Show Notes
Sumeet is the Head of Data at Brex and came personally recommended by the Claude Code team. In our episode, he showed me how to use Claude Code to build a data explorer that lets anyone ask questions and get insights without writing a single SQL query. If you’re tired of analyzing data manually, then this interview is a must-watch.
Summit and I talked about: (00:00) How to make Claude Code your data analyst (03:04) Analyzing data with AI: Monitor → Explore → Craft → Impact (10:23) Live demo: Building a startup funding MCP with 3 queries (21:10) Context management: Why your data agent gets confused (26:04) How to connect Claude to Slack and Drive for context (35:00) Demo: Predicting which AI startups will get Series B funding (41:32) Brex stats on which AI coding tools are actually winning
Get the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/build-an-ai-data-analyst-with-claude-code-sumeet
Where to find Sumeet: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smarwaha/
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