Sidecar Sync
Sidecar Sync
Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias
Dark Databases & the State of AI Video | 133
45 minutes Posted May 7, 2026 at 10:00 am.
Welcome to Sidecar Sync
The Mystery of Dark Databases
How DBAutoDoc Tackles the Data Mess
Verifying the AI’s Database Detective Work
Messy Data, Clean Maps, and AI Readiness
How Associations Can Try DBAutoDoc
Sora Shuts Down, but AI Video Heats Up
What AI Video Could Mean for Associations
The Power of Focus in the AI Era
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Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias dig into the hidden world of “dark databases”—messy, undocumented systems quietly powering many associations—and explore DBAutoDoc, a new open-source tool from Amith and Thomas Altman that uses AI to map database structure, infer relationships, and generate documentation at scale. Amith & Mallory also unpack the state of AI video after OpenAI’s Sora shutdown, explaining why the category is not cooling off...