From question, to answer, to action.
Most BI tools stop at the chart. Arcus keeps going. Watch how a single question becomes a grounded answer with a reasoning trail, a visualization, and the raw data needed to review it.
Start with a real question. In real language.
No SQL. No drag-and-drop dimension picker. No 14-step funnel builder. Type what you'd ask a smart analyst over coffee. Arcus understands the verbs that matter to your business.
- Picks up your jargon. "Aging WIP", "magic moment", "EBIT bridge" — Arcus learns the language of your team.
- Three modes. Quick answer for facts. Deep dive for analyses. Brief mode for written summaries you'd send to a CEO.
- Suggested next questions. Don't know what to ask? Arcus reads your data and proposes the questions worth asking this week.
Watch it reason. Not just answer.
Arcus shows its plan, runs queries against your warehouse, joins data from multiple sources, validates assumptions, and only then writes prose. You can pause, edit any step, and re-run from there.
- The reasoning trace. Every plan, query, and intermediate result is visible. No black box.
- Tool transparency. See the SQL. See the dbt model. See the connector and the API call.
- Edit any step. "Use Q2 instead of full year" → re-run the rest of the chain. Like Jupyter for analysis, but conversational.
Grounded prose. Not glossy slop.
The answer reads like an analyst memo, not a marketing slide. Every number is a clickable citation back to the rows that produced it. If Arcus can't ground a claim, it tells you — instead of guessing.
- Inline citations. Click any number to see the rows, the SQL, and the freshness timestamp.
- Recommended actions. Arcus doesn't just describe — it proposes the next move, with the trade-offs.
- One-click artifacts. The chart, the table, the SQL, the brief — every output ready to share, pin, or schedule.
Q3 paid pulse is down −14.2% vs Q2, and 71% of the drop traces to Meta on iOS[1]. CAPI match-rate dropped from 94% to 68% after the Sept 9 SDK update[2]. Google and TikTok held flat.
Recommendation: Reallocate $180k from Meta iOS to Meta Android + TikTok Spark Ads while you patch CAPI. Estimated recovery: +9.4% by week four.
Review it, save it, share it.
An answer is just a starting point. Arcus helps turn reviewed threads into durable artifacts and handoffs while preserving the source trail. Recurring briefs, alerts, and integrations are scoped by pilot.
- Pin to dashboard. Promote reviewed answers into reusable views when the workflow is ready.
- Schedule the brief. Recurrence is preview scope and depends on customer setup.
- Watch for drift. Threshold alerts are enabled only when the data and approval path are scoped.
The little things that make it usable.
Reference earlier work by name
Every turn gets a name (T1, T2…). Reference them in follow-ups, share them as links, or compare across threads.
Drop into raw SQL anytime
Your data team isn't replaced — they're amplified. Edit the generated query, save it as a custom metric, or skip the agent entirely.
For heavier work
Notebook-style workflows are customer-scoped extensions. Arcus should run alongside, not in place of, your existing tools.
Argue about the answer
Threads are collaborative. Tag a teammate, leave a comment on a turn, branch into a "what if" without losing the original.
Diff every re-run
Re-running a thread doesn't lose the old answer. Arcus stores every version, with diffs you can read like a Git log.
Turn a thread into a workflow
Promote reviewed threads into reusable surfaces when permissions and source coverage are ready.
Highlight, ask, drill
Use a chart or table value as context for the next question when the underlying result supports it.
Know what every answer costs
Each turn shows tokens, dollars, and seconds. Set per-team caps. We're aligned with your finance team, not against them.
URLs that age well
Every thread, turn, dashboard, and tile has a stable URL. Drop one in Slack and your teammates see a live preview.
"The product principle is simple: every answer should carry the evidence that would let a finance or data owner challenge it."
See it think for yourself.
Connect a warehouse, ask a real question, and watch Arcus reason through it. For production pilots, we help scope the warehouse and security setup first.