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ANALYTICS
Velocity6.3

Analytics canvas tool combining SQL, Python, and visual analytics

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Count's agent now shows the chain of cells and assumptions behind every answer it gives.

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◆Current state
Count is a data-canvas analytics tool organized around an AI agent. Its late-October release added Reasoning Chains, which link each claim and chart in an agent answer back to the cells, sources and assumptions behind it. Over the summer it rebuilt the agent with web data and auto layout, moved Python to a server sandbox with any PyPI package, and added longer agent conversations, a faster empty-canvas start and catalog views that stay populated while they refresh.
◆Where it's heading
Count is making the agent the main way to work in the canvas, then adding the checks that let people trust its output. Reasoning Chains and server-side Python with managed secrets point at analysis that can be audited and run on real data. Steady fix lists for agent edits show the agent is still being hardened.
◆Prediction
Expect more ways to inspect and correct agent work, building on Reasoning Chains. The entries don't show whether chains will extend to Slack answers.

◆Recent moves

  1. 15d ago

    Reasoning Chains

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    Count's agent answers now come with Reasoning Chains: every claim, statement and chart links back through the cells, sources, assumptions and inferences behind it, whether the evidence came from a database, MCP connection, website or PDF. Each claim is labelled as an observation or a judgment.

  2. 29d ago

    Longer agent conversations

    Count's agent now condenses long conversation history so chats can continue without restarting, alongside dbt 1.5 build and Snowflake connector fixes.

  3. 1mo ago

    No gaps while catalog views refresh

    Cells keep showing a catalog view's last results while it refreshes, so dashboards don't go blank during scheduled refreshes. Most of the rest are fixes to how the agent edits canvases, part of hardening the agent before Reasoning Chains.

  4. 2mo ago

    SSO sign-in banner and clearer SQL Server errors

    Enterprise users who signed in the wrong way now see a banner pointing them to SSO, and SQL Server errors show the database's own message. Small fixes with no change to the agent or canvas.

  5. 2mo ago

    A faster start from an empty canvas

    An empty canvas now offers starter questions for the agent and a quick path to connect a database or MCP server. It makes the agent the first thing a new user meets, alongside a long list of cell and agent edit fixes.

  6. 3mo ago

    New sign-in and sign-up

    Sign-in and sign-up are rebuilt, and sign-in now shows workspaces to join in Count's other US or EU region. Agents started from Slack can also save canvas versions.