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· Olivier Moreau · Use cases  · 1 min read

Ask questions about your own data

Hand Brain a spreadsheet or an export once, then ask in plain language — "which of these aren't in my CRM?" — even across several files.

Hand Brain a spreadsheet or an export once, then ask in plain language — "which of these aren't in my CRM?" — even across several files.

You already have the data — a contact export, a sales extract, a member list. The questions are simple; prying the answer out of the file is the annoying part.

So hand it to Brain. Import a CSV, Excel (.xlsx) or Parquet file once, then ask in plain language — “which of these contacts aren’t in my CRM yet?”, “sum revenue by month”, “who signed up but never logged in?”. Brain turns the question into a query, runs it, and answers with a clean table.

The real trick is joining. Import two exports and ask Brain to match them on a key — an email, a company ID, an order id — to find what’s missing, duplicated, or new. The kind of thing that used to mean a VLOOKUP and a lost afternoon.

Good to know: your file stays in your private vault — Brain reads it, nothing leaves. Queries are read-only, so there’s nothing to break, and it handles files up to a couple of gigabytes.

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