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Notes on discovery, safe AI analysis, and getting from question to decision.
How to Use Phaide via MCP
A full setup guide for connecting Phaide to Claude — or any MCP client. Paste one URL, approve the connection in your browser, and start asking questions of your own tables from the chat you already use.
How Do You Safely Connect an AI to a Production Database? Why a Read-Only User Isn't Enough
Creating a read-only database user is not enough when you let an AI read production data. Using PostgreSQL as the example, here's how to put a Query Broker between the AI and the database — and narrow both the data it sees and the work it can run.
Phaide AI is live: AI agents that explore your data and find problems for you
From open-source quelmap and Lightning-4b to Phaide AI — autonomous data exploration, automatic masking, dashboards, and documents. Launching today on Product Hunt.
What is Agentic BI? The Next Evolution of Business Intelligence
Learn what Agentic BI is, how it differs from Tableau, Power BI, and Metabase, and where Hex, Omni, and Basedash fit in.
Why Your Data Team Is Still Asking the Wrong Questions (And How Agentic Analytics Fixes That)
Traditional BI and AI copilots only work when someone already suspects a problem. See why agentic analytics shifts data teams from reactive querying to autonomous discovery.
What Is AI-Powered Data Analysis? Benefits, Challenges, and the Services That Make It Work
A structured guide to AI-powered data analysis — from the fundamentals to real business use cases, the benefits and challenges of adoption, and the leading services.
Describe the Dashboard You Want. Phaide Builds It.
Give Phaide a name and a goal in plain language, and an AI agent writes, tests, and assembles a live, shareable dashboard from your own data.
Analyze Customer Data While Names, Emails, and IDs Stay Hidden from the AI
Phaide masks sensitive columns the moment data is imported, and catches sensitive values the instant you type them in chat — so the AI sees patterns, never the people behind them.
Turn One Question Into a Full Data Investigation
Discover Mode flips Phaide AI's chat from a question-answerer into an investigator that explores your data from every angle and reports back what matters.
Type One Question, Get a Full Data Investigation Back
Discover turns a single plain-language question into a complete, multi-angle analysis report — findings, interactive charts, and follow-up all in one place.
Turn Your Analysis Into a Polished Deck, Spreadsheet, or Report — Without Leaving the Chat
Ask in plain language and Phaide AI builds a ready-to-send PowerPoint, Excel, or Word file from the data analysis already in your conversation — formatted, downloadable, and tenant-secure.
Wake Up to Fresh Analysis: Put Data Exploration on a Schedule
Turn any one-off AI exploration into a standing job. Phaide AI now reruns your analysis on the cadence you choose and leaves a fresh report waiting.
Run the Numbers Yourself: Reports You Can Operate, Not Just Read
Interactive Widgets turn an AI analysis report into a live tool. Adjust the inputs, press one button, and a sandboxed function runs on your data to return a fresh answer — no code, no new prompt.
Stop Re-Explaining Your Business to the AI on Every Chat
The Knowledge Base stores the company, product, and pipeline context your data can't speak for itself — so every analysis starts already knowing how your business works.
Why Phaide AI Runs on LiteLLM: Provider Abstraction, Routing, and Operational Control at Scale
See why Phaide AI runs on LiteLLM for provider abstraction, routing, and operational control - plus what enterprise engineers should evaluate first.
Plug Phaide's Analysis Engine Into Any AI Agent
Phaide now runs as an MCP server. Point any chatbot or agent at a single endpoint, authenticate with a developer API key, and get back answers, charts, and tables drawn from your organization's data.
An AI Analyst That Remembers Your Business, Session After Session
Memory lets Phaide AI record what it learns about your data and company as it works — and carry that context into every future chat, dashboard, and exploration.
Rotate It, Annotate It, Zoom In: Charts That Refuse to Sit Still
Phaide AI's plot rendering turns a plain-English question into a fully interactive chart — including 3D surfaces and annotated graphs that most BI tools simply can't draw.
The Insights You Never Thought to Ask About
Phaide reads your own data, hunts for counterintuitive facts, verifies them, and lays them on your home screen — findings you'd never have searched for, waiting the moment you sign in.
Put Your Best Analyses in Your Whole Team's Hands
Share chats and dashboards with anyone in your organization, and control exactly who can view, edit, or manage with Owner, Editor, and Viewer roles.
Agentic Analytics Is Here: What It Actually Means for Your Data Team
See how agentic analytics changes day-to-day work for enterprise data teams, from governance to ROI, and why most pilots stall before production.
Give it a shot — this is something different.
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