--- title: "Garrett O'Brien - MotherDuck Blog" description: "Garrett joins MotherDuck to lead product marketing. Previously, he worked in product marketing roles at Common Paper and Stitch." canonical: "https://motherduck.com/authors/garrett-obrien/" --- # Garrett O'Brien Garrett O'Brien's photo Product Marketing Manager Garrett joins MotherDuck to lead product marketing. Previously, he worked in product marketing roles at Common Paper and Stitch. ## 18 BLOG POSTS AND VIDEOS [2026/08/10 - Adithya Krishnan, Sheila Sitaram, Garrett O'Brien](/blog/agent-signup/) ### [Agents can sign up for MotherDuck](/blog/agent-signup) AI agents can now sign up for MotherDuck with a single API call - no forms, no credentials, no human in the loop (unless you want to be, of course). Experiment faster, share data, or just give your agents a ducking fast set of tools for analytics. [2026/07/29 - Garrett O'Brien, Hamilton Ulmer, Till Döhmen, Jacob Matson](/blog/context-belongs-in-the-warehouse/) ### [Context belongs in the warehouse](/blog/context-belongs-in-the-warehouse) Introducing Guides, MotherDuck's context layer for AI agents. More accurate queries, lower token spend, and distributed context for your entire organization. [45:32](/videos/motherduck-flights-agent-native-data-pipelines/)[2026-06-17](/videos/motherduck-flights-agent-native-data-pipelines/) ### [Introducing Flights: Agent-Native Data Pipelines in MotherDuck](/videos/motherduck-flights-agent-native-data-pipelines/) See how MotherDuck Flights lets you build and schedule Python data pipelines with an AI agent — from a single prompt to a running ingest pipeline and live dashboard. Webinar Data Pipelines AI, ML and LLMs MotherDuck Features Python [2026/04/27 - Garrett O'Brien](/blog/april-2026-product-roundup/) ### [April Product Roundup: Duckling Monitoring, Embedded Dives, DuckLake 1.0, and More](/blog/april-2026-product-roundup) April 2026 at MotherDuck: Duckling compute monitoring, Embedded Dives, agent Skills, DuckLake 1.0 support, and Power BI + Tableau via the Postgres Endpoint. [2026-04-21](/videos/motherduck-postgres-endpoint-demo/) ### [MotherDuck Now Speaks Postgres: Fast Analytics Without Changing Your Stack](/videos/motherduck-postgres-endpoint-demo/) MotherDuck's Postgres endpoint lets any Postgres client, driver, or BI tool query your data warehouse without installing a DuckDB library. Webinar MotherDuck Features Ecosystem SQL [60:41](/videos/zero-latency-analytics-dives-embed/)[2026-04-09](/videos/zero-latency-analytics-dives-embed/) ### [Zero-Latency Analytics in Your Application with Dives](/videos/zero-latency-analytics-dives-embed/) BI tools were never built to be app interfaces — they're rigid, clunky, and add complexity to your user experience. Dives offer a different approach: interactive data apps you create with natural language that can be embedded directly into your applications. In this session, Alex Monahan walks through how to build a Dive and embed it in your app, with help from AI agents. You'll learn how to create interactive visualizations with natural language queries, embed Dives into your app with a secure sandbox, set up the auth flow so your users get read-only access without exposing credentials, and choose between server-side and dual execution with DuckDB-Wasm. Whether you're building customer-facing analytics or internal tools, this webinar shows you the full workflow from query to production-ready embed. See how Claude Code + Dives can get you from zero to a working data app fast. Webinar MotherDuck Features BI & Visualization App Development [2026/04/02 - Garrett O'Brien, Hamilton Ulmer](/blog/introducing-embedded-dives/) ### [Embedded Dives: Interactive Data Apps for Customer-Facing Analytics](/blog/introducing-embedded-dives) Real-time, interactive data apps – now embedded anywhere in your application. Created by your favorite agents and powered by