Dagster

Hey Product Hunt, I’m Pete, CEO at Dagster! We just launched Compass: collaborative AI-powered insights in Slack powered by your data warehouse. Finally, you can get to the “why” behind your metrics in seconds, not days.

We originally built Compass as an internal tool to solve our own business problems. We have a great data team, and built out a comprehensive data warehouse containing all of our critical business data like sales opportunities, marketing campaign performance, and product engagement analytics.

However, we struggled to really leverage this data at our organization. Our BI dashboards were great at telling us the “what” - how our sales pipeline is trending, how many DAUs we have vs MAUs, what our AWS spend was last week, etc - but it didn’t tell us the “why.” Why is pipeline down? Why did DAUs spike? What drove our AWS spend increase? Etc.

We had these sorts of questions on a daily basis. And every time we did, we’d file a ticket for our excellent  data or revops teams, interrupt their day, and wait a few hours or day or two to get an answer.

Like many companies, we built an internal Slackbot to solve this problem. Anyone could ask it a question in natural language, and it would return an answer, complete with data visualizations and its methodology.

It took off like wildfire, and a majority of our employees started using it on a weekly basis. We decided to turn this internal tool into a fully supported product offering we’re calling Compass.

How Compass is different

We took a different approach than a lot of other AI tools in this space.

🖥️Slack native. We exist solely within Slack. There’s no separate web app to long into, so it’s easy for users to get started immediately.

👥Fundamentally multiplayer. We let data people, business stakeholders, and AI all work together seamlessly to iterate to the right answer.

🏋️Proactive. In addition to answering questions, Compass will deliver personalized data insights every day, surfacing useful trends and starting points for analysis. One of our customers (a highly successful tech unicorn) found a support issue impacting $10mm+ in revenue in the first week.

🧠Crowdsourced business context. This is our secret sauce: we automatically and continuously learn business context based on properties of the data, characteristics of the business, and, most importantly, end-user interactions.

All of this is governed by a gitops workflow, which keeps the data team in control and brings a real SDLC to context engineering.

Who is it for?

Compass is about bridging the data team and the business. Data teams - anyone that manages a modern data warehouse like Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery or Athena - will benefit, as will their stakeholders: sales leaders, marketing leaders, recruiting leaders, executives, as well as ICs.

Get started at compass.dagster.io. Onboarding only takes a few minutes, and if you sign up before the end of the year your first month is free!

Strong launch Pete. Compass feels powerful and focused. Congrats to you and the team.

If you dont mind me asking? What are the 3 top use-cases for this?

This is the kind of thing that makes you wonder why every data tool isn’t just… in chat already. Nice launch!

How does Compass handle ambiguous or poorly phrased queries in Slack? Does it ask clarifying questions or make assumptions?

How does GitOps-backed context actually work in practice? are all changes versioned and reviewable before going live? Congrats.

Absolutely amazing!