Rill

Rill is a business intelligence tool that uses a natural language interface to provide visual insights, metric exploration, and embeddable dashboards.

Rill operates as a business intelligence platform that combines an AI-powered natural language interface with code-defined analytics. Users define data assets as SQL and YAML in GitHub projects to create a single source of truth across the organization. The tool allows anyone to ask open-ended questions about large datasets and receive visual, verifiable answers without waiting for custom analyst reports. It includes features for time series analysis, anomaly detection, and metric exploration, alongside interactive dashboards that users can filter and drill down into. Companies can embed these custom-themed dashboards directly into their own applications to provide data to external partners or customers. It supports various infrastructure options, allowing users to connect their own databases like Snowflake or ClickHouse or utilize Rill’s managed services.

Rill at a glance

Best for: Finance, Product manager
Runs on: Web, API, CLI
Pricing: Starter plan for up to 20 seats; Growth $500/month; Enterprise custom pricing; seat and usage-based infrastructure fees apply.
Released: December 2021
Category: AI research tool
Website: rilldata.com

Key features

Natural language queries for data analysis
BI-as-code management using SQL and YAML
Interactive dashboard and report building
Time series and metric anomaly detection
Embedded white-label analytics
Drill-down data exploration
Semantic layer for consistent metrics

Use it for

Automating custom data requests for engineering teams
Embedding interactive analytics in customer applications
Exploratory data analysis on large datasets
Operational BI for real-time decision-making

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