Drowning in dashboards.
Still can't answer basic questions.

Name: Strata
Author: Strata

Get the data your analysts need—into Excel, into Sheets, into their hands—in seconds, not days. Battle-tested semantic layer technology that finally delivers on the promise of self-service BI.

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The Dashboard Paradox

More BI tools than ever. Less ability to answer questions.

The 3-Day Question

"Why did conversion drop last week?" A simple question. Three days for an answer. Because every new question requires building a new dashboard or opening a data team ticket to get the right data exported. Your VP doesn't have three days.

Curated Views, Crippled Insights

Your dashboards show what happened. But when you need to understand why—when you need to drill down, slice differently, or connect dots across domains—you hit a wall. Traditional BI wasn't built for exploration. It was built for presentation.

The Export Bottleneck

Your best analysts do their real work in Excel and Sheets. But getting the right data there requires opening tickets, waiting on data teams, or wrestling with dashboard export limits. You need data in their tools, not trapped in yours.

Deep Data Access

Questions that took 3 days now take 3 minutes. Export to Excel or Sheets in one click. No SQL. No tickets. No limits.

Strata gives non-technical domain experts complete access to your data warehouse through a governed semantic layer. They explore freely, connect metrics across domains automatically, and get exactly the data they need—whether that's in-app analysis or instant export to Excel, Google Sheets, or any tool they prefer.

This is what self-service was supposed to be. Not forcing analysts into dashboards. Not limiting them to pre-built views. Complete, safe, governed exploration of your entire data warehouse—with the data flowing seamlessly into the tools where they actually work.

How It Works

Advanced semantic layer technology that makes deep exploration possible

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Automatic Data Blending

"Show me revenue by product AND customer acquisition cost by channel." One query. Zero joins. The semantic layer understands your data relationships so your analysts don't have to. No manual joins. No data team tickets. Just answers.

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Advanced Metric Types

Point-in-time snapshots. Multi-step funnels. Cohort retention. Complex business logic that would take hours in SQL takes seconds to define. Your analysts focus on insights, not syntax.

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Stacked Compute Engines

High-performance query execution optimized for exploration. Get answers fast, even on massive datasets.

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Instant Export to Excel & Sheets

Build your query, see results instantly, export to Excel or Google Sheets in one click. Analysts work where they're most productive—and Strata gets them the right data, fast. No export limits. No formatting issues. Just clean data, ready to work.

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AI-Powered YAML Modeling

Fast semantic modeling with AI assistance and simple YAML configuration files. Data engineers work in their preferred dev setup with git integration—no proprietary tools, just natural workflow.

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Semantic API for LLMs

Let your LLMs safely navigate your data warehouse through a governed semantic API. Add determinism to your AI data applications—no hallucinations, no unsafe queries, just reliable results.

BATTLE-TESTED AT SCALE

Born at Netflix. Built by One of the Few Who Actually Know How.

Most "semantic layer" vendors are SQL wrapper companies calling themselves innovators. True semantic layer technology—the kind that scales to hundreds of users exploring billions of rows without breaking—is rare. There are maybe a dozen people on Earth who've actually built and shipped it at scale.

Strata's founder is one of them. The precursor was built at Netflix, competing directly against Looker, Tableau, and half a dozen internal tools. It won. Hundreds of users chose it. Not because it was mandated. Because it worked better.

This isn't a prototype. This isn't a theory. This is battle-tested technology refined through years of production use at one of the most data-sophisticated companies on Earth. The kind of pedigree you can't fake. The kind of expertise you can't hire.

100s

of users on precursor

Years

refined in production

Won

against major vendors

"You've taken the challenge with using tools like Tableau and data in general and smashed it down to its bare minimum."

— Product Manager

"We finally have access to all of the data. First time in 10 years of working here that this is possible."

— CS Analyst

"Just wanted to reach out and let you know what I brought Mando into Ads and it's a game changer! I think you were ahead of the curve on BI tooling @ Netflix and just wanted to let you know you left a big impact that's paying dividends after you've left."

— Manager, Data

Unbundled BI

While others bloat their platforms with features nobody uses, we built the one thing that actually matters.

Strata does one thing obsessively well: deep, unrestricted data exploration for non-technical users. No dashboard builder. No pixel-perfect visualizations. No alerts. No collaboration features. Just pure, unfiltered access to your data warehouse—the capability every other BI tool promises but fails to deliver.

This isn't a limitation. It's strategic focus. When your analyst needs to understand why revenue dropped in the midwest region for customers acquired through paid search in Q2—they need data access, not another visualization option. That's what Strata delivers. That's what everything else doesn't.

Get in Touch

Curious about bringing deep data access to your organization? Let's talk about how Strata can enable your domain experts.

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Drowning in dashboards. Still can't answer basic questions.