We all talk about #AI, but what good is it if your models are powered by stale, outdated data?
In Episode 99 of Great Things with Great Tech, Deepti Srivastava, founder and CEO of Snow Leopard, and former founding PM of Google Spanner, calls out the broken state of enterprise AI. With decades of experience in distributed systems and data infrastructure, Deepti unveils how Snow Leopard is redefining how AI applications are built, by tapping into live, real-time data from SQL and APIs without the need for ETL or pipelines.
Instead of relying on static snapshots or disconnected data lakes, Snow Leopard’s #agentic platform queries native sources like PostgreSQL, Snowflake, and Salesforce on-demand, empowering AI to live directly in the critical decision path.
🔹 In This Episode, We Cover:
✔️ Deepti’s journey from building Spanner at Google to founding Snow Leopard AI.
✔️ Why most enterprise AI fails due to reliance on stale data and outdated pipelines.
✔️ How Snow Leopard federates live data across SQL and APIs with zero ETL.
✔️ The limitations of vector databases in structured, real-time business use cases.
✔️ Why putting AI in the critical path of business decisions unlocks real value.
00:00 The Problem with Enterprise AI
00:58 Welcome & Company Name Origins
01:36 Deepti’s Global Journey into Tech
03:30 From Distributed Systems to Cloud Evolution
06:06 Building Google Spanner
10:58 Why Accuracy Matters in Data
15:30 From Observable to Founding Snow Leopard
20:59 AI in the Critical Decision Path
25:19 No ETL, No Pipelines
30:00 Vector Search is Not Enough
34:34 Agentic Query Generation
37:50 Customization & Client Integration
39:00 Future of Snow Leopard
40:30 Wrap Up
Snow Leopard is a U.S.-based technology company founded in 2023 by and is Headquartered in San Francisco, California
Snow Leopard specializes in building a platform that enables the development of production-ready AI applications by leveraging live business data. The company's approach focuses on real-time data retrieval directly from sources like SQL databases and APIs, eliminating the need for traditional ETL processes and data pipelines. This innovation allows for more accurate and timely AI-driven business decision.
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Snow Leopard Web: https://www.snowleopard.ai/
Deepti Srivastava on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/thedeepti/
Snow Leopard on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/snow-leopard-ai/
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