Notes

Not a blog. The pages for the questions people actually type.

I keep getting asked the same things. What is this compared to Tableau. Can I send a board to a customer without buying them a license. Is the lake a backup. Where do I look, and where do I ask. These pages are those answers, written the way I would say them on a call.

Short version, if you do not want to click around. You plug in the apps you already run. Coeleste keeps a copy, with history. You define what a number means. You hang tiles on a dashboard. That board is the truth you take into the room. Your AI -- ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, whatever you already talk to -- is where you pick the number apart, prove it, or hang a new one. Viewers do not take a seat. Pricing is not public yet. The pile this replaces already costs hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Coeleste will not.

• The next generation of BI does not invent the number

  What AI BI should mean, and why most of it lets the model make up the KPI.

• The dashboard is where you look. The AI is where you ask

  Where you see the number, where you pick it apart, and why those are two different jobs.

• Your AI of choice, against a warehouse it did not invent

  How Model Context Protocol actually drives the board, instead of a chat box taped to a chart.

• Your apps, kept. History included

  The lake as a backup of the systems you run the company on, with history, and the questions that only exist because both are there.

• Those tools wait for a warehouse. Coeleste starts from your apps

  The stack companies already pay six figures for, and what changes when you start from the apps instead of the model.

• A board for you. A board for the customer. Viewers do not take a seat

  Service-desk reporting without buying your customer a license, and questions no PSA screen can answer.

• FreshBooks in the lake, not another export

  Collected, outstanding, aging, and the conversation behind the number.

• HubSpot is better when it is not the only system in the room

  CRM tiles that can see invoices, meetings, and work alongside the contact record.

• ConnectWise Manage as rows you can still ask about next year

  PSA reporting with history, and a client-facing board that does not need a Manage login.

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