--- title: "Analytics โ€” Stop building dashboards. Start asking questions." description: "Certant Analytics finds your data, builds the chart, and explains what changed. In plain English. With sources you can click." url: "https://certant.ai/analytics" --- # Stop building dashboards. Start asking questions. Ask a question in plain English. Certant finds the data, builds the chart, and shows the source behind every number. [Start free](https://certant.ai/register) [Book a demo](https://certant.ai/contact-sales) See a dashboard it built Every figure opens the row or the paragraph it came from. AskExample Example: a question asked in plain English, answered from a table and a document. What it does ## What Certant can do ### Just ask Type a question and get a chart. Refine it by asking again. ### We do the data model Connect your data once. Certant works out how the tables relate and which names mean the same thing. ### You can verify it Every figure comes with the row, paragraph or document behind it. A dashboard ## A dashboard from one question Ask "how are warranty claims trending?" and Certant assembles the panels, the joins and the baselines. DashboardExample ![A Certant Analytics dashboard](https://certant.ai/public/assets/screens/analytics-dashboard-shot.png) Each number matches a row below; hover or tab a pin for the detail. Narrative panel Generated prose that reads from the same query layer as the charts. KPI tiles Single-value tiles with a comparison window. Time series with forecast History, a projection and a confidence band on one line chart. Multi-series line One line per cohort on shared axes. Ranked bars Rows ranked by a measure. Column chart Value labels, a sort control and a dimension picker. Minimap A thumbnail of every panel on a long dashboard. Global filters Apply a dimension once and every chart reflows. Who it's for ## Built for people without an analyst Most of our customers don't have an analyst. Every answer cited Click a figure and the row or paragraph opens. Row-level citations Inherits your permissions Nobody sees a number they could not already see. RBAC inherited Runs where you need it Certant Cloud, your cloud, or fully air-gapped. Certant Cloud Your VPC Air-gapped **Ask Certant to build it.** Describe the dashboard you want and the AI FDE builds it, then waits for your approval. [See the AI FDE](https://certant.ai/ai-fde) The detail ## Read the detail Open a heading to read that part. The longer version ## What it does, in full ### What it replaces **You have to know what chart to build.** You have to pick the chart type before you know what the data looks like, and most people stop there. **You just ask.** Type a question, get a chart, then refine it by asking again. It reads your documents and your data together, not only a warehouse. **You have to know which table the numbers live in.** Or wait three days for someone in the data team to point you. **It finds the tables for you.** Connect your data once and Certant works out how the tables relate and which names mean the same thing. Nothing to map by hand and keep up to date. **You have to trust that the answer is right.** And there's no easy way to check. **You can check it.** Every figure comes with the row, paragraph or document behind it. Click it and see the original. ### A dashboard from one question Every panel here was chosen by Certant, not placed by hand. **Narrative panel.** Generated prose that reads from the same query layer as the charts, so it never goes stale next to the numbers. **KPI tiles.** Single-value tiles with a comparison window, unit formatting and a stamp showing when the value last refreshed. **Time series with forecast.** History, a projection and a confidence band on one line chart. Horizon, model and band width are panel settings. **Multi-series line.** One line per cohort on shared axes. Click a legend entry to isolate it, double-click to drill into the rows behind it. **Ranked bars.** Rows ranked by a measure, with bars re-coloured against thresholds you write inline. **Column chart.** Value labels, a sort control and a dimension picker that swaps the axis without rewriting the query. **Minimap.** A thumbnail of every panel on a long dashboard. Click to jump, drag the viewport to scroll. **Global filters.** Apply a dimension once and every chart reflows. Filters resolve through the same joins the panels were built on. ### Built for people without an analyst Most of our customers don't have an analyst. They have a head of ops, a board paper due Friday and a pile of spreadsheets nobody owns. Where there is an analyst, they stop being the bottleneck. ### Ask Certant to build it The AI FDE sits in a drawer on every screen. Describe the dashboard you want in plain English and it builds it, then waits for your approval before anything goes live. What it can draw ## Every chart type, one picker Six widget types and seventeen chart types, all of them listed below. Describe the data in plain English and Certant picks one, or pin the type yourself. Widget types ### Six widget types #### Chart Plot data from a saved DB connection. #### KPI Single number from a SQL query. #### Table Paged query results. #### Text Markdown notes / headers. #### Image Static image by URL. #### Divider Visual separator. Chart types ### Seventeen chart types #### Line Trend over time. #### Multi-line Compare several series. #### Area Cumulative magnitude. #### Bar Compare a few categories. #### Stacked bar Category totals broken down. #### Top-N bar Ranked categories. #### Pie Share of a whole. #### Donut Share with centred value. #### Scatter Relationship of two numerics. #### Bubble Three numeric dimensions. #### Histogram Distribution of one numeric. #### Box plot Distribution across categories. #### Treemap Hierarchy / proportion. #### Correlation matrix Numeric-column correlations. #### Forecast ribbon History + prediction band. #### Geographic โ€” points Lat/long markers. #### Geographic โ€” heatmap Density by location. Compared ## The old way and Certant | | The old way | With Certant | |---|---|---| | Building a dashboard | Half a day, a Slack thread, and a BI ticket | A sentence | | Explaining a number | "The data team will get back to you" | A paragraph, with the source | | Adding a new question | A new chart, a new request | Just ask | ## Bring a question and your data Point it at your data and ask the thing you would have asked an analyst. [Book a demo on your data](https://certant.ai/contact-sales) [Start free](https://certant.ai/register) AnswerExample Revenue fell 36% last quarter, mostly a drop in the ProSeries line after the July supplier outage. orders.parquet ยท Q3 vs Q2 incident-2025-07-14.md