NEWThe founder's guide to data

Ask your business anything.

Orcabase keeps all your business data in one place, with an AI agent that understands it. Ask a question, get the answer and the chart. No code, no data team.

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Your data

Your app's databasePayments and store exportsSpreadsheetsData warehousesAll data sources

Your AI

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The founder's problem

You have the data. You don't have the time.

Every sale and signup is already recorded somewhere. When you're running the company, nobody has time to dig it out.

  • Your numbers live everywhere.

    Payments in one tool, orders in another, costs in a spreadsheet.

  • Questions pile up.

    “Did more customers come back this month?” stays a guess.

  • Decisions run on gut feel.

    Not because you don't care. Because you don't have a spare afternoon.

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Payments
App database
Spreadsheets
Ad spend
Store orders

Data-driven, in plain words

Data-driven means deciding with evidence, not guesses.

Four steps from raw numbers to a decision. Here's how a one-person coffee subscription shop climbs them.

01

Data

“12,408 orders”

Raw facts. True, but too noisy to mean much.

02

Information

“Revenue was $48k in August”

The same facts, added up. Now you see what happened.

03

Insight

“Sampler customers stay twice as long”

A pattern that explains why. This is where the value is.

04

Decision

“Put the sampler on the homepage”

What you'll do differently. Data pays off here.

Doing this every week is what business intelligence means. Orcabase climbs the ladder with you. Read the founder's guide →

Why now

Data used to need a data team. Now it needs an agent.

An AI agent can read your data, dig for the answer and explain it. That's analysis a company of one can finally have.

The old way

  • Hire an analyst, or become one
  • Wait days for a report
  • Build dashboards you never open
  • Guess which number is right

With an agentic data warehouse

  • Ask in plain words
  • Get the answer and the chart in minutes
  • Let the agent build your dashboards
  • One agreed definition for every number

What the agent does

Not a chatbot. An analyst that shows its work.

A chatbot guesses from memory. Orcabase's agent looks at your real data, digs, checks, and tells you what it found.

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  1. 01ReadLooks at your data and the metrics you've defined, like an analyst skimming before they dig in.
  2. 02DigPulls exactly the numbers your question needs, from your real data. No guessing from memory.
  3. 03CheckLooks at what came back. Something odd? It tries again until the numbers make sense.
  4. 04ExplainTells you what it found in plain words, with a chart and every step it took.

See it answer

Ask like you'd ask a colleague.

The answer comes first: the headline, the key numbers, a chart. Every step is there if you want to check it.

Try asking

  • What were my top five products last month?
  • Which customers haven't ordered in 60 days?
  • Build me a weekly sales dashboard
  • Define “active customer” for me
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Why did revenue dip last week?

Reading orders…

Revenue fell 13% last week, and almost all of it came from one-time orders.

  • Subscriptions held steady at $8.2k (−1%).
  • One-time orders dropped from $4.1k to $2.6k (−37%).
  • The drop starts Tuesday, the day the free-shipping banner ended.

One-time orders by day

✓ Revenue · certified week before last week
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How I got this· 4 steps
  1. Used your Revenue metric (certified)
  2. Looked at your orders
  3. Pulled the last 14 days
  4. Split revenue into subscriptions and one-time orders

Teach it once

An AI is only as smart as its definitions.

Ask an AI what “revenue” means and it will guess. In Orcabase you define it once. Your dashboards, your agent and anyone you invite all use the same number.

Sales dashboard

Revenue

All orders

counts refunds as revenue

Finance spreadsheet

Revenue

Paid orders only

leaves refunds out

Revenue

✓ certified

Paid orders, minus refunds.

owner: you · version 3

Dashboards
Your team
AI agents

How it works

From scattered data to answers in an afternoon.

1

Connect

Link your app's database, upload spreadsheets, or let Orcabase host your data.

2

Define

Pick the five numbers you care about. The agent drafts them for you.

3

Ask

Ask anything. Save the good answers to a dashboard.

Affordable by design

Built for a company of one. Priced like it.

No enterprise contract. No data team. Just the answers.

01

Bring your own AI key

Pay your AI provider directly, at cost. We add no markup.

02

See what every answer costs

Every conversation shows its AI cost. No surprises.

03

Choose your model

Cheap and fast for everyday questions, stronger for the hard ones.

04

Hosting if you want it

Use the database you have, or let Orcabase host your data and pay only for storage.

05

No lock-in

Export your data anytime. It's yours, always.

06

Every feature, every plan

You pay for team size, not features.

Your data already has the answers.

Bring your data together, ask your first question, and see what your business has been trying to tell you.