Welcome to sanda

sanda brings your business systems into a warehouse of your own, gives the data a shared business language, and puts it to work in answers, search and reports.

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sanda is a managed data platform for Australian businesses. You connect the systems your business already runs, such as your accounting package, your shop, your CRM or a database. sanda lands that data in a warehouse that belongs to your workspace, describes it in the terms your team uses, and then lets you ask questions of it, search it, hand it to an AI assistant and report on it.

You do not need to write SQL to use it. cherry, sanda's AI data agent, writes and runs the queries for you and shows you the query behind every answer. If you or your technical colleague prefer SQL, the warehouse is a standard PostgreSQL database and you can work in it directly.

A trial runs for 7 days, includes the whole product, and comes with A$10 of free credit. It needs no card.

How the layers fit together

Data moves down the page, from your systems to the ways you use it.

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  Your systems and CSV files
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            |  managed sync, on a schedule
            v
  sanda warehouse (your own PostgreSQL database, in Sydney)
    raw | derived | mapping
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            |  what you put on the map is published to mapping
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  Semantic fluid (tables, relationships, metrics, dimensions, filters)
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  cherry | sanda search | MCP assistants | Reports | Excel and Power BI

Layer	What it does	Read more
Connections	Bring data from your systems, or from a CSV file, into the warehouse on a schedule you choose.	Connections
sanda warehouse	Holds everything that lands. Each workspace gets its own dedicated PostgreSQL database, held in Sydney.	Warehouse
Semantic fluid	The shared business language on top of the warehouse. You put tables on a map, join them, and define what a number such as `net revenue` means once.	Semantic fluid
cherry	The AI data agent in the console. It answers questions, builds views and reports, and walks a new workspace through setup.	cherry
sanda search	Finds records by meaning as well as by words, across the text in your tables.	Search
MCP	Lets AI assistants you already use, such as Claude, read your semantic fluid through an open standard.	MCP
Reports	Canvases of charts, figures, tables and written analysis, emailed to your team or published to a portal for your readers.	Reports

sanda search is included from the Standard edition, and on every trial. The rest of the product, MCP included, is in every edition. See editions for the detail.

Because cherry, search, MCP and reports all read through the semantic fluid, they agree with each other. A net revenue figure in a report is the same figure cherry quotes and the same figure an assistant returns.

Who sanda is for

sanda is for businesses that keep their numbers in several systems and want one place to ask questions of them. The people who use it day to day are usually a finance lead, an operations manager, or the one technical person on the team.

Your data is held in Sydney, and the price is a flat monthly fee for the workspace plus what you use. Nothing is priced per seat. How sanda works explains where data lives and what is metered.

How these docs are organised

The tabs across the top of the site each answer a different question.

Tab	Use it to
Guides	Do a task or understand a concept, one product area at a time: warehouse, connections, modelling, semantic fluid, search, cherry, reports, workspace and billing.
Connectors	Look up a source system and how to connect it.
Developers	Connect AI assistants over MCP, or open the semantic fluid in Excel and Power BI over OData.
Reference	Look up an exact fact: the glossary, limits, permission scopes, sync modes, filters, sheet formulas, SQL and keyboard shortcuts.
Release notes	See what has changed.

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