Strata

About Strata

High-performance, AI-safe self-service analytics — a governed semantic layer fused with beautiful-by-default dashboards, for humans and agents.

In the maker’s words

Hello HN, I'm Ajo and I built Strata. I spent 4 years at Netflix solving self service for non-technical business users. I think I cracked it with my unique approach to semantic layer design. The key challenge is balancing expressiveness with ease of use for our non technical colleagues. It just so happens that focus made it work pretty well with LLMs too. Strata is a full stack solution. It includes a semantic layer, dashboards, subscriptions, and google sheets exports. All of it can be done view agent conversation or via MCP. Some key concepts and features: - Names are strict. Only one thing called Revenue can exist in a project. If revenue is mapped to multiple tables, the query grain plus speed will decide table. - Strict naming conventions lends itself to enabling Automatic data blending acrros fact domains. - Partition and Aggregate aware semantic routing. This allows you to load a …

Where people found it

• Hacker NewsShow HN: Strata – an expressive semantic layer that can say no to your LLM24 points16 comments3 days ago