Blog
Engineering deep-dives, product launches, and the thinking behind TextQL.

Ask questions about your data directly in the Claude Code prompt. Ana queries your connected sources and responds inline, with your ontology and past threads as context.
Ivy Cho, Benjamin Shi · Jun 5, 2026

Embed Ana inside your product. Your customers ask questions in plain English and get answers grounded in their data, without leaving your app.
Ivy Cho, Benjamin Shi · Jun 4, 2026

Connect Ana to your Dremio environment and ask questions in plain English against your lakehouse data. No pipeline changes required.
Ben Mains, Benjamin Shi · Jun 3, 2026

Ana Makes Your Charts Come to Life
Ana now generates interactive charts using ECharts. Hover, zoom, filter, and explore directly in your browser.
Benjamin Shi
Strategy & Growth,
Corey Sarsfield
Member of Technical StaffJune 2, 2026
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[ Announcements ]
TextQL Now Supports OAuth and SSO
TextQL now supports OAuth 2.0 and SAML-based SSO, so your team can sign in through your existing identity provider.
Benjamin Shi
Semi-Technical Blog Writer,
Sergi Domingo
Member of Technical Staff,
Joseph Ma
Member of Technical StaffJune 1, 2026
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Claude Opus 4.8 is Now Available in Ana
Claude Opus 4.8, Anthropic's latest flagship model, is now available in Ana.
Rodney Shen
Member of Technical Staff,
Benjamin Shi
Testing the ModelsMay 29, 2026
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[ Announcements ]
Observability is Live in Ana
A built-in admin view that tracks how Ana is being used across your organization: active users, ACU consumption, connector activity, and more, without requiring you to build anything.
Emma Xing
Member of Technical Staff,
Benjamin Shi
Emma's Ghost WriterMay 28, 2026
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[ Announcements ]
Ana Now Supports Firebolt
Connect Ana to your Firebolt workspace and ask questions in plain English against the same warehouse, on the same data, right now. No ETL, no pipeline changes.
Gabriel Tomitsuka
Chief Architect,
Alex Baumstark
Member of Technical Staff,
Benjamin Shi
Member of Somewhat Technical StaffMay 27, 2026
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[ Announcements ]
Ana Is Now Available As An MCP Server
Bring TextQL Ana to Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, Copilot, and any MCP-compatible AI surface. Take your analytics engine anywhere.
Benjamin Shi
Founding Member of Semi-Technical StaffMay 26, 2026
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[ Announcements ]
Semantic Layers Are a Patch. Ontologies Are the Fix.
Every approach to AI on structured data optimizes for accuracy. None of them scale. Our Ontology does, and it gets faster and cheaper the more you use it.
Benjamin Shi
Semi-Technical Blog WriterMay 26, 2026
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[ Research ]
Audit Logs and Metrics via OpenTelemetry
Stream TextQL audit logs and product metrics into your observability stack. Native OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and S3 targets, with Datadog, Splunk, Grafana Loki, and Honeycomb support.
Benjamin Shi
Strategy & GrowthMay 21, 2026
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[ Announcements ]
Launching Ontology 3.0
Ontology 3.0 makes Ana faster, more token-efficient, and more accurate than before, with a git-backed knowledge graph that lets Ana scale context across organizations of any size.
Mark Hay
CTO,
Gabriel Tomitsuka
Chief Architect,
Ben Van Sleen
Member of Technical Staff,
Alex Baumstark
Member of Technical Staff,
Joseph Ma
Member of Technical Staff,
Benjamin Shi
Growth & StrategyMay 21, 2026
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[ Announcements ]
Ana Now Connects to SAP HANA and HANA Cloud
Connect Ana to your SAP HANA or SAP HANA Cloud instance and ask questions about your data in plain English. No SQL, no data engineering request, no waiting.
Benjamin Shi
Strategy & Growth,
Matthew Lyman
SVP of Sales,
Ben Van Sleen
Member of Technical StaffMay 20, 2026
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Ana is now on Microsoft Teams
Ana now lives inside Microsoft Teams. @mention Ana in any channel, get scheduled playbook reports, and let each team teach Ana its own context — full feature parity with the Slack integration.
