El-Moursi: Data preparation and pipelines are the key prerequisite for AI agents
Suzanne El-Moursi · How BrightHive is Unlocking the Power of AI to Transform Data-Driven Work · May 28, 2025 · at 11:51
BrightHive CEO Suzanne El-Moursi discusses why data infrastructure and cleansing are the hardest bottlenecks in deploying conversational agentic AI.
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“Because once you actually solve for that on-ramp of how to get your data on, how to cleanse it, how to protect it, how to make it usable and create the data pipelines then the agentic piece, you can ask any question, and that's what you're engaging with today with AI.”
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