Launch notesMay 11, 2026usearcus.ai/journal
The Arcus Journal
Field notes on data, work, & the next decade of analytics
Featured · Strategy
Why your team has 47 dashboards and only checks four.
An editorial field note on dashboard sprawl and the product point of view behind Arcus. Treat it as perspective, not a benchmark report.
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Series · planned
Asking better questions.
A six-part guide to the literal mechanics of asking a useful business question. Less philosophy, more "here are the four words that change the answer."
Ep. 1The four-word reframe
Ep. 2"Compared to what?" matters more than "what?"
Ep. 3Time windows are decisions, not defaults
Ep. 4What "good enough" sounds like
Ep. 5When to stop asking
Ep. 6The questions you'll regret not asking
Series · planned
Build notes.
Technical notes from launch readiness: schema guardrails, SQL validation, tenant isolation, and the product decisions behind warehouse-first setup.
Ep. 1How to review an AI-generated answer
Ep. 2Why validation must happen before execution
Ep. 3What belongs in a tenant semantic layer
Ep. 4How we decide when a connector is ready