Benjamin Shi
Strategy & GrowthMay 19, 2026
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[ Announcements ]
Notifications Hub
The Notification Hub gathers mentions, shares, access requests, and admin announcements into one place in your left sidebar, so nothing important slips past you.
Benjamin Shi
Strategy & Growth,
Rodney Shen
Member of Technical StaffMay 18, 2026
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Dashboards 2.0
We doubled down on dashboard infrastructure. 2.0 ships parallel data loading, full Plotly Dash support, parameterized queries, dedicated sandcastles, incremental edits, draft/publish state, and built-in usage analytics.
Ivy Teng
Forward Deployed EngineerMay 7, 2026
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[ Announcements ]
TextQL Raises $17M, Anchored by Blackstone Innovations Investments, to Help Bring Intelligence to Enterprise Data
TextQL closes $17M in strategic investment anchored by Blackstone Innovations Investments to scale AI-native analytics infrastructure for the enterprise.
Ethan Ding
CEOApril 17, 2026
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[ Announcements ]
Introducing API Connectors
Your warehouse has your historical data. Your SaaS tools have everything else. Now Ana can reach both in the same conversation, securely, with no tokens exposed.
Moritz Ankenbauer
Member of Technical Staff,
Gabriel Tomitsuka
Chief Software ArchitectMarch 24, 2026
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[ Engineering ]
From Conversation to Application: Introducing Persistent Dashboards
Your entire team can now use live, interactive dashboards that refresh on schedule — all built through conversation with Ana.
Arman Raayatsanati
Machine Learning Scientist,
Matt Abate
Head of AI ResearchFebruary 12, 2026
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[ Announcements ]
Ana Just Got 25% Cheaper
We cut Sandcastle lifecycles from 4 hours to 1 hour — most customers see costs drop by 25%, API users by 50%.
TextQL Team
TeamJanuary 15, 2026
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[ Announcements ]
Introducing Sandcastles - the Sandbox for Analytical Workloads
Purpose-built sandbox infrastructure for AI data agents: isolated containers, Apache Arrow streaming, and unified access across enterprise data sources.
Mark Hay
CTO,
Gabriel Tomitsuka
Chief Architect,
Joseph Ma
Head of Product,
Rodney Shen
Member of Technical Staff,
Brian Bickell
Head of PartnershipsDecember 17, 2025
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[ Engineering ]
Why I'm Joining TextQL
After years in partnerships, Brian Bickell saw Ana answer real questions over real data in minutes. That convinced him to join TextQL as Head of Partnerships.
Brian Bickell
Head of PartnershipsOctober 29, 2025
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[ Team ]
TextQL Launches into Healthcare Vertical
TextQL launches purpose-built data agents for healthcare — analytics and reconciliation across EHRs, claims, and pharmacy systems.
Ethan Ding
CEOOctober 9, 2025
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[ Announcements ]
Ivy Teng: From McKinsey to TextQL
Here's how failing four visa lotteries led me from McKinsey to TextQL, and why I've never been more excited about the future of data.
Ivy Teng
Member of Operational StaffSeptember 19, 2025
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[ Team ]
Ana in Slack
Hey, can you pull last quarter's conversion rates by channel? Just need it for a 2pm meeting. Should take five minutes.
Ivy Teng
Member of Operational StaffSeptember 16, 2025
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[ Announcements ]
Playbooks Launch: Ana Now Runs Autonomously
Playbooks let Ana run your most important analyses on a schedule -- overnight reports, weekly health checks, and recurring insights delivered without lifting a finger.
Ivy Teng
Member of Operational StaffSeptember 2, 2025
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[ Announcements ]
Ana Launch
TextQL launches Ana, an agentic data scientist that replaces the three-week data request cycle with 90-second answers.
Ivy Teng
Member of Operational StaffAugust 26, 2025
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[ Announcements ]
Making AI That Can Process 1,000,000x More Data
Your AI can analyze 1GB of data. Your enterprise has 1,000,000 times that. Here is how we closed the gap.
Ethan Ding
CEOAugust 6, 2025
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[ Announcements ]
Guide to Analytics Agent Levels for CIOs
Like autonomous cars, analytics AI has 5 distinct levels. Most companies are stuck at Level 2 text-to-SQL while Level 5 systems reshape entire industries.
