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## A Clean Data Model Beats AI Instructions, and It Isn’t Even Close

We ran a test: AI instructions versus data modeling. We gave two Microsoft Fabric AI agents the same messy data from five mismatched systems and asked both the same 12 business questions. The data was identical, and so was the query speed. The only real difference was how each agent was set up to understand the information. One agent worked from written instructions over the raw tables; the other read the same data after it was reshaped into a clean model

The results were not even close. Find out why.

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