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

you can now ask smolanalytics a question right on the homepage and get a real answer, no signup, no login. type "where do people drop off?" and a real number computes in front of you, on live data. that is the whole idea of the product made literal: analytics used to need a data analyst, some sql, and a heavy tool like mixpanel or amplitude; now you just ask, in plain english, and your own ai answers with a number that is computed from your events, never made up. it is open source, a single go binary you can self-host free, or hosted from $9/mo, and the answer is guaranteed by a CI test that fails the build if the ai's number ever differs from the dashboard'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 the ask is the entire point of smolanalytics, and i was faking it on the one page everyone sees first. so i wired it up for real. the box on smolanalytics.com now talks to a live demo instance. you type a question, or tap one of the suggestions, and it comes back with an actual computed answer off real event data. no account, no "book a demo", no email wall. just ask it.

try it: smolanalytics.com. ask "where do people drop off?" or "which channel converts best?" and watch a real answer land.

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 smolanalytics is that "just ask for it" idea, pointed at your numbers. drop one snippet, then ask. from the homepage box, from the dashboard, or from your own editor (cursor, claude code) over mcp. 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 your dashboard, so the model confidently hands you a wrong number. smolanalytics does the opposite. the ai does not write sql. it calls the exact same deterministic reports the dashboard renders, 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 dashboard and through the ai, and fails the build if the two answers differ.

so when the homepage box gives you an answer, it is not a language model guessing. it is a real computation, and it is provably the same number the dashboard would show.

try it, then keep it

go ask it something: smolanalytics.com. it is on live demo data, so you are seeing real computed answers, just not your own yet.

when you want it on your own product, it is one snippet, and then you ask about your data the same way. it is open source (MIT), a single go binary with no kafka or clickhouse beside it, self-host free forever, or hosted from $9/mo if you would rather not run a server. code is on github.

analytics you can just ask. that is the product, and now the homepage finally tells the truth about it.