Chitrang ShahFounder

United States - San Carlos, California

Working on bringing analytics and automation together to help analysts and ops teams automate data-driven workflows.

Why? - The answer is rather personal.

As a data-driven leader, I have been hacking my way to extract signals from the noise all my life. And despite having access to cutting-edge data platforms and analytic tools, I found myself running analyses manually in Excel and SQL. Over and over again.

Why? Because these platforms simply couldn’t anticipate the operational questions I would have and provide insights when and where I needed it. The only option was to manually stitch the data and run my own analyses.

At first, I assumed BI tools must have solved this problem… They indeed are good at the type of analytics I wanted to run, but I was disappointed with their automation capabilities for pulling data from and publishing analytics to business apps. That led me to experiment with several automation tools like Zapier. These tools are great at automating repeat tasks but unfortunately can’t support analytics.

What I wanted is one tool that did both analytics and automation, and to my surprise, no such tool existed. It felt as if we convinced ourselves that only engineers need to automate analytics and that business folks like me shouldn’t be involved.

Clearly, that's not true today and we don’t believe it will be true in the future. The modern data stack needs to recognize that I and millions of others like me exist and that there needs to be a tool purpose-built for our needs. That is why we are building Savant, the analytics automation platform for analysts and operations teams.

Check out our website and ping me if you’d like to learn more!