MX Far Future Ideas
Status: Ongoing collection
Rules
- Every idea includes expected user impact.
- Every idea maps to at least one workstream.
- Every idea states why it is out of current milestone scope.
Milestone tasks
dft core (Sr Engineer Architect)
Long-horizon opportunities for the YAML contract, compiler/normalizer, execution adapters, and release/versioning are captured as concrete hypotheses with user impact, prerequisites, and evaluation criteria. Ideas are ranked by strategic value and feasibility so future investment decisions can be made quickly with less rediscovery.
- Experiment design for future bets — Design validation experiments for versioning and migrations so future bets can be tested before major investment.
- Future opportunity research — Capture long-horizon opportunities for YAML contract and normalizer with user impact and strategic fit.
- Prerequisite and dependency mapping — Map enabling prerequisites and dependencies for execution/runtime adapters to reduce future startup cost.
cloud suite (UI Design and Frontend Dev)
Long-horizon opportunities for hosted user experience for onboarding, sharing, collaboration, and account/project flows are captured as concrete hypotheses with user impact, prerequisites, and evaluation criteria. Ideas are ranked by strategic value and feasibility so future investment decisions can be made quickly with less rediscovery.
- Experiment design for future bets — Design validation experiments for account/project lifecycle flows so future bets can be tested before major investment.
- Future opportunity research — Capture long-horizon opportunities for workspace and onboarding UX with user impact and strategic fit.
- Prerequisite and dependency mapping — Map enabling prerequisites and dependencies for sharing and collaboration surface to reduce future startup cost.
inspect profiler (Sr Engineer Architect)
Long-horizon opportunities for warehouse profiling, semantic inference, and analyst-facing data context surfaces are captured as concrete hypotheses with user impact, prerequisites, and evaluation criteria. Ideas are ranked by strategic value and feasibility so future investment decisions can be made quickly with less rediscovery.
- Experiment design for future bets — Design validation experiments for analyst-facing inspector experience so future bets can be tested before major investm…
- Future opportunity research — Capture long-horizon opportunities for profiling pipeline with user impact and strategic fit.
- Prerequisite and dependency mapping — Map enabling prerequisites and dependencies for semantic inference and context quality to reduce future startup cost.
mcp analyst agent (Data AI Engineer Architect)
Long-horizon opportunities for AI agent tool interfaces, execution workflows, and eval-driven behavior tuning are captured as concrete hypotheses with user impact, prerequisites, and evaluation criteria. Ideas are ranked by strategic value and feasibility so future investment decisions can be made quickly with less rediscovery.
- Experiment design for future bets — Design validation experiments for eval and guardrail framework so future bets can be tested before major investment.
- Future opportunity research — Capture long-horizon opportunities for MCP tool execution model with user impact and strategic fit.
- Prerequisite and dependency mapping — Map enabling prerequisites and dependencies for agent prompt/workflow behavior to reduce future startup cost.
- Streaming YAML generation with early query execution — When AI generates a dashboard, stream the YAML and begin executing queries as they arrive rather than waiting for the f…
ft dash packs (Data Analysis Evangelist and AI Training)
Long-horizon opportunities for connector-specific dashboard packs and KPI narratives for Fivetran sources are captured as concrete hypotheses with user impact, prerequisites, and evaluation criteria. Ideas are ranked by strategic value and feasibility so future investment decisions can be made quickly with less rediscovery.
- Experiment design for future bets — Design validation experiments for pack publishing workflow so future bets can be tested before major investment.
- Future opportunity research — Capture long-horizon opportunities for connector pack coverage with user impact and strategic fit.
- future: Dashboards on permissions/access — Define future connector dashboard pack focused on permissions/access analytics and governance visibility.
- future: github data — Define future GitHub analytics dashboard pack concept with engineering productivity and delivery health narratives.
- Prerequisite and dependency mapping — Map enabling prerequisites and dependencies for dashboard narrative quality to reduce future startup cost.
ide extension (Head of Engineering)
Long-horizon opportunities for analyst authoring workflow in VS Code/Cursor with preview, diagnostics, and assist are captured as concrete hypotheses with user impact, prerequisites, and evaluation criteria. Ideas are ranked by strategic value and feasibility so future investment decisions can be made quickly with less rediscovery.
- Experiment design for future bets — Design validation experiments for inspector/agent integration in IDE so future bets can be tested before major investme…
- Future opportunity research — Capture long-horizon opportunities for editor + preview workflow with user impact and strategic fit.
- Prerequisite and dependency mapping — Map enabling prerequisites and dependencies for IDE diagnostics and guidance to reduce future startup cost.
chart library (rj)
Long-horizon opportunities for visual language, chart defaults, interaction behavior, and differentiated styling are captured as concrete hypotheses with user impact, prerequisites, and evaluation criteria. Ideas are ranked by strategic value and feasibility so future investment decisions can be made quickly with less rediscovery.
- Experiment design for future bets — Design validation experiments for interaction/accessibility polish so future bets can be tested before major investment.
- Future opportunity research — Capture long-horizon opportunities for visual language system with user impact and strategic fit.
- Prerequisite and dependency mapping — Map enabling prerequisites and dependencies for chart default behavior to reduce future startup cost.
context catalog nimble (Data AI Engineer Architect)
Long-horizon opportunities for context schema/catalog contracts and Nimble enrichment flows across product surfaces are captured as concrete hypotheses with user impact, prerequisites, and evaluation criteria. Ideas are ranked by strategic value and feasibility so future investment decisions can be made quickly with less rediscovery.
- Experiment design for future bets — Design validation experiments for cross-surface context contract so future bets can be tested before major investment.
- Future opportunity research — Capture long-horizon opportunities for context schema model with user impact and strategic fit.
- Prerequisite and dependency mapping — Map enabling prerequisites and dependencies for context enrichment rules to reduce future startup cost.
dashboard factory (Data Analysis Evangelist and AI Training)
Long-horizon opportunities for repeatable process for producing, reviewing, and publishing quickstarts/examples are captured as concrete hypotheses with user impact, prerequisites, and evaluation criteria. Ideas are ranked by strategic value and feasibility so future investment decisions can be made quickly with less rediscovery.
- Experiment design for future bets — Design validation experiments for publication throughput operations so future bets can be tested before major investmen…
- Future opportunity research — Capture long-horizon opportunities for template production pipeline with user impact and strategic fit.
- Prerequisite and dependency mapping — Map enabling prerequisites and dependencies for quality rubric + review process to reduce future startup cost.
infra tooling (Sr Engineer Architect)
Long-horizon opportunities for developer tooling, local workflow reliability, and deployment execution safety are captured as concrete hypotheses with user impact, prerequisites, and evaluation criteria. Ideas are ranked by strategic value and feasibility so future investment decisions can be made quickly with less rediscovery.
- MX far-future portfolio review and disposition — Own the far-future milestone review artifact: confirm the portfolio is current, rank ideas with prerequisites and owner…
integrations platform (Head of Engineering)
Long-horizon opportunities for deployment, billing, 5T connectivity, and operational reliability/launch integration are captured as concrete hypotheses with user impact, prerequisites, and evaluation criteria. Ideas are ranked by strategic value and feasibility so future investment decisions can be made quickly with less rediscovery.
- Experiment design for future bets — Design validation experiments for reliability + launch operations so future bets can be tested before major investment.
- Future opportunity research — Capture long-horizon opportunities for platform deployment/integration path with user impact and strategic fit.
- Prerequisite and dependency mapping — Map enabling prerequisites and dependencies for billing/connectivity operations to reduce future startup cost.