🤝 **MotherDuck's Jordan Tigani on Building a Data Warehouse AI Agents Actually Like**

• Theory Ventures talks with MotherDuck CEO **Jordan Tigani** (ex-BigQuery founding engineer, SingleStore alum) about designing databases for agents, not humans.
• Local-to-cloud **DuckDB** workflow: prototype on a laptop, then go to production by simply _changing the database name_ — no rearchitecting required.
• AI agents turned Tigani from an NL-to-SQL skeptic into a believer — models now investigate schemas and test joins like a new analyst, instead of one-shotting queries.
• Key idea: **scoping data to the workflow**, not the whole org, is what makes agent answers trustworthy.

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