From Question-First to Analyst-First: Domain-Expert Skills and Verified Knowledge Compilation for Proactive Enterprise Analytics

arXiv:2608.28594v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conversational analytics systems assume the user already has a well-formed question, leaving a non-expert facing a blank query box on an unfamiliar enterprise schema. Commercial 'proactive' tools narrow this gap only by detecting statistical anomalies over analyst-curated metric layers, and academic next-question recommenders depend on query logs that a fresh dataset lacks. We describe a production analytics system that inverts the interaction mode