The three most important jobs for analytics teams in an AI-first world

(and it’s not context engineering…)

It’s becoming clearer and clearer that LLMs are capable of doing a lot of the heavy lifting that has plagued analysts for decades. Analytics agents can write code faster, dig deeper, and offer flexible access to data for the wider business.

With these activities currently taking up so much of an analytics team’s time, it’s natural to wonder what the role of an analytics team looks like in the future — and even whether there is a role at all.

If this is something you’re thinking about, I want to use this article to make the case that in an AI-first world, the role of the analytics team is going to become even more important by focusing on three universal truths.