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BigQuery · Head of IT

BigQuery: Built for Head of IT

Your Google BigQuery data holds answers nobody has time to extract. Ward reads it via read-only APIs. Your Technology team has the data. What they don't have is bandwidth to find what's buried in it.

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Overview

Ward + BigQuery for Head of IT / VP Technology

Ward connects to Google BigQuery and delivers AI-powered insight cards tailored for technology leaders. Ward queries BigQuery using your existing datasets. GA4 exports, POS data, CRM exports. Ward reads it where it lives.

The business wants AI. You sign off on the architecture. Ward solves this by reading BigQuery data, including any bigquery dataset, ga4 event exports, ads data transfers, custom etl outputs. Insight cards arrive with root cause analysis and recommended actions.

Setup: Service account with BigQuery Data Viewer role. Ward runs read-only SQL queries on your schedule.

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Acme Retail @Merchandising: VP Analyst claude-sonnet default
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Chat

Ask anything. Ward routes to the right agent and returns cited answers.

Why did Store 37 miss target last week?
You · 9:42 AM
Schema Scout · routed to Merchandising Agent

I pulled Store 37’s last 28 days against the chain baseline. Two root causes — both compounding.

SignalFinding
labor_efficiencyRev/labor-hour −22% vs. cluster — staffing mismatch at 11a–1p peak
inventory.freshFresh fill 83% — backroom replenishment lag at 2–4p
promo.liftBOGO crackers cannibalized Brand Y by 28% — net category +6%

Recommend: re-baseline Store 37 schedule against true peak, raise replen window to 1p, and review the BOGO before next cycle.

8 parallel queries 3 sources cited confidence 0.92
Show me how to fix the staffing mismatch.
You · 9:43 AM
Labor Agent · drafting schedule diff
Querying labor_scheduling…
› Ask anything — Ward routes to the right agent. Cmd+K

Dashboards

Pinned views built from saved data-lake queries.

Revenue vs. forecast +4.2% WoW
Gross margin % −3.2pp
Fill rate — fresh 83%
Shrink — West region +0.8pp

Models

Browse, search, and manage data–lake model definitions for your tenant.

Search models…
NameNamespaceVersion
retail_pos_transactionsretail1.0
retail_inventory_snapshotretail1.2
retail_labor_schedulingretail1.0
retail_promo_calendarretail1.1
retail_supplier_performanceretail1.0
sap_inventory_shrinkagesap1.0
ga4_daily_eventsmarketing1.0
meta_ads_ad_levelmarketing1.0

Sources

Connect external systems to the data lake.

Search sources…
NameTypeLast sync
sap_pos_transactionsimport2m ago
sap_inventory_shrinkageimport2m ago
sap_labor_schedulingimport14m ago
retail_inventory_weeklyimport1h ago
retail_google_ads_dailyimport1h ago
retail_meta_ads_dailyimport1h ago
retail_ga4_website_dailyimport1h ago

Architecture

Two ways to connect. Federate against your live systems, or ingest into Ward’s data lake. Toggle below.

Your systems · read-only
SAP Retail
Snowflake
BigQuery
Shopify
Toast POS
Ward Gateway
TLS 1.3 · AES-256
Querying live · data stays put
Federated answers
SELECT * FROM sap.pos
JOIN snow.inventory
WHERE store_id = 37
→ insight cards
Ward Data Lake
→ baselined per store
TLS 1.3 in transit AES-256 at rest Read-only credentials SOC 2 II in progress VPC peering · PrivateLink

Pipelines

Move data from sources into models on a schedule.

NameSourceModelStatusSchedule
sync_sap_pos_transactionssap_pos_transactionspos_transactionsenabledhourly
sync_sap_labor_schedulingsap_labor_schedulinglabor_schedulingenableddaily
sync_sap_inventory_shrinkagesap_inventory_shrinkageinventory_shrinkageenableddaily
sync_retail_inventory_weeklyretail_inventory_weeklyinventory_weeklyenabledweekly
sync_retail_google_ads_dailyretail_google_ads_dailygoogle_ads_dailyenableddaily
sync_retail_ga4_website_dailyretail_ga4_website_dailyga4_website_dailyenableddaily

Streams

Real-time ingestion pipelines.

0events / min
0streams active
0% delivered
  • pos.txn store_037 — basket $42.18
  • inv.move dc_west → store_104
  • labor.clock store_022 shift_start
  • pos.txn store_211 — basket $19.04

Policies

Browse and manage Cedar access policies for your tenant.

TLS 1.3 AES-256 Read-only SOC 2 II
Policy IDEffectResources
merch-read-defaultpermitModel::*
finance-read-shrinkagepermitModel::"shrinkage"
vendor-blockedforbidModel::"labor_*"
region-west-onlypermitTenant::"acme"

Entities

Principals and resources referenced by Cedar policies.

Search UIDs…
Entity UIDTypeTenant
Tenant::"acme"Tenantacme
Model::"sap.pos_transactions"Modelacme
Model::"sap.inventory_shrinkage"Modelacme
Model::"sap.labor_scheduling"Modelacme
Model::"retail.toast_pos_daily"Modelacme
Model::"retail.ga4_website_daily"Modelacme

Providers

Manage LLM API keys and the model profiles that use them.

