Ben Bausili

Product Leader | I Build, Sell, and Scale Technology

Short Bio

I’m the product leader behind Curator by InterWorks, where I’ve tripled revenue, led our transformation from on-prem to global SaaS, and drove our GTM strategy through sales calls, demos, positioning, and content. Before focusing on product, I spent over a decade leading consulting teams helping organizations adopt and scale data platforms—not just building dashboards, but leading strategic rollouts, facilitating organizational change, and designing solutions across the full stack from data architecture to embedded analytics.

I’ve been a longtime voice in the data community—authoring Tableau’s “Designing Efficient Dashboards” whitepaper, hosting the “Tableau Your Data” podcast, presenting at coferences, and helping shape how teams think about analytics and AI. Today, I lead the AI Center of Excellence at InterWorks with a focus on co-intelligence: deploying AI tools across the organization, building custom solutions, and helping others use AI to extend their expertise and creativity where it matters most.

When not helping clients leap forward with data and AI, I’m most at home on a hiking trail or geeking out about theme park design. My wife, Rachel, shares my love of adventure and travel, so when we’re not in a new city trying local food or exploring the great outdoors, we’re likely dreaming and planning our next family destination.

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From the Blog

November 8, 2025

AI has No Face

AI appears human, or at least like something that bears the hallmarks that we take as an individual personality we see in other humans and many animals. It’s not though. It is not only a distorted reflection of us, but it absorbs and reflects the things it consumes, often in ways we do not fully understand and often in ways we cannot predict.

That is not to say it’s inherently dangerous, I do not subscribe to the camp that says that if anybody builds it, everyone dies - though Hank Green has a great interview with Nate Soares if you are interested understanding that view point. My point is that it’s something to be careful with. Something to approach with care and caution. I think we can turn to a fictional story for a better illustration, but not in the traditional AI Sci-fi space, but in the fantasy world created by Hayao Miyazaki.

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