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Live Talk: Anatomy of Our Internal Data Agent at Preset (ft. Agor)
What if your whole data team had an AI engineer running around the clock, connected to every system in your stack? In this live talk, Preset founder & CEO Max Beauchemin is joined by Head of Community Evan Rusackas where they pull back the curtain on DatAgor, Preset's internal AI data engineer, and introduces Agor, the open source agent orchestration platform Max built to make it all possible.
Watch this recorded live session for an inside look at how a small data team stands up a sophisticated, long-lived agent with memory, skills, and access to everything from Preset MCP to data pipelines, Slack, HubSpot, and beyond.
In this video:
0:00 – Welcome
0:37 – Meet the team: Max & Evan
2:21 – Today's agenda: anatomy of Preset's internal data agent
4:36 – State of AI: the big shifts from 2025
5:31 – MCP, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI — the year agent tooling got real
7:47 – 2026 trends: orchestration, agent identity & the PDLC shift
9:30 – Agent identity: do your agents borrow your credentials, or have their own?
10:30 – The tire pile: RAG, IDEs & semantic search in the AI era
13:47 – Key premise: your agents are only as powerful as their interfaces
14:31 – Introducing DatAgor, Preset's internal AI data engineer
15:46 – Preset's data stack: why your agent needs access to context
16:43 – Blueprint: what a great analytics agent actually needs
17:19 – Analytics platform layer: charts, dashboards, datasets & semantic layers
19:10 – SQL access, data access policy & role-level security
20:22 – Enabling data teams: pipeline source code, lineage & data ops access
21:36 – Submitting PRs, improving docs, memory systems & skills
22:21 – Source & destination access: HubSpot, ticketing systems & the soft semantic layer
23:34 – Making your agent available on Slack
25:47 – Trust, security & the human-in-the-loop
28:14 – DatAgor's full architecture: what it connects to
28:48 – Introducing Agor: Preset's open source agent orchestration platform (https://agor.live/)
30:24 – Agor demo begins: the spatial board UI
31:26 – Under the hood: cards, git worktrees & multi-SDK support (Claude, Codex, Gemini)
33:06 – Zones, templates & standardizing prompts across your team
33:52 – Live: exploring Preset's marketing repo inside Agor
35:01 – Why Agor was built: the chaos of isolated local AI sessions
36:20 – Agor settings: boards, repos, assistants & centralized MCP config
37:35 – Artifacts: JavaScript mini-apps your agents create and share
39:00 – 70+ agents at Preset: how every team runs their own
39:40 – DatAgor on Slack: asking an agent to describe itself
40:45 – Live: triaging an ETL error via Slack and ejecting to an Agor session
41:19 – Scheduling: agents that produce weekly reports and work while you sleep
41:40 – Validating agent output: the case for multiplayer sessions
42:31 – Sales, ops & marketing agents at Preset
43:38 – How easy it is to create a new persisted agent in Agor
44:23 – Learnings from Preset Labs: agent modeling, scope & combining MCP + memory
44:38 – Getting started with Agor today (agor.live)
45:54 – Sneak peek: connecting Preset Chatbot to Agor as a control plane
47:06 – Q&A begins
47:22 – Q: Managing dashboards as code using agents and the SUP CLI
48:33 – Artifacts as a new primitive in Superset, and why dashboards aren't dead
50:23 – Q: Auto-populating dashboards and charts via MCP in an automated workflow
53:34 – Q: Guardrails, auditing & the trust problem in AI data agents
55:40 – Closing remarks & how to get in touch
Whether you're a data engineer, analytics lead, or anyone building internal AI tooling, this talk shows what becomes possible when you give a well-scoped agent access to your full data stack, and the orchestration layer to manage it all.
Recorded live on May 21, 2026.
🤖 Read the blog post DatAgor wrote about itself: https://preset.io/blog/meet-datagor-ai-data-engineer/
🔧 Try Agor (open source agentic orchestration): https://agor.live
🚀 Get started with Preset AI: https://preset.io
Check out our upcoming events: https://preset.io/events
Stay informed about Agor: https://preset.io/contact-us-about-agor/
Resources mentioned:
Preset MCP overview & docs: https://docs.preset.io/docs/preset-mcp-server
Preset Chatbot: https://preset.io/blog/meet-preset-chatbot/
SUP CLI (Superset CLI): https://docs.preset.io/docs/sup-cli
Apache Superset on GitHub: https://github.com/apache/superset
Connect with us:
Website: https://preset.io/
X: https://x.com/preset_data
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/preset-io
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/preset_io/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/preset.io
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