Ask business questions in plain English, get answers from BigQuery

Lets anyone type a plain-English question into a chat box and get back real results pulled from your data warehouse.

How the work actually flows

A straight line.

Pattern: Sequence (1)

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The problem it solves

Only people who know SQL can pull answers straight from your data warehouse, so everyone else waits on an analyst for even simple questions. That bottleneck slows down decisions that should take minutes.

Who it fits

Analysts, customer-success teams, and business stakeholders who need data answers without writing SQL.

How it works

  1. Starts when someone types a question into a chat box
  2. Looks up the current table and column structure in BigQuery
  3. AI writes a matching SQL query using only real fields
  4. Runs the query in BigQuery and returns the results
  5. Remembers the conversation so you can ask follow-up questions
What you get

Data answers without writing SQL

You get instant answers to business questions pulled straight from your data warehouse, no SQL knowledge required.

What you get

A table of real results from your data warehouse, delivered in a chat conversation.

What you need

A Google BigQuery account and an OpenAI API key.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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