Prompting BI is where business intelligence and prompt engineering meet. It's a space for dialogue on navigating the ever-changing world of BI through AI. I'm Tommy Puglia, Microsoft MVP (2019-2025) and Power BI consultant, writing for the Power BI and Fabric professionals figuring out how to use generative AI well.
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Build the Thing That Creates the Thing
September 16, 2026
Stop prompting for the same notebook edit. Build the executor: an agent, its skills, and the context it reads, in a harness that reaches Fabric and Power BI.
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Don't Hire a Senior to QA the Agent
September 14, 2026
Hand agents to people who can't interrogate the output and you haven't scaled your team. You've built a review queue and staffed it with your architect.
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You Don't Have an AI Strategy. You Have AI Theater.
September 9, 2026
The intake test I run on every new skill, MCP server, and harness before it touches client work.
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Governance Pillars 3 and 4: Write the Contract Before You Hire the Watchdog
September 2, 2026
Accountability and culture are where governance gets hard. The data contract that gives an agent something real to enforce, plus a 30-day plan.
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The Four Pillars of Data Governance (and the Agent That Reports to Each) - Part 1
August 31, 2026
Enablement and promotion are the first two governance pillars. What actually lives in each, what doesn't, and the agent job to hire under both.
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Agents Raise the Floor and Lower the Ceiling
August 28, 2026
Hand a DAX agent to someone who never learned filter context and you make them productive while capping how far they can go. Prove the fundamentals first.
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Hard Data, Soft Data: The Layer Your AI Agent Is Missing
August 26, 2026
Your semantic model is only half your data. Why soft data, the decision logs and business context behind your tables, decides if AI agents work.
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AI Made Your Center of Excellence Bigger. Did It Get Better?
August 24, 2026
AI can flood your Power BI Center of Excellence with content overnight. Here's the maturity ladder for making it measurably better, not just bigger.
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