Athenic
Why you can't do data analysis with Claude
Details
- External ID
- 48480928
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Athenic
- Website domain
- athenic.com
- Launched
- June 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12568306010928962
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hey HN, I'm Jared. I’ve been building data tools since 2020. Polyture, then AskEdith, now Athenic: ask a question in natural language, get a chart/dashboard, then automate it. Connects to Postgres, Salesforce, Google Ads, whatever.To everyone that says "just link Claude to your db”: imagine the chaos of conflicting definitions and analysis that would show up in a business setting.Ask “what’s our revenue?” twice, two days apart or to a different model. There’s no guarantee that you’ll get the same results. Now imagine giving that to all of the non-technical users at your company.It's not a model problem. We learned this the hard way. When we launched AskEdith here in 2022, and you told us (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33435361): “you'll still have to check the SQL,” “trust is everything,” “answers won’t be consistent”. You were right.Now, Athenic defines KPIs and formulas deterministically in a Semantic Model. The Semantic Model is made up of modular, composable units that can make up complex analysis, while guaranteeing determinism and accuracy. The LLM’s only responsibility is interpreting your question (which even non-technical users can double check).`revenue = sum(order_total − refunds) where status = 'completed'`Ask for revenue and everyone gets the same number, every time.Three years of learnings from working with top startups and Fortune 500 companies later, we just shipped 2.0. Chat-to-insight, plus dashboards and automations that run on a schedule and land in your email. Tell us we're wrong.
Enrichment
- Theme
- database infrastructure and developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- data analysis tool for claude
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Building an AI data analyst that reliably translates natural language to complex multi-table SQL across diverse schema types without hallucinations requires deep data engineering, semantic layer modeling, and robust evaluation infrastructure.
What it would actually take: A production version requires connector infrastructure (JDBC/ODBC pooling for Postgres, Snowflake, BigQuery, third-party APIs), a semantic metadata engine that generates and verifies join paths, an agentic loop with self-correcting SQL execution against sandboxed read replicas, and deterministic charting synthesis. The hard part is high precision on ambiguity and avoiding harmful or hallucinatory queries across large enterprise schemas.
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