1,200 analytics requests a day: Clay and Vercel's Bet on AI-Native Analytics - Ship 26 NYC
Vercel's data agent d0 answers over 30,000 questions a month for 800 employees, and 45% of those questions don't come from humans. They come from other apps and agents. Recorded live at Vercel Ship 2026 in New York City, Abhi Sivasailam (VP of Data, Vercel) and Josh Hanson (Data Team Manager, Clay) show how both companies built production data agents on Eve, why the same framework produced two genuinely different agents, and why they want you to build the next thousand. CHAPTERS 0:00 d0: 30,000 questions a month, 45% from agents 2:12 The minimum lovable data agent 5:19 Capabilities as folders in Eve 7:13 D0's five structured context layers 8:58 Monty: the codebase is the knowledge base 13:44 A 5 a.m. account health deep dive 16:33 Why you should build, not buy 17:42 The next thousand data agents LINKS Clay → https://www.clay.com Ship 2026 recap → https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-ship-2026-recap Start building → https://vercel.com FOLLOW VERCEL X → https://x.com/vercel LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/vercel GitHub → https://github.com/vercel #Vercel #VercelShip #DataAgents #AIAgents #Clay #Analytics