Cloudflare has published how it built Town Lake and Skipper, describing the data platform and internal AI agent that sit behind parts of its analytics workflow.
The post is a useful reminder that AI agents are only as good as the data, permissions, retrieval paths, and operational controls underneath them.
Why It Matters
Many businesses want an AI assistant before they have clean data access, ownership, or reporting. Cloudflare’s example points in the opposite direction: build a reliable data layer, then let AI operate against known systems.
For practical deployments, the starting point is often data hygiene, permissions, and workflow mapping rather than a model decision.