No. Summand fits models on your data for your workspace only. Its assistant runs on Anthropic's Claude, and Anthropic's API receives what a question needs, such as computed statistics, column descriptions and a few sample category values, plus the rows a query returns (at most 1,000). Workspace search indexes dataset metadata with Cohere's embedding model on AWS Bedrock.
Summand's connectors copy your source on a schedule into Iceberg tables in Summand's AWS account (us-east-1). Fivetran handles the managed-pipeline sources and writes into the same account. Summand never writes back to your warehouse or deploys into your cloud. Elbi runs wherever you install it.
Enterprise adds single sign-on (SAML and OIDC), SCIM provisioning, and audit logs streamed to your SIEM. Summand has HIPAA-aligned controls and supports GDPR and CCPA data-subject rights, and a customer-specific BAA is available on request. Our trust center at trust.intelligible.ai has the details.
Summand is our enterprise platform: a hosted service where your team, and the AI tools they use, ask questions of your organization's data and build on each other's findings. Elbi is our open-source project for a single AI agent: you install it on your own machine, connect it to Claude, Cursor or another agent, and it keeps what that agent learns from your data. They're separate products built on the same idea, keeping what AI learns from data along with the work behind it. Teams choose Summand; developers who want that memory for their own agent start with Elbi.
Scheduled components re-run and write a new version. Old versions stay as they were. For feature effects and column stats you can overlay two versions to see what moved.
Yes. Summand's free plan lets you upload CSVs up to 50 MB, keep three datasets active at a time and ask 20 questions a week. Pro, at $99 a month for the whole account, raises uploads to 1 GB and removes the dataset and question limits, and individuals at academic institutions can get it free: sign up with a .edu email and ask us to upgrade you. Enterprise adds database and other connectors. The pricing page compares every plan. Elbi, our open-source project, is free under Apache-2.0.
A semantic layer holds what people wrote down, like metric formulas and business rules. Semantic layers now have a standard, Apache Ossie (formerly Open Semantic Interchange, or OSI), and Elbi imports and exports it. An empirical layer, which Summand and Elbi both build, holds what the data does: distributions and effects computed against the actual rows.