Four steps

Connect, agree meaning, ask, keep

There is no modelling project and no BI rollout. The work is mostly agreeing what your terms mean, once.

1. Connect your data

Point FactSmith at your warehouse. It reports on dimensional models, and says so plainly if a schema is not one. The first questions are proposed and checked, not left as a blank page.

2. Agree what things mean

Define revenue, customer and on time once, so every answer uses the same definition.

3. Ask

Ask in your own words, by voice or by typing. The two are the same box.

4. Keep what matters

Keep the answers worth keeping. Have an administrator vouch for the ones that must be right.

Connecting a warehouse is guided

The first session is not a blank page.

FactSmith looks at which parts of your warehouse have never been asked about, proposes questions in ordinary business language, and checks each one actually runs and comes back with rows. An administrator then accepts or rejects them one at a time, with the query shown. Only the accepted ones count when we score whether the product is getting the numbers right.

Ask it how you would say it

A question in plain language is enough. FactSmith returns one or more tiles you can read, keep, and ask about again. A question that asks for more than one view lands more than one tile; a confirmed question you have asked before stays one.

The Ask tab, with a question box and answers already on the page

When the question is ambiguous, it asks back

It does not invent a framing.

If the date or the measure is underspecified, FactSmith asks which one you meant before it runs. The minute-in-the-product clip on What is FactSmith shows that. A wrong date is cheaper to catch as a question than as a wrong answer.

Four minutes of the product

Sign in as a scoped role, type a question, edit it before it runs, and keep the tile. Wide World Importers. No features that are not on screen.

Southeast sales manager: you only see what you may see.
Type a plain-language question. A tile lands.
The box is the interface. Edit before it runs.
Ask tiles are ephemeral. Save puts one on the dashboard.

When the date is ambiguous

Ask by year and it does not guess. It asks which date this warehouse means.

Which date should the period use -- delivery, invoice, order.

On a phone

Tiles stack. Charts pick one of three layouts: a list, a two-column grid, or a scrolling strip.

Ask on a phone is consume-only: you ask and you see the answer. Saving, editing and changing the chart type stay on a larger screen.

List -- one row per chart
List -- one row per chart
Grid -- two columns, tap to expand
Grid -- two columns, tap to expand
Strip -- scroll sideways, tap to expand
Strip -- scroll sideways, tap to expand
Ask on a phone -- mic above the question box
Ask on a phone -- mic above the question box
List, grid and strip on a phone. Ask stays consume-only.

Where data becomes fact

Raw data becomes business meaning, becomes a fact, becomes a decision

Walk through it on your data

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