“I work in Business Intelligence. What can intouch do for me?”

One question, asked of a stock install. Nothing here is staged copy — this is the answer the assistant gave, played back.

intouch — assistant
I work in Business Intelligence. What can intouch do for me?

For BI work, InTouch acts as the orchestration and watchdog layer around the stack you already have — it doesn't replace your warehouse or dashboards, it runs the plumbing and tells you when something's off. Concretely:

1. Refresh chains with a memory, not a cron job that fails silently

Extract → load → transform → dependent extract → dashboard refresh, wired as one workflow where each step waits on the last. If step 3 fails, step 4 doesn't publish yesterday's numbers as today's — the chain just stops and you get told.

2. Freshness monitors that catch it before the execs do

A check runs before anyone logs in: did the source file land, is the row count in range, is max(date) actually today, did the fact table grow. You hear about a broken feed at 6am from InTouch, not at 9am from a director.

3. Report distribution

Build the pack, render to Excel/PDF, send to a distribution list on schedule. Tableau extracts can be refreshed or exported directly. Kills the recurring "can you send me that report again" Slack message.

4. Source-to-source reconciliation

Compare the number in the warehouse against the number in the source system nightly, and only message on a mismatch. One of these ends more credibility arguments than a new dashboard does.

5. One-off requests that stop repeating

The ad-hoc query someone asks for every month becomes a scheduled workflow with their name on the distribution list — build it once.

Sources it talks to: SQL (the usual RDBMS list), Snowflake, Databricks, ClickHouse, MongoDB, Cassandra, plus S3, SFTP, HTTP/REST, Excel/CSV, and Google Sheets/Drive. There's also a dataframe tool for joins/aggregation between steps when the transform doesn't belong in SQL.

Want me to build one of these now — say, a freshness check on a specific table, or a scheduled report send? Tell me the source/warehouse and I'll wire it up.

Recorded session — not a live server

It answered like this because it knew who was asking.

The same assistant answers a shop owner about supplier price files and a sysadmin about cron sprawl. Same engine, same tools, same audit trail — sharpened to the person asking.

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