you can now just ask smolanalytics a question, right on the homepage

written july 2026 and kept as a record. the box this post is about is no longer on the homepage: the product is an end-to-end test runner first now, and the homepage is about that. the ask itself still ships, in your editor over mcp and at POST /v1/ask on your instance, and the rule the post is really about, that the ai returns a computed number or nothing, is still enforced by the same CI test. don't go to the homepage looking for the box.

you could, in july 2026, ask smolanalytics a question right on the homepage and get a real answer, no signup, no login. you typed "where do people drop off?" and a real number computed in front of you, on live data. that was the whole idea made literal: understanding your product used to need a data analyst, some sql, and a heavy tool like mixpanel or amplitude; instead you just ask, in plain english, and your own ai answers with a number that is computed from your events, never made up. the answer is guaranteed by a CI test that fails the build if the ai's number ever differs from the computed report's.

the thing i shipped

the homepage used to have a little animated mockup of "asking your analytics a question." a mockup. fake numbers.

that always bugged me, because i was faking it on the one page everyone sees first. so i wired it up for real. the box talked to a live demo instance. you typed a question, or tapped one of the suggestions, and it came back with an actual computed answer off real event data. no account, no "book a demo", no email wall.

why this is the whole point

i keep coming back to what stitch and claude design did. design used to need a designer, someone who knew the tools. now anyone describes what they want in plain words and gets a real, professional result. they took an expert craft and made it something you can just ask for, without losing any of the power.

analytics is the same shape of problem. understanding your product used to mean a data person, an event taxonomy, sql, and a tool that charges you more the bigger you get. most people never get the answer, they just get a dashboard and a bad feeling.

so this is that "just ask for it" idea, pointed at your numbers. drop one snippet, then ask. from your own editor (cursor, claude code) over mcp, or straight at POST /v1/ask on your instance. as capable as the big tools, and something a solo builder can actually use in five seconds.

but the number is never made up

here is the part i will not shut up about, because it is the trust the whole thing rests on: the ai never invents a number.

most ai analytics tools bolt a model on top that writes a query against your data. a generated query is a second path, and it can disagree with the computed report, so the model confidently hands you a wrong number. this does the opposite. the ai does not write sql. it calls the exact same deterministic reports the HTTP API serves, so it returns the real computed figure or nothing. and that is not a line in a readme: there is a CI test that asks the same question through the HTTP API and through the ai, and fails the build if the two answers differ.

so when the ask gives you an answer, it is not a language model guessing. it is a real computation, and it is provably the same number the report endpoint returns. that part did not move when the homepage did.

where the ask lives now

in your editor. npx smolanalytics connect wires the mcp server into cursor, claude code, vscode, windsurf, cline or claude desktop, and you ask there, in the place you were already working. the same thing is one http call away at POST /v1/ask on your own instance.

it is one snippet to get your own events in, and then you ask about your data the same way. your project gets its own isolated instance, with no kafka or clickhouse beside it, a 14-day trial at Pro limits and no card, then $19/mo. your data exports in one file any time.

analytics you can just ask. the box moved off the homepage; the guarantee behind it did not.