{"id":88017,"title":"Inconvo: Ask-AI for customer-facing analytics","tagline":"Build an AI-first analytics experience your users will obsess over.","body":"# **TLDR;**\n\nInconvo **makes it easy for developers to add Ask AI for customer-facing analytics** so that users can ask questions on their data in natural language. \n\n[Watch our demo!](https://youtu.be/1kpS48ifOAY)\n\nWith Inconvo, shipping AI-first analytics is easy. Just send a user question to our API, and it will respond with a chart, table, or text.\n\n# **The Problem**\n\n**Ask-AI for customer-facing analytics should deliver on its promise of being intelligent**, capable of answering dynamic user questions and not limited to a set of basic canned prompts.\n\nBut, **building genuinely intelligent Ask-AI for customer-facing analytics is hard.**\n\nYou need…\n\n**An AI Agent** to dynamically retrieve relevant data that:\n\n* Automatically connects to your database.\n* Intelligently queries, joins, filters, and transforms data based on user questions.\n* Responds with answers in human-readable formats (text, chart, table).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=88017\u0026key=user_uploads/1151062/2afe2960-8150-4296-95e6-9c522ac7381d)\n\n**AI Evaluations** to measure you agent’s performance before and after deployment that:\n\n* Allows you to build a dataset of conversation-answer pairs for evaluation.\n* Assess your agent's ability to answer these evaluation pairs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=88017\u0026key=user_uploads/1151062/0dec4f67-821f-46b1-af8a-bad3d9896a5a)\n\n**A Semantic Layer** to ensure accurate data retrieval that:\n\n* Maps user terminology to database field names.\n* Facilitates the creation of computed fields and alternative field labels.\n\n**Data Access Control** to restrict your AI agent’s database access that:\n\n* Allows you to turn off access to whole tables or individual columns.\n* Allows you to set if a table can be queried directly or only joined into.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=88017\u0026key=user_uploads/1151062/1b92ea04-f968-4ecb-b419-9495ae2b328b)\n\n**Multi-tenancy support to** ensure results are scoped to the requestor’s access that is:\n\n* Configurable on a per-request basis.\n* Defined by you based on your existing data structures.\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\n**Inconvo provides a single API call to power genuinely intelligent Ask AI for customer-facing analytics.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=88017\u0026key=user_uploads/1151062/50ba0c22-7d2e-4ff4-bd4f-8ff457adb212)\n\nBehind [this API call](https://inconvo.ai/docs/api-reference/ask), Inconvo handles all the hard problems of Ask AI for customer-facing analytics.\n\n[Inconvo connects to your database](https://inconvo.ai/docs/guides/connect/) to automatically retrieve the right data to answer your users’ questions. Then, you’re in charge of presenting the API responses to your users in a way that fits your design.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=88017\u0026key=user_uploads/1151062/d9f04fae-8c25-4146-b940-f012a65b890c)\n\n**Inconvo is purpose-built to overcome the challenges of Ask-AI for customer-facing analytics**, providing tools that handle multi-tenancy, database access control, [AI evaluation](https://inconvo.ai/docs/guides/evaluate/), and a semantic layer.\n\n# **Our Asks**\n\n**Share** - talk to your friends and colleagues about Inconvo.\n\n**Connect** - ping [eoghan@inconvo.ai](mailto:eoghan@inconvo.ai) if you want to chat more or make an intro.\n\n**Engage** - [book a demo call](https://inconvo.ai/request-demo).","slug":"Mtd-inconvo-ask-ai-for-customer-facing-analytics","created_at":"2025-02-25T17:26:15.958Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T01:56:31.626Z","total_vote_count":39,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mtd-inconvo-ask-ai-for-customer-facing-analytics","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=88017\u0026key=user_uploads/1151062/1d38a88c-25b0-41bb-8c09-416d9ff41e99","company":{"id":29103,"name":"Inconvo","slug":"inconvo","url":"https://inconvo.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/42126d50fed615bc74167d22b4985b25e9d25fad.png","batch":"Summer 2023","industry":"B2B","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","Developer Tools","Analytics","API"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/29103"}}