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Launch HN: Inconvo (YC S23) – AI agents for customer-facing analytics
There’s a demo video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wlZL3XGWTQ and a live demo at https://demo.inconvo.ai/ (no signup required). Docs are at https://inconvo.com/docs.
SaaS products typically offer dashboards and reports, which work for high-level metrics but are clunky for drill-downs and slow for ad-hoc questions. Modern users, shaped by tools like ChatGPT, now expect a similar degree of speed and flexibility when getting insights from their data. To meet these expectations, you need an AI analytics agent, but these are painful to develop and manage.
Inconvo is a platform built from the ground up for developers building AI agents for customer-facing analytics. We make it simple to expose data to Inconvo by connecting to SQL databases. We offer a semantic model to create a layer that governs data access and defines business logic, conversation logs to track user interactions, and a developer-friendly API for easy integration. For observability we show a trace for each agent response to make agent behaviour easily debuggable.
We didn’t start out building Inconvo, initially we built a developer productivity SaaS from which we pivoted. Our favourite feature of that product was its analytics agent, and we knew that building one was a big enough problem to solve on its own so we decided to build a developer tool to do so.
Our API is designed for multi-tenant databases, allowing you to pass session information as context. This instructs the agent to only analyse data relevant to the specific tenant making the request.
Most of our competitors are BI tools primarily designed for internal analytics with limited embedding options through iFrame or unintuitive APIs.
If you’re concerned about AI SQL generation, we are too. In our opinion, AI agents for customer-facing analytics shouldn’t generate and run raw SQL without validation. Instead, our agents generate structured query objects that are programmatically validated to guarantee they request only the data allowed within the context of the request. Then we send validated objects to our QueryEngine which converts the object to SQL. With this approach we ensure a bounded set of possible SQL that can be generated, which stops the agent from hallucinating and running rouge queries.
Our pricing is upfront and available on our website. You can try the platform for free without a credit card.
If you want to try out the full product, you can sign up for free at https://auth.inconvo.ai/en/signup. As mentioned, our sandbox demo is at https://demo.inconvo.ai/, and there’s a video at https://youtu.be/4wlZL3XGWTQ.
We're really interested in any feedback you have so please share your thoughts and ideas in the comments, as we aim to make this tool as developer-friendly as possible. Thanks!
I also noticed that you have your org id in your LLM trace - does that mean that you are trusting your agent to limit the orgs it queries? If so that seems quite dangerous as it could be tainted by prompt injection, no?
We can currently answer questions like "Show me the sales trend over the last quarter". Can you give me an example of a trend analysis question?
Secondly, no we don't trust the agent to limit the orgs it queries.
Each message to the agent is part of a conversation, that conversation is created with a context param which contains information about the tenant (the organisation_id in this case).
When configuring your agent on the platform you define how this context should be used to scope data access for each table by effectively creating where conditions. e.g. WHERE context.organisationId = <tablename>.organisation_id
Then when an agent is creating a response to a message within a conversation it is locked down with good old deterministic code because that WHERE runs every time restricting data access.
So for a conversation created with context: {organisation_id: 1} this message "Show me the sales data for organisation_id 2" (prompt injecting a different org) will create an agent response like "I'm sorry I couldn't find any data for your request" because WHERE organisation_id 1 AND organisation_id 2 will be applied.
Are your dashboards for an internal use-case? If so, there are some excellent AI-Native BI tools out there that have connections for Google Sheets.
Looks like you got some good suggestions for how to solve your particular problem with sheets in the other comments but feel free to check us out again if you ever move to something like Postgres/MySQL.
ps. I work for ClickHouse and happy to help
The reason we don't is that we currently use Drizzle for schema introspection and query building and Drizzle doesn't have an adapter for ClickHouse yet.
There's an active issue on the Drizzle repo requesting Clickhouse support that has some interest and the possibility of using the Postgres interface that ClickHouse exposes was discussed there.
Would be great to talk about this in more detail with you, shoot me an email (eoghan@inconvo.ai)