Dex helped my agent cut Snowflake costs by 66% (conservative estimate)
Dex cut my agent’s Snowflake costs by 66%. That’s the conservative estimate. The more idle time you cut, the more you save.
Marco Ciavarella
Blog
Insights on AI agents applied to analytics engineering, product updates, and industry trends from the Exmergo team.
- Before you buy an agentic data platform, build it yourself
Claude Code and DuckDB are all you need to start an agentic analytics project. And dex demo makes it even easier.
Marco Ciavarella
- How Monte Carlo and Dex keep your data healthy
How Dex Enterprise and Monte Carlo help teams keep pipelines healthy, address drift, and turn recurring maintenance into reviewed changes.
Marco Ciavarella
- How to give Claude the context and guardrails to work safely in dbt with Dex skills
Agent skills shouldn't just be markdown files. Dex by Exmergo helps Claude use dbt with an open source analytics engineering CLI
Marco Ciavarella
- How dbt and Dex form the agent-native data stack
Coding SQL is not the problem anymore. The analytics engineering lifecycle is what teams need to manage. dbt and Dex help with that.
Marco Ciavarella
- The Guardrails Are the Product. Running Dex against a live warehouse, with an LLM on the other end
I did not adopt Dex for its features. I adopted it because it refuses things. What follows is what that refusal looked like in production, including where it did not hold.
Dave Anaya
- `dex maintain` as long-term memory for agents doing analytics engineering
How the .dex/ artifacts turn a stateless coding agent into one that remembers what the warehouse looked like last week, and why that is the difference between detecting drift and re-deriving the world every session.
Marco Ciavarella
- How a Team of One Built our Product Analytics Data Warehouse in Just One Week
A team of one built our product analytics warehouse in a week. Here's how a coding agent, real guardrails, and the ETM loop made it safe.
Marco Ciavarella
- The $600 Slack Ping: What Happens When You Point a Coding Agent at Your Warehouse
Autonomous coding agents are running wild on datawarehouses, racking up hundred dollar bills in seconds. Agentic tooling for Analytics Engineering and Data Engineering, like Dex, can mitigate these very real risks.
Marco Ciavarella
- ETL or ELT? How about ETM
For the past decade, the debate has been ETL vs ELT. Extract Transform Load, or Extract Load Transform? But maturing data platforms and advancements in AI have brought a new term to the forefront: ETM. Explore, Transform, Maintain
Marco Ciavarella
Topics we cover
- AI agents applied to analytics engineering
- How data teams use Dex for warehouse exploration, dbt modeling, and drift
- Benchmarks and how we measure agent quality
- Product updates and new feature announcements