Analytics is where AI tooling meets the least forgiving audience, because a marketing team can spot a number that is wrong. That makes reconciliation the first test: if a tool’s revenue figure does not tie back to the platform it pulled from, nothing built on top of it matters.
A growing share of this category is connectors that let an AI assistant query your marketing accounts in plain language. They save time on routine questions, and they raise a question the dashboard era did not: what the assistant is allowed to do. Entries here record whether access is read-only and which sources are covered.
Attribution deserves scepticism. Every model allocates credit under assumptions, and the value of a tool lies in how visible those assumptions are. A tool that shows its window, model and exclusions lets you argue with the output.
On the AI layer, entries separate anomaly detection, which earns its place, from narrative summaries that restate a chart, and say which one you are paying for.