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James Aylward

James Aylward

Former Leader of the Opposition, Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island

Jun 17, 2026

28:45
Can you say more about what does that mean to organize your data in a data-like way? What does that sound like? What does that look like? Can you describe it without using the word data?
28:56
The thing is the underlying expertise in a business is often in the brains of the people that walk into the business all the time.
29:05
The way to get to access that expertise on a scalable way is to make sure it's in a way that a computer can read it somehow.
29:13
So if all your stuff is currently on paper or in spreadsheets, putting it into a computer program that locks your data into readable rows and columns is a great way to do it.
29:26
and it doesn't have to be sort of the sort of boring customer contact that's great to get that crm data as well but there are ways that we can bring in written strategy documents now claude can read that or chat gpt can read it and marry it up with your data and tell you whether your strategy makes any sense or not like where are the weak points in your business given your sales data given your customer data and bring that all together into one conversation that happens in english or whatever language that you're is native to you in a browser try have that conversation two years ago you'd have to have a team of data analysts and you go and ask them a question and they come back with something two weeks later and it's kind of what you're looking for but mainly wrong and then you go back again and just the cycle time is insane if you have your data set hooked up to your claude or chat gpt or gemini you're gonna be so much smarter and so much quicker and learn as a company way faster than anybody else can in your segment

14 MINS LATER

44:41
How about for any of the lawyers in the room?
44:45
Yeah.
44:46
it's an internal tool it's inspired by javas but like we've hooked up the snowflake data and also worked out how to bring in other data feeds that complement snowflake plus work out how to add a layer of security around the cloud access to certain data and look at it from different personas within the company to make sure that everybody has the right access of data that's harder than you think because one thing about claude and chat gbt they're very very helpful and they will help to get around any security stuff you put in place so you really need to be very very strict with claude but what happens is you can talk to claude internally and get the answer to any internal question you want to know If you want to know how the sales team's going or what is the best opportunity for us tomorrow based on the data we got yesterday and it spits out every morning to every person, hey, let's keep focusing on X or Y because we're hitting that goal or not hitting that goal right now.
28:20
Can you say more about what does that mean to organize your data in a data lake? Like, what does that sound like? What does that look like? Can you describe it without using the word data?
28:31
The thing is, the underlying expertise in a business is often in the brains of the people that walk into the business all the time.
28:40
The way to get to access that expertise on a scalable way is to make sure it's in a way that a computer can read it somehow.
28:48
So if all your stuff is currently on paper or in spreadsheets, putting it into a computer program that locks your data into readable rows and columns is a great way to do it.
29:01
And it doesn't have to be sort of the sort of boring customer contact.
29:05
That's great to get that CRM data as well, but there are ways that we can bring in written strategy documents.
29:12
Now Claude can read that or ChatGPT can read it and marry it up with your data and tell you whether your strategy makes any sense or not.

15 MINS LATER

44:16
How about [laughing] for, for any of the lawyers in the room?

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