Ethan Ding
CEOJun 16, 2025
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[ Research ]
Beyond Guesswork
We benchmark GPT-4, Claude 3.7, and Qwen3 on 158 Fermi estimation problems, testing three prompting strategies to find which model reasons best under uncertainty.
Matt Abate
Head of AI ResearchMay 22, 2025
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[ Research ]
Benchmarking AI Vision with Puzzles
We test five multimodal AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic on visual puzzle-solving -- algebra, geometry, chess, and pattern recognition from a new public dataset.
Matt Abate
Head of AI ResearchMay 13, 2025
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[ Research ]
Open-Sourcing State of the Art Text-to-SQL
TextQL open-sources Ana Small, a barebones text-to-SQL tool that outperforms every major competitor on complex benchmarks -- and it is free to use.
Spencer Hubert
Head of EngineeringMarch 10, 2025
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[ Announcements ]
Top 10 AI Analytics Tools for Data Insights in 2025
Review and compare 10 leading AI analytics tools for data insights, including TextQL, Power BI, Tableau, and more, with features and use cases.
TextQL Team
Content TeamNov 14, 2024
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[ Research ]
AI Data Insights Providers for Enterprise Data Visualization
Explore how leading AI Data Insights firms accelerate enterprise decisions with interactive AI data visualization tools built for Snowflake integration.
TextQL Team
Content TeamNov 14, 2024
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[ Research ]
AI Data Insights vs Traditional BI: Analyst Toolsets Compared
Compare AI Data Insights and traditional BI tools for analysts, including automation, dashboards, NLP accessibility, scalability, and enterprise support.
TextQL Team
Content TeamNov 14, 2024
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[ Research ]
Our Ontology-Based Text to SQL Generation Process
A detailed walkthrough of how TextQL transforms natural language into SQL using ontologies
Ethan Ding
CEOOctober 18, 2024
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[ Engineering ]
Why We Use an Ontology for Text to SQL
Why we abandoned LLM-generated SQL after 12 months and built an ontology architecture that gives AI models structured tracks to follow.
Ethan Ding
CEOOctober 17, 2024
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[ Engineering ]
Embedding Models and When to Use Them
A deep dive into the underrated capabilities of embedding models and their role in AI reasoning
Ethan Ding
CEOOctober 16, 2024
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[ Engineering ]
Supabase & TextQL: Instant Insights from Your Startup's Data
Introducing our friction-free connector that lets Ana perform AI-powered analytics on your Supabase tables
Matt Abate
Head of AI ResearchJuly 31, 2024
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[ Announcements ]
Tableau & TextQL: Augmenting Your Dashboards with Generative AI
Introducing a seamless integration between Tableau and Ana, bringing natural language insights to your visualizations
Ethan Ding
CEOMay 31, 2024
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[ Announcements ]
Haskell in Production: TextQL's Ontology Service
How we use Haskell to build a reliable and maintainable ontology service for enterprise data
Mark Hay
CTOFebruary 7, 2024
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[ Engineering ]
Announcing TextQL's SOC II Report
TextQL achieves SOC 2 Type I compliance, demonstrating our commitment to security and data protection
Gabriel Tomitsuka
Chief ArchitectJanuary 29, 2024
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[ Announcements ]
TextQL Joins NBA Launchpad to Revolutionize Fan Data Analytics
Partnering with the NBA to transform how the league understands and engages with fans through AI-powered analytics
Gabriel Tomitsuka
Head of GrowthJanuary 25, 2024
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[ Announcements ]
Announcing our $4.1M fundraise from DCM & Neo to make data driven operations instantaneous
TextQL raises seed funding to transform how enterprises interact with their data
Ethan Ding
CEOJanuary 24, 2024
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[ Announcements ]
Building the Most Advanced Data Agent
How we built Ana to join 250+ tables and handle enterprise-scale data analysis with the Dakota Architecture.
Ethan Ding
CEOOctober 15, 2023
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[ Engineering ]
What If The Model Isn't Good Enough?
A deep dive into improving AI SQL generation through iterative context enhancement
Ethan Ding
CEOSeptember 30, 2023
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[ Engineering ]
TextQL's Ten Year Thesis
How AI agents, natural language interfaces, and automated ontologies will reshape enterprise analytics over the next decade.
Ethan Ding
CEOSeptember 28, 2023
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[ Announcements ]