From a day to seconds
The same question, asked the old way and asked in AskMe.
← All work
AskMe. Stop waiting for reports. Just ask.
AskMe lets anyone in a business ask its data a question in plain words and get the number, table or chart in seconds, with proof of exactly where it came from. No SQL, no Excel chasing. It only ever reads your data.
- Client
- iDefender IT Services Pvt Ltd — in-house product
- Used by
- BazaarBandhu · Frolic Infra
- Category
- AI Product · Ask-your-data Analytics
- Deployment
- Hosted by iDefender, or on your own servers
- Status
- Live · free 20-minute demo
The challenge
In most growing businesses, one person knows where the numbers live. Everyone else waits.
The problem
An owner asks for last month's top products in the morning. By evening an Excel file arrives for the wrong month, and the meeting has already happened without the numbers. The data exists. Getting an answer out of it takes a day.
Overview
AskMe connects to the places a business already keeps its data: PostgreSQL databases, Google Sheets, Excel online, Word and PDF documents, websites and uploaded CSV or Excel files. People type questions the way they would ask a colleague and get the answer in seconds, along with the data, period, filters and assumptions behind it.
What it does
From question to answer to a report that keeps arriving.
- Plain-language questions — "Sales by city this month", then "only Patna", "compare with last year", "as a chart".
- Number, table or chart — switch views in one click; download as Excel, CSV or an image.
- Shows its working — every answer lists its data, period, filters and assumptions.
- Asks before guessing — "Orders placed or orders shipped?" instead of an invented answer.
- Saved reports — refresh themselves and arrive on a dashboard, by email or in Mattermost.
- Learns your language — teach it what "active customer" or "our fiscal year" means.
- On your phone — installs like an app and notifies you when a report is ready.
- Live in an afternoon — connecting a database or Google Sheet takes minutes.
Inside AskMe
Screens from idefender.ai ↗, where the live demo runs on sample shop data.
For the whole team
Owners, sales, operations, finance and HR each ask their own questions.
Read-only by design
What AskMe can and can't do with your data, stated up front.
Built by a security company
It only reads
AskMe can never change, add or delete data. It checks the database login when you connect a source and warns you if that login could write. Phone numbers, emails and IDs are flagged so they can be hidden or allowed in totals only, and every person gets a role: viewer, member, editor or owner.
Your servers if you want
Choose the AI model per workspace, or run AskMe on your own infrastructure; iDefender can set it up and look after it for you. Text in documents that tries to instruct the AI is flagged and left out until someone checks it, and shared answers open only inside your workspace.
In use
AskMe runs on the data of teams we already build for.
BazaarBandhu
The wholesale commerce platform behind our BazaarBandhu case study uses AskMe on its own business data.
Frolic Infra
The civil-construction company in Patna that runs Niyantā, the construction ERP we built, uses AskMe on its own business data.
“Bring one question your team asks every week. Leave with the answer, on your own numbers.”
— iDefender IT Services · builders of AskMe. The free 20-minute demo connects a sample of your data, read-only, and AskMe answers it live: idefender.ai — Ask your data. Get answers. ↗. More of what we build and run: the iDefender network.