Better Analyst
Better Analyst (formerly Formula Bot) is an AI-powered data analytics platform that lets users upload files or connect live databases and ask questions in plain English to get instant charts, tables, and reports. The platform supports data visualization, transformation, and automation through reusable AI agents and scheduled tasks, eliminating the need for manual formula writing or SQL. It connects to popular sources like Google Analytics, Snowflake, and MySQL, and offers embedded analytics for product teams.
- Artificial Intelligence
- AI Agents
- Data & Analytics
- Software Only
Funding
Founders
Product
Problem
Business users and analysts often need to extract insights from spreadsheets and databases but lack the technical skills to write complex formulas, SQL queries, or build visualizations. Traditional analytics workflows are time-consuming, requiring manual data manipulation and chart creation that delays decision-making and reduces productivity.
Solution
Better Analyst provides an AI-powered data analyst platform that lets users upload files or connect live data sources and ask questions in plain English to receive instant answers, charts, tables, and reports. The platform handles data preparation, visualization, and analysis automatically, with support for multiple languages and code transparency showing the underlying Python, SQL, or R. Users can create reusable AI agents that remember business context and analytical preferences, schedule recurring analyses, and generate interactive dashboards from a single prompt. The platform also offers data enrichment, PDF-to-Excel conversion, and embedded analytics for integrating AI-powered data chat into other products.
Target Audience
Primary users are business analysts, data professionals, and non-technical team members who need to analyze spreadsheets and databases without writing code, as well as product teams seeking to embed AI-powered analytics into their own applications.
Features
- Natural language querying that converts plain-English questions into charts, tables, and insights without requiring formula or SQL knowledge
- Code transparency displaying the underlying Python, SQL, or R used for each analysis
- Reusable AI agents that store business context, analytical approach, and presentation preferences for consistent outputs
- Scheduled tasks that re-run saved analyses and deliver results on a recurring basis
- Data Context feature for defining approved tables, fields, relationships, and metric meanings for SQL database analysis
- 20+ data connectors including Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Google Ads, Tableau, Power BI, Airtable, Snowflake, BigQuery, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SharePoint
- Embedded analytics API for white-labeling the platform inside customer products
- Data enrichment tools for categorizing, extracting, and scoring rows at scale
- PDF to Excel conversion for turning bank statements and scanned tables into structured spreadsheets