Athenic – Why you can't do data analysis with Claude
Hey HN, I'm Jared. I’ve been building data tools since 2020. Polyture, then AskEdith, now Athenic: ask a question in natural language, get a chart/dashboard, then automate it. Connects to Postgres, Salesforce, Google Ads, whatever. To everyone that says "just link Claude to your db”: imagine the chaos of conflicting definitions and analysis that would show up in a business setting. Ask “what’s our revenue?” twice, two days apart or to a different model. There’s no guarantee that you’ll get the same results. Now imagine giving that to all of the non-technical users at your company. It's…
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Hey HN, I'm Jared. I’ve been building data tools since 2020. Polyture, then AskEdith, now Athenic: ask a question in natural language, get a chart/dashboard, then automate it. Connects to Postgres, Salesforce, Google Ads, whatever. To everyone that says "just link Claude to your db”: imagine the chaos of conflicting definitions and analysis that would show up in a business setting. Ask “what’s our revenue?” twice, two days apart or to a different model. There’s no guarantee that you’ll get the same results. Now imagine giving that to all of the non-technical users at your company. It's not a model problem. We learned this the hard way. When we launched AskEdith here in 2022, and you told us (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33435361): “you'll still have to check the SQL,” “trust is everything,” “answers won’t be consistent”. You were right. Now, Athenic defines KPIs and formulas deterministically in a Semantic Model. The Semantic Model is made up of modular, composable units that can make up complex analysis, while guaranteeing determinism and accuracy. The LLM’s only responsibility is interpreting your question (which even non-technical users can double check). `revenue = sum(order_total − refunds) where status = 'completed'` Ask for revenue and everyone gets the same number, every time. Three years of learnings from working with top startups and Fortune 500 companies later, we just shipped 2.0. Chat-to-insight, plus dashboards and automations that run on a schedule and land in your email. Tell us we're wrong.
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Hey HN, as a former data analyst, I’ve been tooling around trying to get agents to do my old job. The result is this system that gets you maybe 80% of the way there. I think this is a good data point for what the current frontier models are capable of and where they are still lacking (in this case — hypothesis generation and general data intuition). Some initial learnings: - Generating web app-based reports goes much better if there are explicit templates/pre-defined components for the model to use. - Claude can “heal” broken charts if you give it access to chart images and run a…
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I participated in the Nvidia + Vercel 2 hour hackathon in SF tonight, and built something I've wanted, but hadn't tried building. I implemented an MCP Server and VS Code extension to allow Claude Desktop to place breakpoints, step through code, and execute expressions (assuming language support). So you can ask it a question that requires actually stepping through the code and now it can actually do that - check values for you, etc. It's _definitely_ not perfect. Have improvements? Please make a PR!
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