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Building a Data Mart with Claude Over MCP, in 20 Minutes

This is a walk-through of one consulting engagement, not a theoretical piece on AI tooling. The brief was small enough…

May 25, 2026

Data Science

Telegram in 2026: Still a Data Source, Now a Real Agent Platform

Most teams still treat Telegram the way they did in 2021: scrape a channel, pull a list, hope the API…

May 22, 2026

Data Engineering

Claude Code on a data team: three rollouts, real numbers, and what we’d do differently

Five engineers on Max plans, two months of receipts, and three rollouts (Fivetran, Metabase, MetaLens) with concrete time and cost…

May 21, 2026

AI for Data

How to Use dbt MCP with Claude Code (and Stop Grepping the Manifest)

How to set up dbt Labs' official MCP server with Claude Code, including a real legacy-project audit story, the read-only…

May 13, 2026

AI for Data

How to Use Fivetran MCP with Claude Code (and Stop Clicking Through Connector UIs)

How to set up Fivetran's official MCP server with Claude Code, with a real client case study (HelpScout to BigQuery),…

May 11, 2026

AI for Data

How to Use MCP Toolbox for Databases with Claude Code: BigQuery Setup, Tools, and a Read-Only Production Pattern

Practical guide to wiring Google's MCP Toolbox for Databases into Claude Code for BigQuery work. Setup commands, the .mcp.json block,…

May 8, 2026

AI for Data

How to Use Metabase MCP with Claude Code: A Practical Walkthrough

A practical walkthrough of using Metabase MCP with Claude Code on real client projects: dashboard audits in seconds, SQL from…

Apr 28, 2026

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