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The Platinum Layer: Getting Your Data Ready for AI

The Platinum Layer: Getting Your Data Ready for AI5 aug9 min

The platinum layer sits on top of the standard medallion architecture, built specifically to get data ready for LLMs. In this episode, Brick and Landon break down what it takes to build one well. Landon walks through the two foundations that make a platinum layer work: markdown files that give the LLM business context and call out data gotchas, and a modeling approach that goes further than typical BI denormalization. They discuss why AI models need a single grain of data to avoid summing er...