API Keys Model Profiles
NameProviderUsed byCreated
anthropic-defaultAnthropic3 profilesApr 22
openai-defaultOpenAI2 profilesApr 22
gemini-defaultGemini1 profileApr 22
ollama-onpremOllama2 profilesApr 22

LLM-agnostic. Bring your own key, route per task. No lock-in.

Settings

Manage your dashboard preferences and account.

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Account
NameAdmin
Emailadmin@acme.io
Tenantacme-retail
Live product demo — Ward analyzing retail data in real time.

What Ward delivers

  • Federated query: data stays in your warehouse. No copies, no shadow lake
  • Read-only credentials. Cedar policies enforce least-privilege per agent
  • LLM-agnostic. Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Ollama. Bring your own keys
  • Every query, every model, every source logged. SIEM-ready audit output
  • VPC peering, PrivateLink, SOC 2 II. Your security review is short

Data Ward reads from BigQuery

Any BigQuery dataset
GA4 event exports
Ads data transfers
Custom ETL outputs
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Integration

How Ward connects to Google BigQuery

Ward queries BigQuery using your existing datasets. GA4 exports, POS data, CRM exports. Ward reads it where it lives.

Setup: Service account with BigQuery Data Viewer role. Ward runs read-only SQL queries on your schedule.

Data Ward reads from BigQuery

Any BigQuery dataset
GA4 event exports
Ads data transfers
Custom ETL outputs

Impact metrics with BigQuery

Time to Insight
No staging required
GA4, POS, and CRM datasets queried in place.
Marketing Attribution
Online-offline linked
GA4 events joined with in-store POS to close attribution gaps.
Data Activation
Historical data unlocked
Years of unqueried BigQuery data brought into analysis.
Anomaly Detection Speed
Always-on monitoring
Deviations caught between scheduled dashboard reviews.

Data lake enrichment

Ward enriches BigQuery data with: Any BigQuery dataset, GA4 event exports, Weather & events, Demographics, Custom feeds

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For Technology

The business wants AI. You sign off on the architecture.

Pain points
  • ×Business sponsor already chose the vendor. You inherit the security review
  • ×Every AI vendor wants write access and a copy of the production data
  • ×Model lock-in means rewriting the stack when GPT or Claude moves again
  • ×Audit trail is an afterthought. Compliance has nothing to pull on
  • ×Data lake project keeps getting bumped for the next thing the business wants
How Ward helps
  • ✓Federated query: data stays in your warehouse. No copies, no shadow lake
  • ✓Read-only credentials. Cedar policies enforce least-privilege per agent
  • ✓LLM-agnostic. Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Ollama. Bring your own keys
  • ✓Every query, every model, every source logged. SIEM-ready audit output
  • ✓VPC peering, PrivateLink, SOC 2 II. Your security review is short

74% of enterprise AI projects stall before production. Integration debt and security review are the top two reasons. Source: Gartner

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Sample insight

What a Ward insight card looks like

Ward · Ward06:47 AM

Architecture packet: data flow diagram, Cedar policy bundle, SOC 2 II report, sub-processor list, network topology. Read-only by default. SIEM-ready logs. Available before the pilot starts.

✓ Action recommendedBigQuery data
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Service account with BigQuery Data Viewer role. Ward runs read-only SQL queries on your schedule. Data points include: Any BigQuery dataset, GA4 event exports, Ads data transfers, Custom ETL outputs.

The business wants AI. You sign off on the architecture. Ward solves this with automated insight cards: Federated query: data stays in your warehouse. No copies, no shadow lake. Read-only credentials. Cedar policies enforce least-privilege per agent. LLM-agnostic. Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Ollama. Bring your own keys.

First insight cards arrive within 48 hours of data connection. Ward needs approximately 2 weeks to establish robust baselines for your specific operation.

No. Ward sits on top of your existing stack. It is the proactive intelligence layer that watches your data continuously and delivers insight cards — so your team acts on findings instead of hunting for them.

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The Closed Loop
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Insights surface

Ward’s agents detect what changed, why it matters, and what to do about it. Every insight includes a recommended action. Not just a chart to interpret.

Real-time detection Root cause + recommendation
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Insights become actions

Any insight card can be turned into a tracked ticket or task. Dispatched to the right person, on the right channel: mobile push, text, or email. Not every insight needs a ticket. When one does, it has an owner.

Tickets created automatically Dispatched to the right person
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Your team responds

Insights get voted up or down with reasoning. Tickets get completed or rejected. Every response is a signal. Ward learns what worked, what missed, and why.

Vote up / down Ticket completed Reasoning attached
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Outcomes measured

Ward evaluates real results: revenue, margin, fill rate, labor cost. Did the action actually improve the number it targeted? Measured outcomes, not assumptions.

KPI impact tracked Results vs. prediction scored
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Agents get sharper

Every vote, every completed ticket, every measured outcome feeds back in. Ward learns from your team’s judgment and real-world results. Each cycle sharpens the next. Then it starts again.

Cycle repeats, sharper each time
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