Chris Parmer

Chris Parmer is the co-founder of Plotly and a leading voice in trustworthy, AI-assisted analytics. An engineer by training and lifelong data practitioner, he builds tools that let teams move from questions to answers fast, using AI to generate auditable Python that runs securely in enterprise environments. Chris champions role-ready assistants, strong governance, and measurable impact, helping product, finance, and operations leaders cut time to decision while controlling cost per analysis. His work centers on analytics you can verify, scale, and defend in the boardroom.

Stop Guessing. Start Verifying.

Episode Summary

Plotly co-founder Chris Parmer lays out a practical blueprint for AI you can verify, govern, and scale. Go inside Studio’s approach where AI writes auditable Python that runs in your environment, leaves a full trail, and can be rerun on demand. See how role-ready assistants personalize analysis for product, finance, and operations while keeping data inside the VPC, using schemas not raw tables, and enforcing RBAC with approval gates. Learn to operate agents like a real workforce with owners, scopes, logs, and KPIs, then benchmark impact with metrics leaders care about: time to first insight, time to decision, cost per analysis, decision quality lift, and manual rework avoided. We cover the data core that makes it work, from semantic layers and feature stores to versioned artifacts and prompt logs that satisfy audit and security teams. If you want analytics that move at the speed of the business and stand up in the boardroom, this episode shows how enterprises out-learn and out-deliver.