From 0786a6df9162c237f15dfe20669fc49e36fa1000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: VG Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:49:30 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add AI hackathon pitch deck and speaker narrative. Give judges a clear story for Sky Lattice: AI as front door, durable intent and decisions under the copilots. Co-authored-by: Cursor --- docs/pitch/PITCH.md | 76 ++++++++ docs/pitch/index.html | 409 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 485 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/pitch/PITCH.md create mode 100644 docs/pitch/index.html diff --git a/docs/pitch/PITCH.md b/docs/pitch/PITCH.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8d00618 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/pitch/PITCH.md @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +# Sky Lattice — AI Hackathon Pitch (Narrative) + +Speaker notes and copy you can trim. Slides: open [`index.html`](index.html) in a browser (`←` / `→`). + +--- + +## 30-second pitch (elevator) + +Snowflake gives you a blank cloud. Every customer, we rebuild isolation, RBAC, and data-product layout by hand — lately with AI chats that forget *why* we made exceptions. **Sky Lattice** is the layer under the copilots: a versioned blueprint, customer intent, durable decisions, and a deterministic planner. AI fills the forms; Terraform still ships the platform. + +--- + +## 2-minute pitch (spoken narrative) + +**Hook.** +We’ve all felt this: Snowflake looks empty, best practices live in people’s heads, and “let’s ask the LLM” turns into a week of clever SQL that nobody can re-run with confidence. + +**Problem.** +Setting up a real platform — environments, zones, roles, warehouses, service users — is repetitive but never identical. Today’s AI-assisted workflow accelerates the typing. It does **not** create institutional memory. Terraform state tells you what exists. The next chat session still re-litigates judgment. + +**Insight.** +Don’t fire the LLM. Put a lattice under it. Codify the recipe. Capture deviations as decisions. Make the agent drive files and a CLI — not invent production IAM from scratch every time. + +**Product.** +Sky Lattice is that lattice: +- a **blueprint** of how *we* set up Snowflake +- per-customer **intent** and **decisions** +- **`platformctl`** to validate, plan, drift, and apply +- optional **Cursor/Claude skills** as the natural-language front door + +Same path for greenfield and brownfield: interview → durable artifacts → deterministic plan. + +**Why us / why now.** +Platform teams are already using AI for infra. The winners won’t be who prompts harder — they’ll be who productizes the delivery system. We’re turning consulting tribal knowledge into software. + +**Status.** +Working v0.1 scaffold: wizard, decision store, planner, inventory drift, skills, demo customers. Next: live Terraform→Snowflake vertical slice. + +**Close.** +Sky Lattice — structure under the copilots. Help us harden it. + +--- + +## Slide-by-slide talking points + +| # | Slide | Say this | +|---|---|---| +| 1 | Title | Name + one-liner. Don’t over-explain yet. | +| 2 | Problem | Blank slate + amnesiac AI. Point at cost: time, inconsistency, audit. | +| 3 | Insight | Quote beat. Pause. | +| 4 | Product | Show the flow: NL → skill/intent → plan → TF. | +| 5 | Demo arc | Walk Acme story; emphasize *decision* as the magic. | +| 6 | Differentiation | Four cards — AI placement, memory, deviation, friction. | +| 7 | Market | Consultancies + internal platform teams. | +| 8 | Traction | Honest v0. What works / what’s next. | +| 9 | Ask | Design partners / judges who feel the pain. | + +--- + +## Objection handling + +| Objection | Response | +|---|---| +| “Just use Terraform modules.” | Modules are the engine. We add intent, decisions, wizard, policy, and an AI contract so modules get used the same way every time. | +| “Just use the LLM.” | We do — as the driver. Without durable intent/decisions, you get speed without repeatability. | +| “SnowDDL / DataOps.live already exist.” | Engines and platforms exist. Our IP is *our* blueprint + engagement memory model — and it’s agent-native. | +| “v0 doesn’t apply to Snowflake yet.” | True and intentional. We proved the control plane first; next slice is live apply. Judges should score the architecture + working demo path. | + +--- + +## Taglines (pick one) + +- Structure under the copilots. +- Snowflake platforms with memory. +- Codify. Tweak. Maintain. +- AI drives the forms. The lattice holds the truth. diff --git a/docs/pitch/index.html b/docs/pitch/index.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f58c0cc --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/pitch/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,409 @@ + + + + + + Sky Lattice — AI Hackathon Pitch + + + + + + +
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AI Hackathon · Platform Engineering

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Sky Lattice

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The missing layer between AI copilots and Snowflake — so platform setup is repeatable, auditable, and still human-fast.

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+ Intent + Decisions + Blueprint + Terraform + AI Front Door +
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The problem

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Snowflake is a blank slate.
AI chats are amnesiac.

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Today

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  • Every customer rebuild starts near zero
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  • RBAC, envs, zones = tribal knowledge
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  • LLM + Terraform: works once, forgets why
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  • Follow-ups reopen a new chat with TF state, not judgment
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Cost

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  • Weeks of senior time per engagement
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  • Inconsistent security posture
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  • Hard handoffs, harder audits
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  • AI accelerates typing — not institutional memory
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Insight

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“Don’t replace the LLM. Put a lattice under it.”

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Codify the recipe. Capture the why. Let AI drive the forms — never invent production IAM from scratch each session.

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What we built

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Sky Lattice

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An internal toolkit that turns “how we set up Snowflake” into a versioned product: blueprint + customer intent + durable decisions + deterministic plan — with Cursor/Claude as the optional front door.

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+ Natural language + → + Skill + intent/decisions + → + platformctl plan + → + Terraform / Snowflake +
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Live story

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Greenfield in minutes.
Brownfield without amnesia.

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    + Init Acme + platformctl init + wizard → domains, envs, restricted finance +
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    + Plan the lattice + Deterministic object graph: DBs, zones, roles, warehouses +
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    + Record the why + Decision file: temporary exception, expiry date, rationale +
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    + Come back later + New chat opens the customer repo — not a blank brain +
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Why this wins

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Not another chatbot.
Not another Terraform module dump.

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AI where it belongs

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Skills interview and edit intent. Policy blocks unsafe shortcuts. Apply stays deterministic.

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Memory that survives sessions

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TF state = what. Decision store = why. Intent = what we mean to run.

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Repeatable with deviation

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Same blueprint, different customer params and approved overrides — not copy-paste HCL.

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Low friction for Snowflake people

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Five verbs. Snowflake vocabulary. Familiar plan output. Optional agent IDE.

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Who cares

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Anyone shipping Snowflake platforms more than once.

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  • Data platform consultancies
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  • Internal platform / enablement teams
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  • Multi-account Snowflake orgs
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Pain they already feel

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  • “We reinvent RBAC every client”
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  • “AI helped, then we lost the thread”
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  • “Brownfield is a black box”
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Hackathon status

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Working scaffold. Honest v0.

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v0.1
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Blueprint · platformctl · wizard · decisions · drift inventory · Cursor skill · demo customers

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Next vertical slice

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  • Live Terraform → Snowflake apply
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  • Overrides that change the plan graph
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  • Live account discover
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The ask

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Help us harden the lattice.

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We’re building the control plane for AI-assisted data platform delivery. Join as design partners, Snowflake SMEs, or judges who’ve felt this pain.

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+ Open source trajectory + Consulting IP today + Product tomorrow +
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Sky Lattice — structure under the copilots.

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+ Sky Lattice + 1 / 9 + ← → or click +
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