Insight Assistant: Applying AI the Astral Forest Way -Part 1

 In this first part of the episode, we take you behind the scenes of how the Insight Assistant was born - a tool designed to change the way the iGaming industry works with data. Our guest, Katarzyna Kosyl, is responsible for the technical architecture and logical structure of the solution. She shares the story of how the idea emerged, why existing tools just weren’t enough, and how Astral Forest decided to do things differently - drawing on lessons from other industries and creating something truly tailored to the needs of operators, game studios, and data teams in online casinos, sportsbooks, lotteries, and social casinos. You’ll hear about early prototypes (including a first rollout at a Swiss casino), the challenges of working with local AI models, and how switching to cloud-based large language models made all the difference. This is an episode about experimentation, iteration, and building an assistant that actually understands - not guesses. A tool that supports real decision-making, handles data responsibly, and avoids hallucinations with smart architecture, clean knowledge bases, and carefully designed prompts.