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The dashboard era was built for a different consumer. Agents don't work like that. An agent doesn't open a dashboard. It asks questions, chains decisions together, and acts. It needs to understand what a 'customer' means in your business, not just query a table called dim_customer. It needs to know whether the data it's looking at is fresh enough to trust, whether it's allowed to use it, and what happened upstream to produce it.

Fred Brooks told us in 1975 that adding people to a late software project makes it later. Fifty years on, we are relearning that lesson, this time with AI copilots and aggressive migration timelines. Executives see a Copilot demo and assume migration velocity is solved. It is not. AI accelerates the easy 60%. The hard 40% is tribal knowledge, undocumented rules, and stakeholder complexity. No copilot fixes that.