[HN Gopher] Show HN: nbi.ai - Generative Business Intelligence
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       Show HN: nbi.ai - Generative Business Intelligence
        
       Author : fromthegut
       Score  : 35 points
       Date   : 2023-11-17 21:18 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | fromthegut wrote:
       | Hi HN, Yury and Michael are here to answer your questions.
       | 
       | 2 years ago, we launched Narrative BI to make data analytics
       | available for everyone. Since then we helped 2,500+ teams get
       | insights from their marketing data.
       | 
       | Our backstory is here:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33627953
       | 
       | We started as a freemium product and built a unique business data
       | set. We used this dataset to launch NBI.AI - a Generative BI
       | platform that can be connected to virtually any structured data
       | source (unlike our previous version designed for specific data
       | connectors).
        
       | SubiculumCode wrote:
       | Can you unpack: "Drive growth with AI-generated data narratives."
       | Superficially, that sentence reads as fluff corporatespeak
        
         | codetrotter wrote:
         | My interpretation: Use AI to understand the data, so that you
         | can get more customers / serve your existing customers better.
         | 
         | Disclaimer: I've never tried their product
        
           | fromthegut wrote:
           | Your interpretation is accurate! The self service connectors
           | we build are mostly marketing/ sales data sources, so the
           | narratives we generate are focused on growth insights and
           | recommendations.
           | 
           | Feel free to try: would love to hear your feedback!
        
             | codetrotter wrote:
             | > Feel free to try
             | 
             | I will, but not yet. I am building a product, slowly. But
             | my only user so far is myself :p
        
               | fromthegut wrote:
               | Good luck then!
        
         | fromthegut wrote:
         | Thanks for the feedback!
         | 
         | Historically, we've been focused on growth use cases
         | (marketing, sales, PLG). "Data narratives" is how we call our
         | natural language written insights (AI generated). So it might
         | sound like a corporate jargon but actually describes our value
         | proposition. Will think how to make it more clear. Thanks!
        
       | blotato wrote:
       | Can you share some examples of what people are using this for
       | today?
        
         | fromthegut wrote:
         | You can learn more about our solutions here
         | https://www.narrative.bi/solutions
         | 
         | But let me describe the most popular use cases:
         | 
         | 1. Report automation. People connect their marketing data
         | sources and get automated reports on key metrics 2. Anomaly
         | detection. We generate alerts when we see unusual patterns that
         | affect your key business metrics 3. Natural language insights:
         | we uncover interesting patterns and correlations in your data
         | and provide recommendations on how you can improve/optimize
         | your campaigns
        
       | vood wrote:
       | Hey folks, I'm a free customer here and a big-big fan of their
       | project. I've been using narrative.bi for my project and sharing
       | the results on Twitter [1] lately.
       | 
       | How I'm using narrative.bi: - A high-level report of WoW, and MoM
       | changes on our website traffic that land in my email. -
       | Alternative to GA4 UI, which drives me nuts.
       | 
       | What I don't get yet and I want to see implemented (I'll
       | definitely pay for this): - Dimensional analysis: Which
       | dimensions contribute to the topline change the most. I.e. Say
       | unique users increased by 30% WoW, what top 5 dimensions have
       | contributed to this change? Country? Device? Etc - Global event
       | correlation: are there any global events that influence the
       | metrics change? Maybe a holiday in the Country?
       | 
       | [1] https://twitter.com/avysotsky/status/1723403222906286185
        
         | fromthegut wrote:
         | Hey @vood, thanks for the feedback!
         | 
         | We actually improved our drill-downs recently. Check it out:
         | https://www.narrative.bi/product-updates/purchase-insights-g...
         | 
         | It's totally OK to use Narrative BI in a no-UI way via email or
         | slack, but our web UI provides more advanced insights so you
         | may want to check it from time to time. Simply click on an
         | insight in your email and you'll be redirected to a more
         | detailed view.
        
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