WEBINAR

How Epoch8 uses Grist to make AI agents query client databases accurately.

July 24, 2026 at 10:00 am EST

When the AI agent gets the query wrong, most teams add more prompt engineering and pray it holds. Epoch8 built the metadata layer instead.

If your team is building AI agents that query structured data on behalf of users, you’ve probably hit the same wall Epoch8 did. Vector search finds the right document but not the right row. The agent guesses at the schema and gets it wrong often enough that nobody trusts the output. Prompt engineering helps at the margins but does not solve the underlying problem: the AI has no reliable way to know what your tables and columns actually mean.

Olga Tatarinova, co-founder of Epoch8, will walk us through how her team uses Grist as the metadata layer between AI agents and client databases. The setup lets Claude and other AI tools write accurate SQL against real-world client data, gets maintained by non-technical people at Epoch8 and their clients, and scales across projects in retail, eCommerce, and industrial software.

When:

Friday, July 24th, 2026

10AM EST, 3PM GMT

Where:

Online

What you’ll see:

  • How Epoch8 evaluated the alternatives, including NocoDB and Airtable, and why Grist was the answer for their RAG stack
  • How the data model documentation is structured in Grist, with entities, attributes, links, and SQL snippets Claude can consume
  • A live walkthrough of how a natural-language question becomes an accurate SQL query against a client database
  • The broader pattern: why AI agents working with structured data need a metadata layer, and what it takes to build one that non-technical people can maintain

Who this is for:

Data practitioners, AI/ML engineers, and technical decision-makers building AI products or working with AI agents against structured client data. If you’re building a RAG system that has to query real databases, wiring up MCP servers for structured data access, or watching your AI agent get schema questions wrong more often than you’d like, this one’s for you.

Hosted by Anais Concepcion, CEO of Grist Labs.

Panel

Anais Concepcion

Co-CEO, Grist Labs.

Anais Concepcion is CEO of Grist Labs and hosts Grist’s customer spotlight conversations. A product and growth strategist by background, she’s worked across AI health tech, platform business solutions, and impact investment in Latin America. At Grist she’s focused on building tools that put teams in control of their own data, and on the data sovereignty conversation reshaping how regulated organizations choose their software.

Olga Tatarinova

Co-Founder & COO, Epoch8.

Olga Tatarinova is co-founder of Epoch8, an agency that helps startups and enterprises ship machine learning, AI, and computer vision systems into production. Epoch8’s work spans intelligent chatbots, RAG systems, and recommendation engines for clients in retail, eCommerce, and industrial software. Before founding Epoch8, Olga spent over a decade in product management, including as Head of Product Management at Enter and Product Manager at Mail.ru.