[cstanley]

Spot on analysis of the market — we also think the next frontier for data eng/science is towards further automation. After all, dashboards are input to a person that makes a decision and takes an action; and to your point, tools on the market don’t really serve this use case.

To this end, we plan to support more human-in-the-loop workflows by expanding on our dashboard feature and enabling stateful user input interfaces.

One small note to point #4, while we provide out-of-box infrastructure for easy setup, Patterns can run on your existing data warehouse — so it plays nicely with big teams that have existing tools.

[sails]

> makes a decision and takes an action

Exactly, this is such an obvious pattern and yet the second half is so badly catered for.

#4 - Great, that is useful, not obvious from the docs/examples that this is possible.