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Mallory Mejias: Jul 9, 2026 11:00:34 AM
Summary: It’s been 130 episodes since Sidecar Sync last did a true deep dive on data—and a lot has changed. In this refreshed 2026 perspective, Amith...
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Associations are intimately familiar with the concept of vendor lock-in. For decades, technology planning has often meant choosing a single ecosystem...
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For decades, the user interface was the product. When an association purchased an enterprise software system, the implicit agreement was that staff...
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Mallory Mejias: May 21, 2026 5:06:53 PM
Summary: In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias dig into two major shifts happening beneath the surface of AI: how...
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Imagine you want to answer a seemingly simple question about your association's membership: Are there geographic trends in your year-over-year...
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Mallory Mejias: May 12, 2026 10:38:21 AM
Summary: In this episode of the Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias dig into the hidden world of “dark databases”—messy, undocumented...
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Mallory Mejias: Mar 13, 2026 11:38:01 AM
Eighty percent of organizations surveyed in Anthropic's 2026 State of AI Agents Report say agents have already delivered measurable financial impact....
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Mallory Mejias: Mar 4, 2026 6:30:00 AM
When association leaders hear the term "AI data platform," there's usually a familiar response: "Oh, so it's like a data warehouse?" Not quite.
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Mallory Mejias: Feb 12, 2026 6:30:00 AM
Associations are adopting AI at a pace that would have been hard to imagine even two years ago. Content generation, member service tools, internal...