The decisions you'll make tomorrow are buried in your data today.
We started Sudden Data because we believed BI tools had stopped being useful. Reports take weeks. Dashboards disagree. The "single source of truth" never arrives. We're fixing that.
Make every decision a data-informed one — without making everyone a data analyst.
For 30 years, "self-serve BI" has been a promise that never delivered. We're building it for real, by combining a governed semantic layer, native AI, and dashboards anyone in your company can use without a four-hour training session.
Sudden Data was founded in 2021 by three engineers from Stripe, Snowflake, and Palantir who got tired of building the same internal BI infrastructure at every company. Today, we serve 12,000+ teams from seed-stage startups to Fortune 100 enterprises.
Five principles we won't compromise on
Speed is a feature
If a query takes 10 seconds, the analyst stops asking the next question. Sudden Data is engineered for sub-second response on the queries you actually run.
Governance is not a tax
Definitions, lineage, and access control should be invisible to end users — but bulletproof underneath. The semantic layer is the answer.
Trust over magic
Every AI-generated insight shows the underlying SQL. Every metric shows its definition. No black boxes. No fabricated numbers. You see exactly what the system did.
Pricing should be fair
No surprise overages. No "viewer seat" gotchas. We charge for the people building dashboards. Everyone else uses the platform free.
Open by default
Your dashboards export to JSON. Your queries are standard SQL. Your data lives in your warehouse, not ours. We're a tool, not a hostage situation.
Customers ship the roadmap
Every feature we've shipped started as a customer request. We publish our roadmap publicly and invite our customers to design alongside us.
Built by data engineers who've been on your side of the table
A 140-person team across San Francisco, Toronto, and Amsterdam. We've been the analyst at 2 AM trying to fix a broken pipeline. We're building the tool we wished we'd had.
Join us. Help every team in the world make smarter decisions.
We're hiring across engineering, design, sales, and customer success. Remote-friendly across North America and Europe. Generous equity. Real ownership. A team that ships.
- Remote-first across 12 countries
- Top-of-market compensation + equity
- $5K annual learning & development budget
- Quarterly team offsites in real cities
- Comprehensive health & dental, anywhere
