Whaly seems to fit the bill for all your points. Lightweight yet robust BI tool that's focused getting small companies up and running with their data quickly. They also have bespoke 'customer portals' that you can share and brand for each of your customers. Hope this helps! I think they also have a free trial. Source: 12 months ago

I totally agree with the approach of having metrics in the BI tool - it makes it easier to collaborate around this metrics layer, and makes it easier to surface any potential staleness issues to business users directly. There are a few BI tools (more geared to small businesses as you said) that do this (Whaly for example). Source: 12 months ago

There are some modern BI tools that are low/no-code and that combine data sources and can get you up and running quickly. Whaly (http://whaly.io) for example specializes in helping founders, operations leads, non-technical folks to do this really quickly. They also have a free trial if you want to check it out. Maybe you can then hire someone from there to manage the tool and build reporting, but at less cost... Source: 12 months ago

Try checking out Whaly (http://whaly.io) they kind of specialize in founders and startups who need to get a handle on data, and I think they do everything you described. They also have a free trial and can help you set it all up. Source: about 1 year ago

Thanks for this! I agree these are solid platforms, however, there are more modern BI solutions that might be a better fit for certain companies (depending on size and data maturity.) Particularly if there's no data team at the company, there are solutions that offer modeling completely in SQL or no-code (Whaly is one example). Source: about 1 year ago

Hey HN! I am asking out of genuine curiosity, and perhaps doing a little market research. My team uses https://www.donut.com/ and https://officevibe.com/ but I'm pretty sure we're on the free tier for both. Do you work in a team that pays monthly for any cool Slack apps or integrations? Which ones? If you're not the one paying, do you find it useful - or annoying? Cheers! - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Officevibe, which is an employee experience platform, regularly sends out Slack notifications on behalf of their customers asking employees to complete a brief survey. Their engineering team utilizes the Automations API to create lists of users for whom the Slack survey could not be delivered and send them an email survey instead. - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago