Answers you can defend.
Canon governs your metrics so every AI answer has a source, an approver, and an audit trail.
Every answer shows the approved metric that answered it — traced, versioned, auditable.
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from CSV to first answer
metrics drafted per upload
answers with audit trail
The problem
Your team makes decisions on numbers nobody can explain.
Numbers nobody agrees on
Finance says $4.2M. Sales says $4.6M. Both are right — by different definitions. The meeting derails.
No trail, no trust
Where did that number come from? Which query? Nobody can say. When the auditor asks, you scramble.
Metric drift kills confidence
A data engineer changes a model. Dashboards break quietly. The business finds out during the board deck.
What you get
Every piece of the governance stack.
Not another AI chatbot. The infrastructure that makes AI answers defensible.
Approval gate
Metrics go live only after an approver signs off. Editors draft; approvers publish. The boundary is enforced in code.
Detected-metric chip
Every AI answer shows exactly which approved metric answered it — version, source, confidence. Not a guess.
Nightly drift detection
A golden query locks each metric. If the underlying data shifts, the metric auto-reverts to draft before anyone notices.
Full audit log
Every question, answer, and metric used is timestamped and searchable from day one. Compliance asks; you click.
Wizard-drafted metrics
Upload a CSV and Canon drafts 5+ metric definitions automatically — name, description, dimensions, measures. No SQL.
Tamper-evident artifacts
Generated YAML and docs carry checksums. A hand-edited file gets flagged before it can poison an answer.
Why not just use what you have
Governed answers vs. everything else.
BI tools need SQL. AI gives untraced answers. Canon gives you both — governed.
| Capability | BIBI / spreadsheet | AI chatRaw AI chatbot | Canon |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natural language queries | ✗SQL required | ✓untraced guesses | ✓governed answers |
| Every answer traced to an approved metric | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Approval gate before answers go live | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Nightly drift detection (golden query) | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Full audit log — every question & answer | partialquery logs only | ✗ | ✓ |
| Non-technical users can define metrics | ✗needs analyst | ✗ | ✓wizard + plain English |
How it works
From CSV to governed metrics in 5 minutes.
Wizard drafts metrics from your data
Upload a CSV. Canon profiles columns, detects types, and drafts 5+ metric definitions in plain English — no SQL required.
Approver locks it in the ledger
An approver reviews the draft, enters their governance key, and publishes. Canon generates the governed model and golden query.
Every answer is traced and auditable
Users ask in natural language. Each answer shows the metric chip, version, and source rows. The audit log captures everything.
Who uses Canon
Built for teams where the numbers matter.
Head of Data
Stop being the bottleneck between business questions and answers.
Define every metric once — approved name, definition, governed query — and enforce it everywhere. You stop re-explaining what revenue means.
CFO / VP Finance
Every board-deck number has a chain of custody.
Finance and data aligned on a single approved definition. Every number that goes to the board has a source, version, and approver on record.
Compliance Lead
Full lineage from source to answer, one click.
Canon logs every question, every metric, every answer — timestamped from day one. Pass your next audit without pulling the data team off sprints.
Early adopters
Teams that need defensible answers.
From finance to compliance to data engineering — Canon gives every team a single source of governed truth.
The first time a stakeholder asked where a number came from and I could click straight to the approved metric, source rows, and approver — that was the moment. No more 'I'll get back to you.'
Marcus R.
Head of Analytics, Series B SaaS
We had three versions of 'ARR' floating across Finance, Sales, and the board deck. Canon forced us to define one. Now every governed answer cites the same approved definition. The quarterly review runs 40 minutes faster.
Sophia L.
VP Finance, PE-backed retailer
The drift detection alone is worth it. A schema change used to silently break dashboards for days. Now the golden query fails, the metric reverts to draft, and the on-call pager stays quiet.
Daniel K.
Data Engineering Lead, fintech startup
Our auditors asked for the full query history behind three metrics in one afternoon. I exported the audit log, sent it over, and the conversation was done in an hour. That used to take two engineers a week.
Aisha P.
Compliance Manager, Series C healthtech
Common questions
What teams ask before they start.
- Is my data safe? Does Canon store it?
- Canon processes CSV data to draft metric definitions, then discards it. Your raw data never leaves your session. The governed artifacts (metric YAML, golden queries) live in your Canon workspace — not on third-party analytics servers.
- Does it work with our data warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift)?
- The current version connects via CSV upload, which works with any stack — export a sample, upload, and Canon drafts your metrics. Native warehouse connectors are on the roadmap. Your approved metric definitions are warehouse-agnostic YAML.
- How long does setup take?
- Under 5 minutes from CSV to first governed metric. Upload → wizard drafts definitions → approver publishes one → ask a question. No SQL, no data engineering, no integration scripts.
- Who controls which metrics get approved?
- You do. The ledger is role-gated: editors draft, approvers publish. Canon enforces the boundary in code — no one bypasses the approval step. You set who holds the approver key.
- What happens when underlying data changes?
- Each approved metric has a golden query that locks in the expected result. Canon runs it nightly. If the data shifts and the query result changes beyond tolerance, the metric auto-reverts to draft before it can poison an AI answer.
- What's the pricing?
- Canon is in private beta. Early teams get founder pricing — email us to reserve a spot. We're building with a small group of data teams who care about governance before scaling access.
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Pricing
Simple, transparent pricing.
Canon is in private beta. Early teams get founder pricing — full access while we build with a small group who care about governance before scale.
Private Beta
during beta · no credit card
- Up to 10 data connections
- Unlimited governed metrics
- RBAC — approver + editor roles
- Full audit trail (every answer logged)
- Nightly drift detection
- Multi-surface (branded query pages)
- Email support
Enterprise
talk to us about your team's needs
- Unlimited data connections
- Priority onboarding call
- On-premise / private cloud option
- SSO + custom RBAC policies
- Dedicated Slack support channel
- SLA + 99.9% uptime guarantee
- Custom data-retention policy
Founding-team pricing available post-beta for early adopters. Email us to get in early.
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