explai (formerly, Data-Stories.ai) creates the world’s most business-emphatic digital data analyst. We believe there are millions of untold data stories buried in drives and databases that will change the course of businesses once given a voice."
Good stories are the opposite of the canned, preconfigured data aggregates offered by business intelligence tools today. Stories are specific, engaging, and connect the dots in a complex world: They will tell you how different your customers are. Why one market outperforms another. What today’s facts mean for tomorrow’s success.
Humans told stories before there was a campfire to gather around to listen. Stories move us — literally. They inspire us to cross oceans and explore space. They start new products and companies.
But history is the story of the winners. What data in your company is overlooked? How would it change your strategy if you knew? How would it inform your communication and decisions?
Team discussions and board meetings would take a different course — more relevant, interesting and actionable — if they’d go beyond the same high-level standard metrics, to what data matters most on that given week.
It would level the playing field for teams that lack proximity to a data team. Or for a company that does not even have one yet.
What turns would your story take, if your data helped you write it?