Shape

Shape is a revolutionary AI data analytics platform designed to make data accessible to everyone within an organization, regardless of their technical expertise. Its core mission is to eliminate the bottlenecks and long turnaround times traditionally associated with data analysis. By allowing users to query complex databases using simple, plain English, Shape transforms how teams interact with their data. Backed by YCombinator and built by a team with experience from Meta, Shape acts as an AI data analyst that integrates directly into your existing workflows.

The platform connects securely to your data stack and interprets natural language questions as a human analyst would. It then generates advanced SQL queries, including complex joins and unions, to retrieve the precise information needed. The results are delivered not just as raw numbers, but as nuanced answers complete with automatically generated charts and clear explanations of any assumptions the AI made (e.g., how it defined 'last month'). This transparency builds trust and ensures clarity in the insights provided.

How to use Shape

Getting started with Shape is a straightforward process designed for rapid integration and immediate value:

1. Connect Your Data Stack: Securely connect Shape to your databases and data warehouses. The platform is designed to work with your existing infrastructure.
2. Integrate with Your Workflow: Add the Shape bot to your Slack or Microsoft Teams channels. This allows team members to ask questions and receive insights directly within the communication tools they use every day.
3. Ask Questions in Plain English: Any team member can now ask data-related questions naturally. For example, you can type "What was our visitor-to-lead conversion rate last month?" or "Compare the performance of editorial vs. news articles in April."
4. Receive Instant, Actionable Answers: Shape processes the request in seconds, returning a clear answer, supporting data, and an automatically generated visualization (like a chart or graph).
5. Embed Analytics (for Developers): Utilize the Shape API and React components to build AI-powered analytics and interactive dashboards directly into your own products or internal tools, offering a seamless experience to your users.

Core Features of Shape

• Natural Language Querying: Ask complex questions about your data in everyday language, eliminating the need for SQL knowledge.
• Advanced SQL Generation: The AI engine automatically writes and executes sophisticated SQL queries to fetch accurate data.
• Smart Interpretation & Nuanced Answers: Provides context and clearly states the assumptions made during analysis, moving beyond just raw data points.
• Automated Data Visualizations: Automatically generates charts and graphs to accompany answers for easier and faster interpretation.
• Seamless Workflow Integration: Offers native bots for Slack and Microsoft Teams, bringing data analytics directly into your team's conversations.
• Embeddable Analytics API: A powerful API and React components allow you to embed AI-powered dashboards and analytics into your own applications.
• Continuous Learning System: The platform's accuracy and understanding improve over time as it learns from every question asked.
• Enterprise-Grade Security: SOC 2 Type 1 certified, with all credentials stored using industry-standard encryption to ensure your data is always secure.

Use Cases for Shape

Shape is versatile and can be used by various teams to make data-driven decisions:

• Marketing Teams: Instantly analyze campaign ROI, track conversion rates, and understand customer behavior (e.g., "What was the ROI for our Q2 digital marketing campaigns?").
• Product Teams: Monitor feature adoption, analyze user engagement metrics, and understand user distribution (e.g., "What is the distribution of user team sizes?").
• Executive & Sales Teams: Track key performance indicators (KPIs), monitor subscription growth, and get high-level business insights (e.g., "How many new subscriptions did we get in the past month?").
• Content Teams: Compare the performance of different content types to optimize content strategy (e.g., "Compare editorial vs. news article performance in April?").

Advantages of Shape

Shape offers a significant competitive edge by democratizing data. It empowers non-technical team members to self-serve insights, drastically reducing the dependency on a dedicated analytics team. This frees up skilled analysts from handling repetitive ad-hoc requests, allowing them to focus on more strategic, in-depth projects. The platform's high accuracy, achieved through a combination of GPT-4, custom agents, and dataset pre-analysis, ensures that the answers are reliable. Ultimately, Shape accelerates decision-making by providing critical business answers in seconds, not days or weeks.

Pricing and Plans

Shape offers a transparent pricing structure with a 30-day money-back guarantee on all plans.

• Starter Plan: $49 per month. Includes the AI data analyst, ad-hoc queries, 2 users (additional users at $24.95/pm), Slackbot, and dedicated Slack support.
• Team Plan: $499 per month. Includes all features of the Starter plan but for up to 20 users (additional users at $24.95/pm).
• Enterprise Plan: Custom pricing. Offers unlimited users, a Microsoft Teams bot, white-glove onboarding, and all other features for large-scale deployments.