https://community.databricks.com/t5/genie-hub/why-we-didn-t-build-one-big-genie-room/m-p/168116#M57 <P><STRONG>When we started, the obvious move looked like one big Genie Room</STRONG> — put everything in, let people ask anything. We went a different way, and it's held up, so I wanted to share the reasoning rather than the conclusion.</P> <P>This was for a UK enterprise Finance function, and we split it in two:</P> <UL> <LI><STRONG>Narrow, trusted rooms. Two rooms — one operational, one financial — each pointed at a single objective.</STRONG> <STRONG>A Genie Room is at its best around 7 tables; it copes with 30</STRONG>; it struggles at 100. Keeping each room tight is what makes the answers trustworthy.</LI> <LI><STRONG>One blended, exploratory room.</STRONG> A separate space across finance, operations and HR (SAP, SAP Analytics Cloud, Workday) for the cross-functional questions no single system can answer alone.</LI> </UL> <P>The rule we landed on: let the question set the scope — narrow when you need trust, broad when you're exploring. And put access controls in at the start, not as a retrofit.</P> <P>Curious how others are drawing that line.</P> Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:02:32 GMT Valeria_Koz_DBX 2026-09-09T17:02:32Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/genie-hub/why-we-didn-t-build-one-big-genie-room/m-p/168116#M57 <P><STRONG>When we started, the obvious move looked like one big Genie Room</STRONG> — put everything in, let people ask anything. We went a different way, and it's held up, so I wanted to share the reasoning rather than the conclusion.</P> <P>This was for a UK enterprise Finance function, and we split it in two:</P> <UL> <LI><STRONG>Narrow, trusted rooms. Two rooms — one operational, one financial — each pointed at a single objective.</STRONG> <STRONG>A Genie Room is at its best around 7 tables; it copes with 30</STRONG>; it struggles at 100. Keeping each room tight is what makes the answers trustworthy.</LI> <LI><STRONG>One blended, exploratory room.</STRONG> A separate space across finance, operations and HR (SAP, SAP Analytics Cloud, Workday) for the cross-functional questions no single system can answer alone.</LI> </UL> <P>The rule we landed on: let the question set the scope — narrow when you need trust, broad when you're exploring. And put access controls in at the start, not as a retrofit.</P> <P>Curious how others are drawing that line.</P> Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:02:32 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/genie-hub/why-we-didn-t-build-one-big-genie-room/m-p/168116#M57 Valeria_Koz_DBX 2026-09-09T17:02:32Z