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insightsoftware
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Suite of financial reporting, BI, budgeting and EPM tools that connect to 140+ ERPs for finance teams' close, planning and disclosure.

271K visits/mo
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Explo
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Embedded analytics platform for building customer-facing dashboards, AI self-service reports and data sharing inside your own product.

58K visits/mo
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Excelmatic
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AI spreadsheet assistant that analyzes Excel, CSV and PDF data in plain language and builds charts, dashboards and reports.

63K visits/mo
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Basedash
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AI-native business intelligence on a governed semantic layer, generating trusted charts, dashboards and answers.

47K visits/mo1.4K saves
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Free: $0 (10 chats/mo)
Essential: $9.9/mo (150 chats/mo)
Professional: $29.9/mo (unlimited chats)
Premium: $59.9/mo
Startup: $1,000/mo (up to 25 users, plus AI usage)

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Core features
  • Excel and web ERP reporting (Spreadsheet Server, Wands, Jet)
  • Financial planning and budgeting
  • Account reconciliation and financial close
  • Tax, transfer pricing and disclosure management
  • Embedded analytics for ISVs (Logi)
  • Connectors for 140+ ERPs
  • Embeddable customer-facing dashboards
  • AI self-service report builder
  • Data sharing and exports
  • Emailed reports
  • Global datasets modeling
  • Direct database connections
  • Natural-language Excel data analysis
  • Chart, dashboard and report generation
  • Image and PDF to editable Excel conversion
  • AI spreadsheet template generation
  • Statistical analysis and prediction
  • On-premises deployment option
  • AI data analyst for trusted answers
  • Prompt-generated dashboards and reports
  • Governed semantic layer of reusable metrics
  • 750+ data-source and warehouse connections
  • Automations, insights and MCP server
  • SOC 2 Type II, SSO and self-hosting
Use cases
  • Automating financial and management reporting
  • Budgeting and financial planning
  • Month-end close and reconciliation
  • Regulatory and tax reporting
  • Lease accounting
  • Add analytics to a SaaS product
  • Give customers self-service reports
  • Share data securely with users
  • Ship dashboards without heavy dev work
  • Analyze spreadsheet data without formulas
  • Turn Excel files into dashboards
  • Convert table images/PDFs to Excel
  • Generating dashboards from a description
  • Asking natural-language questions of business data
  • Standardizing trusted metrics across teams
  • Embedding charts and self-hosting for compliance
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