Today we're launching Ask Grapple to make it even easier to build dashboards with AI. Ask Grapple is a /command interface that supports natural language, so you can build entire dashboards in seconds—without ever leaving your keyboard. No more hunting and pecking.

Ask Grapple can do things like:

• /filter apply a filter to your project like "who signed up last quarter"
• /bar create a bar chart like "sum pipeline per quarter per stage"
• /formula create a spreadsheet-style formula like "how long did it take to close each deal"
• /rollup create a calculation like "how long on average does it take to solve a ticket for each customer"
• /map join data across apps like connect Stripe to Hubspot or Salesforce

Most data tools are tedious and require a lot of pointing and clicking. Their UIs are often so compact and precise you wince to use them. If we're going to 10x the number of data experts inside every company, there can't be any wincing. Grapple needs to be both fast and easy to use.

Command palettes are great because they pack a lot of functionality, and they're deterministic. You know exactly what they're going to do. Conversely, natural language saves you from having to click a bunch of buttons to do something simple. Ask Grapple combines these interface designs to give you the best of both worlds.

With Ask Grapple, you have the speed of a keyboard-driven interface with the freedom of natural language.

May and June were so busy, we forgot to tell you what we shipped! Andrew joined the team full-time and got right to work shipping these awesome features:

• New Data Sources: Ordway, Kit, Attio, Instantly, NPM, and MongoDB
• Rollups: aggregate across apps with natural language
• Universal Data Library: automatic data cleaning and modeling
• Percy: smarter AI features
• Charts show growth rates to help you monitor performance
• Grapple got WAY faster, most pages load in under 1 second now!

New Data Sources

We added support for SaaS billing platform, Ordway, so you can build ARR Waterfall reports and understand financial performance. Then Kit, Attio, and Instantly, bring more of your GTM data into Grapple. And for you nerds, we added support for tracking NPM downloads and bringing in data from MongoDB clusters.

Rollups

Rollups are a foundational feature for Grapple: they allow you to aggregate across multiple apps from a single field. For example, count the number of Zendesk tickets per customer, or calculate how many days old the oldest still open Zendesk ticket is. Or, pull in the latest payment status for a customer from Stripe.

Rollups are particularly useful dashboards like Customer Health Tracking where you want to combine data from several apps into a single view. For example, bring in data from Zendesk, Stripe, your app's product database, and Asana for a full picture of your customers across every touchpoint.

In the demo below, Jack builds a customer health tracker with data from Hubspot, Zendesk, Stripe, and Supabase:

Universal Data Library

One of the slowest parts of visualizing business data is modeling it. With Univeral Data Library, data modeling is fully automated. This means your data is queryable right away—no matter the data source.

In technical terms, data like dates and numbers are automatically normalized so you can ask questions like "what was my sales pipeline last quarter?" or "how much did my team close this week?".

Universal Data Library also automatically joins your data. For example, if you want to work with Hubspot deals, UDL will automatically join owners, companies, contacts, and line items. This means you can pull data from these other objects directly into your report right away without writing SQL joins or vlookups.

Meet, Percy

Percy is your AI data engineering working in the background to understand and act on your natural language requests. Percy translates natural language like "who is my top sales rep" into a beautiful bar chart.

We've improved Percy's performance dramatically the last few months. Percy can now generate:

• Filters, including those using dates
• Spreadsheet formulas so you never have to hit =... again
• Rollups, yes the new powerful aggregation feature you saw above
• Any type chart or data visualization

In fact, Universal Data Library and Percy work together to deliver highly accurate, transparent dashboards. Percy talks to UDL and can see the shape of your data but not the data itself. So you never have to worry about your sensitive business data being used to train models or shared with 3rd parties.

We launched a ton of great new features in Grapple this month!

Highlights:

1. We have a new gallery that makes it easy to discover some of the dashboards we can create, and the data sources we support.
2. We shipped support for 3 new datasources – GitHub, Supabase, and PostgreSQL.
3. Grapple now supports SSO from both Microsoft and Google.

Watch the demo

Welcome to the March 2025 edition of What's New with Grapple! In March, we onboarded our first few power users and so the features we shipped in March were designed to help them use Grapple with their teams.

Highlights:

• Visual Joins: this is the big one! You can now map data across your sources visually.
• Control how much data Grapple syncs (which tables, how often, how far back, etc)
• New data Sources: Hubspot Forms (marketers love this!), QuickBooks Online, Typeform
• Better handling of numeric values like numbers, currency across filters, charts, and more

Welcome to the February 2025 edition of What's New with Grapple! This month we shipped dozens of improvements and new features aimed at making it easier to get started with Grapple.

Highlights:

• Login with Google
• Faster Google Sheets syncing
• New data sources: Chargify (Maxio), Salesforce
• AI support for Dates
• Export to CSV
• Natural-language spreadsheet formulas
• Queries load 3x faster now!

Watch the demo!