AI Enablement Library

The Launchpad.
How-to guides for the work that matters.

Practitioner-grade walkthroughs for every layer of the Snowflake stack — Cortex Code, Cortex Analyst, SnowSQL, Streamlit, SnowWork agents, and the governance and FinOps disciplines that hold them together.

10 Modules in series 2 Available now Weekly New drops

Series Overview

Navigator tier$99/mo
Operator tier$200/mo
Architect tierSOW
Avg. completion time75 min
Hands-on labsEvery module
What is the Launchpad
"A working library of Operator-grade how-tos. Each guide is a complete build — install, configure, deploy, validate, govern. No vendor demos. No theory. Just the work, as it actually runs in production."
Latest Release

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New · OPR-005

SnowSQL 101
The Command Line, Operator-Grade.

Install, configure, and operate SnowSQL for production data work — and understand its place alongside the modern Snowflake CLI. Twelve pages of practitioner-grade content, hands-on lab, and a complete migration plan.

TierOperator
Pages12
Time75 min + lab
FormatHTML / PDF
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01
What SnowSQL is — and where it stands in 2026
02
Anatomy of a SnowSQL command
03
The five-step install and connect
04
Diagnosing connection failures
05
Configuration and security
06
Variables, scripts, and automation
The Series

All guides.

Filter by track or tier. Each guide produces a tangible artifact — a configured connection, a deployed app, an authored semantic model, a governed agent. Read alone, or work through the entire Operator series.

OPR-004 Available
Operator · Cortex AI
Cortex Analyst Semantic Models
Author production-grade YAML semantic models with verified queries, synonyms, and governance controls. Move accuracy from demo-grade to production-grade.
12 PAGES · 90 MIN→
OPR-005 Available
Operator · SQL & CLI
SnowSQL 101 — Command Line
Install, configure, and operate SnowSQL for production. Includes diagnostics matrix, security controls, and the migration path to modern Snowflake CLI.
12 PAGES · 75 MIN→
OPR-006 Available
Operator · SQL & CLI
Snowflake CLI Migration
A structured migration path from SnowSQL to the modern Snowflake CLI without breaking scheduled pipelines or CI workflows. Mapping table included.
12 PAGES · 75 MIN→
OPR-001 Available
Operator · Cortex AI
Cortex Code CLI Fundamentals
Set up Cortex Code CLI with real schema injection, dbt and Airflow integration, and Agent Teams orchestration. Hands-on against a live account.
12 PAGES · 90 MIN→
OPR-002 Available
Operator · Streamlit
Streamlit in Snowflake Quick Start
Ship an internal-facing data app directly on Snowflake — no separate hosting, no auth gymnastics. From scaffold to deployed in one sprint.
12 PAGES · 60 MIN→
OPR-003 Available
Operator · Governance & FinOps
ACCOUNT_USAGE FinOps Queries
Five queries every Operator should run. Find idle warehouses, oversized compute, runaway queries, and stale storage — and quantify the avoidable spend.
12 PAGES · 60 MIN→
OPR-007 Available
Operator · Cortex AI
SnowWork Agent Design
Design and deploy autonomous Snowflake workflow agents with human-in-the-loop checkpoints, audit trails, and cost containment. End-to-end build.
12 PAGES · 90 MIN→
OPR-008 Coming Soon
Architect · Governance & FinOps
RBAC for Agentic Workflows
Least-privilege role design for agentic AI on Snowflake. Service roles, masking inheritance, audit patterns, and the negative test battery that proves it works.
EXPECTED · JUN 2026→
OPR-009 Coming Soon
Operator · Mobile
Mobile Apps on Snowflake APIs
Wire native mobile apps and progressive web apps to Snowflake through Cortex Agents and governed APIs. Field operations and real-time approvals.
EXPECTED · JUL 2026→
OPR-010 Coming Soon
Architect · Federal
Federal Deployment Patterns
Snowflake and Cortex in FedRAMP-adjacent environments. NIST 800-171 alignment, Public Trust patterns, and the audit narrative every program office wants.
EXPECTED · AUG 2026→
How the Launchpad Works

Three tiers,
one practice.

Every guide is tagged for a specific tier of practitioner. The tier signals depth and assumes prior knowledge — not seniority. A senior CFO using Cortex Analyst is a Navigator. A junior data engineer maintaining production pipelines is an Operator.

01
Navigator
"Knows the platform. Learning to move through it confidently."
  • Business analysts & data stewards
  • BI consumers, junior analysts
  • Plain-English queries via Cortex Analyst
02
Operator
"Runs production Snowflake. Owns the outcome at 2am."
  • Data & analytics engineers
  • Snowflake admins, BI developers
  • Hands-on labs and production patterns
03
Architect
"Designs the systems Operators run. Sets the standards everyone else inherits."
  • Data architects, principal engineers
  • CDOs, VPs of Data, federal CTOs
  • Governance & design patterns

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