Ideas that move data teams forward

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Snowflake Auto-Clustering Costs Out of Control? How to Find the Tables Driving Them and What to Do

Yaniv Leven
Yaniv Leven
TL;DR Automatic Clustering bills as its own service. It does not show up under a warehouse, so you will not find it by looking at warehouse credits. Since 1 September 2026, newly clustered tables use Optima Clustering, which is billed by data ingested rather than...
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Seemore Data Named a Finalist in the Future of AI 2026 Startup Competition

Nurit Gal
Nurit Gal
We’re thrilled to announce that Seemore Data has made it to the finals of the Future of AI 2026 Startup Competition, joining a select group of innovative startups chosen from hundreds of applicants. On October 21, our CEO, Yaniv Leven, will represent Seemore Data...
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Your Snowflake Cost Dashboard Might Be Lying to You

Yaniv Leven
Yaniv Leven
Why bytes scanned is the wrong yardstick for spend, and what to measure instead In August, a story made the rounds in Snowflake circles with a great headline: a 149 GB query that Snowflake reported as having scanned negative 1.5 GB. The cause was a quiet technical one...
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Your FinOps Data Just Moved Into Your Chat Window

Nurit Gal
Nurit Gal
Data questions rarely show up at a convenient time, and they rarely show up simple. “Is this spike real or just noise?” “What actually feeds this table before I touch it?” “Did that automation we turned on last month actually do anything?” These aren’t questions with a...
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The Cost of 30 “Harmless” Snowflake Warehouse Idle Seconds, Multiplied

Nurit Gal
Nurit Gal
Snowflake warehouse idle time adds up one gap at a time. See what it costs, and how Auto-Shutdown and Auto-Scaler reclaim it in real time.

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    Balance scale illustration with a visibility eye card on one side and a cost/coin card on the other, representing the chargeback vs showback trade-off for data teams
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    Chargeback vs Showback for Data Teams – Which Model Actually Changes Behavior

    Nurit Gal
    Nurit Gal
    A 3D vector illustration featuring the seemore >data winking pink piggy bank mascot. The pig, wearing a headset and holding a gold coin, is shown reconfiguring a large crystalline snowflake to represent data optimization. The snowflake transitions from a fragmented, unoptimized state in Salmon Pink (#F87E7E) to a sleek, glowing, and efficient geometric state in Teal (#88F4DB).
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    Snowflake Adaptive Warehouses Change the Interface. They Do Not Remove the Engineering Problem.

    Yaniv Leven
    Yaniv Leven
    Vertical Scaling Snowflake illustration showing AI-driven warehouse optimization, rising costs, and performance monitoring on cloud data infrastructure
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    Vertical Scaling Snowflake: Predicting Query Behavior and Cost

    Nurit Gal
    Nurit Gal
    Diagram showing Snowflake Intelligence architecture, including data sources flowing into Cortex Analyst, Cortex Search, Document AI, and Cortex AI Functions, with Cortex Agents delivering answers to the user
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    Snowflake Intelligence: Transform Your Data into Actionable Insights with AI Agents

    Matan Avneri
    horizontal scene of a data engineer analyzing a Snowflake cost dashboard on a large, glowing monitor. The dashboard shows clear AI-generated insights and a bold “30% savings” indicator in green. Subtle cloud and data flow graphics symbolize the Snowflake platform, with AI visual elements (neural lines or holographic overlays) helping interpret the data. Modern office or digital workspace lighting, cool blue-white color palette, tech-savvy and optimistic mood. (16:9)
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    How to Reduce Snowflake Costs by 30% with Smarter Data Monitoring

    Lilach Shazar
    Comparison infographic showing traditional static auto-suspend versus intelligent AI-powered warehouse auto-shutdown for Snowflake optimization
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    What is Smart Snowflake Auto Suspend: Auto Shutdown

    Yaniv Leven
    Yaniv Leven
    data engineer monitoring Cortex AI workloads on dashboard with cost-saving insights from Seemore.
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    Snowflake Cortex AI for Financial Services: Enterprise-Ready AI Built to Scale

    Matan Avneri
    Visual representation of Snowflake query tuning’s Holy Trinity: Read Less, Sort Less, Queue Less. Snowflake logo centered within a glowing triangle
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    Stop Guessing: The Holy Trinity of Snowflake Query Tuning

    Yaniv Leven
    Yaniv Leven
    Person analyzing charts on a laptop beside the Snowflake logo
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    Snowflake Query Insights: More Signal, Less Guesswork

    Seemore Team
    Guy Biecher