Average Is All You Need

LLMs are making average output cheap and accessible, shifting the human role from technical execution to high-level thinking, especially in complex fields like data analysis.

Average Is All You Need

LLMs will make more of your average stuff. And that's OK.

This is not going to be much of a hot take but whether we like it or not, whether we want to admit it or not: LLMs have eaten the world.

They first had a go at creative fields where they essentially made everyone capable of publishing an average text with some average ideas for an average audience, but incredibly fast and easy. Whereas before, average was expensive in terms of both time and effort, average became cheap.

Software is now getting the same treatment. Very likely other fields are going to experience the same average treatment; and bets are high on everything text and based on descriptive textual semantics (IP, lawyers, translators, Marvel movies...)

Now there is nothing inherently bad about average stuff, it sits, by definition, in the middle of the normal distribution of stuff. It is in fact amazing that anyone can now create average things whereas before they had to fight hard for sub-par; they now have to settle for average or do better and try to think about it.

I can't draw. But now, I still can't draw, but better.

Data is the same problem, but better.

Here is the thing about data: your intuitive knowledge of what you want from it is much higher than average. You know what is in your organisation's data and you can likely "feel" what is hidden in it. You just do not necessarily know how to get the information out of it effectively; most people do not write SQL that well, do not understand syncing strategies that intuitively, do not know how to generate charts that nicely.

You know who does incredibly, amazingly, averagely well at all of that? Any LLM.

So that is what we built rawquery for. A data platform that is designed to be operated by LLM agents. You connect your sources, and then you talk to Claude Code, Cursor, or whatever agent you use. You describe what you want in plain language. The agent writes the SQL, runs the queries, creates the charts, publishes the results.

It deals with the average. You deal with the thinking.

The scenario.

I have transactional data: literally transactional from Stripe. And I have an email campaign that I launched from HubSpot. And I want to know, simply, if the fact that I did a mailing campaign increased my average basket or the number of customers.

In the good old days I would do what is called an attribution model, which is some sort of wankery to say "hey is one linked to another or not, here are 5 different ways to prove to your manager you did something useful."

But this is a pain, first because, if you do anything that is not selling a product online that people can buy right when they click a button, it is a drag to create those attribution models effectively: is it last click, first click, weighted attribution... who knows. Nobody knows. Everybody gives up and just adds it to a dashboard and pretends it makes sense.

Now, what if you could just describe the joins and correlations you want, in plain English, and get the chart at the end?

Here is how it would look.

Step 1. Connect your sources.

You tell Claude Code: "connect my Stripe and my HubSpot to rawquery."

rq connections create stripe-prod --type stripe -p api_key=sk_live_xxx
rq connections create hubspot-crm --type hubspot -p access_token=pat-xxx

Then syncs both:

rq connections sync stripe-prod
rq connections sync hubspot-crm

Two minutes later, your data is in. Claude checks what landed:

rq schemas

Step 2. You talk. The agent queries.

You say to Claude: "I ran an email campaign called 'spring-sale-2026' in March. Did it actually move the needle on revenue? Compare people who received the email vs. those who didn't."

Claude doesn't ask you to define an attribution model. It runs the SQL, joins the tables, and gives you the cohort analysis. The email cohort has a 46% higher average basket. You did not write a single line of SQL. You asked a question, in English, and got a table.