “wildly unfulfilling.” My work didn’t feel like it was appreciated or mattered much. With hopes of finding something better, I brushed back up on my web development skills that I learned back in high school. Along the way, I did some online classes on data, and this led me […]
Why Most Snowflake Customers Aren’t Ready for AI Agents (and How to Fix It)
An AI agent connected to Snowflake will answer almost any question put to it. Whether that answer is grounded in something real, or in whatever data the agent could reach with the least friction, is a separate question, and for most organizations today it hasn’t been asked. Some call this a context layer problem, others […]
Snowflake CoWork: What Is It and How Can I Use It?
Snowflake CoWork is the current name for what was, until June 2026, called Snowflake Intelligence. The rebrand wasn’t just a new label: The product expanded at the same time, from a chat window for asking questions about your data into a personal work agent. More importantly, its intended audience expanded right along with it: CoWork […]
Why We Built PE Intelligence: AI-Ready Fund Analytics on Snowflake and Sigma
Every private equity firm we speak to runs some of the most sophisticated investment operations in financial services, and almost all of them do their quarterly reporting in Excel. A senior analyst spends three to five weeks each quarter pulling data from the fund administrator, the portfolio companies’ accounting systems, the property manager and the […]
How to Build a Fast and Resource-Optimized Dashboard in Databricks
There’s a shift happening in analytics that I’ve been watching closely. The ask used to be “Can you build a dashboard?” which has now morphed into “Can you build a dashboard that’s fast, cost-efficient, scalable and doesn’t quietly drain our compute budget every time someone opens it?” As the amount of tools and resources available […]
Breaking Down Typical Platform Migration Costs
Let’s talk about money. Well, not really, I won’t present and Euros or Dollars here. Migration costs change from month to month, curating the numbers game is fairly impossible right now. But we can talk about, what money arguments to consider. Because let’s face it: Every tool or platform migration we have ever done and […]