dual execution. [2026/03/31 - Louisa Huang, Jelte Fennema-Nio, Sheila Sitaram, Garrett O'Brien](/blog/motherduck-now-speaks-postgres/) ### [MotherDuck Now Speaks Postgres](/blog/motherduck-now-speaks-postgres) MotherDuck's Postgres endpoint lets you query your data warehouse using any PostgreSQL-compatible client, driver, or BI tool — no new dependencies needed. [2026/03/19 - Garrett O'Brien](/blog/claudeception-inside-the-mind-of-an-analytics-agent/) ### [Claudeception: Inside the Mind of an Analytics Agent](/blog/claudeception-inside-the-mind-of-an-analytics-agent) More tool calls, more schema exploration, more verification — does it help, or hurt? We dug into the chain-of-thought traces behind one of the hardest text-to-SQL benchmarks to understand how analytics agents actually think. [2026/03/05 - Louisa Huang, Garrett O'Brien](/blog/dashboards-as-code-dives/) ### [Dashboards as Code : CI/CD For MotherDuck Dives](/blog/dashboards-as-code-dives) Local development, version control, and automated CI/CD deployments for MotherDuck Dives — composable data visualizations that are just code. [2026/03/03 - Garrett O'Brien](/blog/give-your-agents-write-access/) ### [Give Your Agents Write Access](/blog/give-your-agents-write-access) The MotherDuck remote MCP server now supports write operations. Learn how zero-copy clones, snapshots, and hypertenancy make it safe to let agents build in your data warehouse. [1:00:10](/videos/ai-agent-shareable-visualizations/)[2026-02-25](/videos/ai-agent-shareable-visualizations/) ### [Shareable visualizations built by your favorite agent](/videos/ai-agent-shareable-visualizations/) You know the pattern: someone asks a question, you write a query, share the results — and a week later, the same question comes back. Watch this webinar to see how MotherDuck is rethinking how questions become answers, with AI agents that build and share interactive data visualizations straight from live queries. Webinar AI ML and LLMs MotherDuck Features [2025/12/16 - Garrett O'Brien, Jacob Matson](/blog/motherduck-planetscale-integration/) ### [MotherDuck Integrates with PlanetScale Postgres](/blog/motherduck-planetscale-integration) Run analytics 200x faster on PlanetScale Postgres with MotherDuck integration. Keep millisecond transactions while pushing analytical queries to serverless compute. [2025/12/11 - Garrett O'Brien](/blog/motherduck-artie-integration/) ### [Streaming Pipelines with MotherDuck and Artie](/blog/motherduck-artie-integration) CDC streaming takes flight with Artie’s new MotherDuck destination. [2025/11/14 - Garrett O'Brien](/blog/small-data-sf-recap-2025/) ### [Small Data SF 2025: the Recap!](/blog/small-data-sf-recap-2025) Dive into a recap of the world's hottest efficiency-themed data conference, Small Data SF! [2025-10-31](/videos/lies-damn-lies-and-benchmarks/) ### [Beyond the Benchmarks: A BigQuery Co-Founder's Guide to Evaluating Data Warehouse Performance](/videos/lies-damn-lies-and-benchmarks/) Big Data is dead. Learn to evaluate data warehouse performance via Time-to-Insight and real costs, ignoring misleading petabyte-scale vendor benchmarks. Stream Interview [2025/10/09 - Alex Monahan, Garrett O'Brien](/blog/announcing-duckdb-141-motherduck/) ### [DuckDB 1.4.1 and DuckLake 0.3 Land in MotherDuck: New SQL Syntax, Iceberg Interoperability, and Performance Gains](/blog/announcing-duckdb-141-motherduck) MotherDuck now supports DuckDB 1.4.1 and DuckLake 0.3, with new SQL syntax, faster sorting, Iceberg interoperability, and more. Read on for the highlights from these major releases. [2025/09/24 - Garrett O'Brien, Sheila Sitaram](/blog/motherduck-in-europe/) ### [MotherDuck is Landing in Europe! Announcing our EU Region](/blog/motherduck-in-europe) Serverless analytics built on DuckDB, running entirely in the EU. ## SUBSCRIBE ### Subscribe to MotherDuck Blog Also subscribe to other MotherDuck updates Submit