Vela reads the question a metric raises and gives you the answer in one screen. The dashboards are still there. You just stop starting with them.
pick a question Vela has already answered
ask Why did activation drop last week?Which signups actually stick?Which paying teams are about to leave?
The answer
Mobile sign-ups stalled at the workspace step.
Activation fell 8.2% because 1,940 mobile sign-ups hit the “create a workspace” step and didn’t finish. Web was flat. It started Tuesday, when a new required field shipped.
Daily activation
mobile · web
The answer
Technical, self-serve teams retain 3.1× better.
Self-serve trials from technical teams hold week-four retention 3.1× higher than the rest. Two onboarding steps, connecting a source and asking the first question, explain most of the gap.
Week-4 retention by cohort
technical · other
The answer
9 paying teams shifted to a pre-churn pattern.
Nine paying teams moved into the usage shape that precedes churn this week. All of them stopped using shared views first. Vela flagged them while there’s still time to reach out.
Engagement, flagged accounts
9 accounts · median
The product and engineering teams at
Every analytics tool hands you the same thing: a wall of charts and the job of working out what they mean. Vela starts where you actually start, with a question, and does the digging so the screen you open already has the answer on it.
01 · Cohorts
Vela ranks every cohort by how likely it is to reach week-four retention, then names the two onboarding steps that move the number.
Vela’s read
Self-serve trials from technical teams retain 3.1× better than the rest. Two steps explain most of the gap.
02 · Releases
Point Vela at the release. It compares the same users before and after, controls for the cohort, and tells you the effect with a confidence range, not a vibe.
Vela’s read
Time-to-first-doc fell 41s (±9s). The lift is real and concentrated in first-week users.
03 · Signals
Vela watches for accounts whose usage shape changes before they churn and surfaces them while you can still do something, with the behaviour that flagged them.
Vela’s read
9 paying teams shifted to a pre-churn pattern this week. All stopped using shared views.
Type the question the way you’d say it in standup. Vela maps it to the events, cohorts and windows that answer it, and shows its working so you can trust the read.
It segments, controls for the obvious confounders, runs the comparison and checks whether the result is real. The same query a careful analyst would run, in a few seconds.
One screen: the verdict in a sentence, the one chart that supports it, and the path to the raw events when you want to go deeper. Pin it, share it, set it to re-check on a schedule.
Vela isn’t a layer of summaries over data you can’t inspect. Every answer links to the exact query, the cohort definition and the events it’s built from. When you need to dig, you’re one click from the raw funnel. The difference is you no longer have to start there.
built by people tired of dashboards too
Connect a source, ask what a metric is doing, read the answer. Free to 1 million events a month, no card.