Real-time data (and everything else)
Real-time context is the line between intelligent systems and non-intelligent ones.
Batch-only estates produce decisions about a world that has already moved. Intelligent products—human or agent—need context that is fresh enough to act.
Real-time does not mean everything is a hot path. It means incremental computation, bounded latency where it matters, and honesty about staleness everywhere else.
No animals have ever been harmed by data freshness—especially when it is incrementally computed. Stale context, on the other hand, harms customers, models, and operators every day.
