Genie readiness is a modeling problem, not a prompt problem
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Teams ask how good the data needs to be before conversational analytics helps. The honest answer: good enough that a careful analyst would trust the same tables without a chat UI.
Prompts cannot rescue ambiguous grain, cryptic column names, or missing relationships.
Figure 1. Conversational tools sit on top of curated analytical structures. Source: Microsoft Learn: lakehouse overview.