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A startup with in-house AI analytics · Volo portfolio company

Build an in-house analytics tool that anyone can query in plain English

Investor calls it ridiculously powerful; no numbers

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What they did

A Volo portfolio company built its own internal analytics tool that anyone in the company can use with natural language, removing the bottleneck of analysts or engineers writing SQL. Andrew notes it needs ongoing work so it understands the data structures (garbage in, garbage out).

What happened

Described as ridiculously powerful; expected to raise decision velocity.

In their words

The Bootstrapper's Path to $10M ARR – Andrew Maguire, Volo Ventures

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David BarnardWhat's the most impactful experiment or change you've seen this year? Not operating apps yourself, maybe in a portfolio company or across the industry, what's the most impactful thing you've seen this year?

Andrew MaguireOkay, I'll give two real quick. I will give one for myself, which is that I started building my own CRMs and productivity tools, but the impactful part is teaching them to learn and improve. That's what I use Zoe Computer for basically. I have a CRM, I have a to - do list, it's all connected to my email. I'm not an engineer, so I'm not going to blow myself up like I would using OpenClaw, but then I actually have it evaluate its own performance and get better on crafting priority to - dos for me. And that has been really, really cool. And I'm just excited to see what happens in software in general with those sorts of techniques. And then I have a portfolio company that built their own internal analytics tool that's just ridiculously powerful and anybody can use with natural language. And so that's one thing on the portfolio side where I just see the democratization of analytical capabilities within companies super, super powerful and I think will lead to more velocity and better decisions.

Andrew MaguireSo those are two.

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Tags: ai, natural-language-analytics, internal-tools