# MotherDuck: an investigation answered in 30 seconds

MotherDuck's Hilary Brennan-Marquez shares how Annie answered an investigation in 30 seconds that she estimated would take a person 20 minutes to two hours.

Author: Anyshift

Published: 2026-09-28

Source: https://anyshift.io/blog/motherduck-investigation-in-thirty-seconds

Hilary Brennan-Marquez, Head of Infrastructure at MotherDuck, shares her team's experience using Annie to investigate production issues in the video above.

## From a manual investigation to an answer in seconds

> "A process that would have taken a human being, even one very familiar with the code, 20 minutes at best, two hours at worst. Annie had it for us in 30 seconds."

— Hilary Brennan-Marquez, Head of Infrastructure at MotherDuck

The comparison is Hilary's estimate for that investigation: time to an answer, not time to restore service or a controlled benchmark.

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