Substack (Dave Woodley)

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October 20, 2026

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Embedded Analytics

"Whether you spend most of your time in a web application, a company portal, or some other environment, your analytics should meet you there. This was always a hard spot for the legacy BI platforms."

Dave Woodley tells fundraising teams that AI-native analytics tools are now worth a look, calling Ridge AI the most interesting for its fast, embedded dashboards.

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The Innovative Revenue Leader

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October 6, 2026

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Embedded Analytics

"The goal isn't having 500 dashboards — it's giving people a shared, trusted view of data so they can stop arguing over numbers and start taking action."

Host Seth Marrs talks with Ridge AI co-founder Ellie Fields about how a shared, trusted view of data and bounded AI help revenue teams stop debating metrics and start driving growth.

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SuperDataBros

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September 23, 2026

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Embedded Analytics

"If you're on a product team and you want to embed analytics, I would 100% add this to your list of take a demo of this or do a POC."

Ryan Dolley tests Ridge live and finds a million rows filter instantly in the browser, taking raw data to an embedded analytics app on his own website.

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The AI Analyst

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September 13, 2026

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Product

"Ridge's fast interactivity tech really brings the connection between the charts and the chats to life."

Andy Cotgreave's hands-on review of Ridge AI highlights its steerable prompting, direct chat-to-dashboard interactivity, and inline AI placement.

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August 13, 2026

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Technology

"A new architectural unit fit for AI is the self-contained analytics application."

Ryan Dolley argues that self-contained, code-built analytics applications will replace the report as the architectural unit of BI.

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SuperDataBros

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August 9, 2026

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Embedded Analytics

"Bringing data to the people beats bringing people to data every time."

Ellie Fields joins Ryan Dolley on the Super Data Brothers podcast to talk about embedded analytics.

Ryan Dolley

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The Sensemakers

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August 3, 2026

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Technology

"It can query these pre-aggregated tables, similar to what you might get from a data cube, and this allows us to give 100x and sometimes even 1000x improvement in latency."

Jeff Heer explains on the Sensemakers podcast how Mosaic builds only the aggregations a question needs, keeping exploration of millions of rows instant.

Keith Helfrich & Jonathan Drummey

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Substack (Andy Cotgreave)

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July 28, 2026

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Embedded Analytics

"The key problem was the dreaded spinning wheel you'd see while waiting for a view to render. For that reason, it's the matured technology aspect that wins the day for me."

Andy Cotgreave argues embedded analytics has finally turned the corner.

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The Sensemakers

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July 13, 2026

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Product

"We believe that people discover that it's easier, it's better, and it's performant, and your users like it instead of hate it – they'll want more and more of it."

Hosts Keith Helfrich and Jonathan Drummey talk with Ridge AI co-founder Ellie Fields about browser-based embedded analytics that finally allow people to answer all the follow up questions they inevitably have.

Keith Helfrich & Jonathan Drummey

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Local-First Conf

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July 12, 2026

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Technology

"What we learned enabling client-side analysis at the speed of human thought: your laptop is faster than you think."

Ridge AI co-founder Jeff Heer presents Mosaic, the open-source framework underpinning Ridge, showing how pushing analysis into the browser makes exploring large datasets feel instantaneous.

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The AI Analyst

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July 8, 2026

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Product

"Embedded analytics needs to be more accessible, performant, and actionable."

The AI Analyst live on LinkedIn, hosted by Andy Cotgreave: "Why we're building Ridge AI."

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Substack (Ryan Dolley)

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July 6, 2026

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Product

"Ridge AI ... and others are finding new ways to combine BI and AI that the mega vendors haven't even begun to consider."

In a review of the 2026 Gartner BI Magic Quadrant, Ryan Dolley notes Gartner's quiet shift toward AI-powered conversational BI, and lists Ridge AI among emerging startups finding new ways to combine BI and AI.

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just-tim

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July 6, 2026

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Embedded Analytics

"Data on the web is still in a really poor state...the web's the universal communication mechanism. That's where everything is."

Ellie Fields discusses how Ridge AI tackles longstanding embedded-analytics problems—poor performance, limited interactivity, and creation complexity—through browser-based computation, AI-assisted dashboard building, and natural-language data exploration.

Tim Ngwena

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SuperDataBros

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May 3, 2026

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Product

"The performance was insane."

Analytics voice Ryan Dolley on Ridge AI's exceptional performance.

Ryan Dolley

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Build and Break Through (Podcast)

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May 3, 2026

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Product

"Companies need to show their value proposition as well as talk about it."

Ellie Fields appears on R. Hunter Harris's Build and Break Through podcast, discussing why companies struggle to extract direction from data and her startup experience.

R. Hunter Harris

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Madrona

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April 5, 2026

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Product

"It’s a company born from deep personal connections, world-class technical innovation, and a founder’s firsthand experience with a problem that software companies face every day."

Madrona Ventures announces its investment in Ridge AI.

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Substack (Paolo Ciuccarelli)

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March 25, 2026

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Technology

"Ridge AI generates interactive dashboards in under a minute from a text prompt."

Data visualization in the age of AI, by Paolo Ciuccarelli.

Paolo Ciuccarelli

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November 18, 2025

"Every once in a while you meet a founder and think: this person is just meant to start a company."

Tim Porter at Madrona on Ridge AI

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November 18, 2025

"It's the first embedded analytics solution built for how software actually works today."

Mark Nelson, former Tableau CEO and Madrona Operating Partner, on Ridge AI

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UW Allen School News

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November 18, 2025

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Technology

"The work introduced a new approach to visualization recommendation and how to richly incorporate recommendations within user interfaces."

Jeff Heer receives InfoVis Test of Time Award for Voyager.

Kristine White

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November 18, 2025

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Product

"They're working on something with a ton of potential, and I can say that it's impressive out of the gate."

Podcast appearance discussing Ridge AI launch

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Ridge AI in the News

Data visualization all-stars unveil Ridge AI with $2.6M to fix the analytics problem for SaaS apps.

"Whether you spend most of your time in a web application, a company portal, or some other environment, your analytics should meet you there. This was always a hard spot for the legacy BI platforms."

"The goal isn't having 500 dashboards — it's giving people a shared, trusted view of data so they can stop arguing over numbers and start taking action."

"If you're on a product team and you want to embed analytics, I would 100% add this to your list of take a demo of this or do a POC."

"Ridge's fast interactivity tech really brings the connection between the charts and the chats to life."

"A new architectural unit fit for AI is the self-contained analytics application."

"Bringing data to the people beats bringing people to data every time."

"It can query these pre-aggregated tables, similar to what you might get from a data cube, and this allows us to give 100x and sometimes even 1000x improvement in latency."

"The key problem was the dreaded spinning wheel you'd see while waiting for a view to render. For that reason, it's the matured technology aspect that wins the day for me."

"We believe that people discover that it's easier, it's better, and it's performant, and your users like it instead of hate it – they'll want more and more of it."

"What we learned enabling client-side analysis at the speed of human thought: your laptop is faster than you think."

"Embedded analytics needs to be more accessible, performant, and actionable."

"Ridge AI ... and others are finding new ways to combine BI and AI that the mega vendors haven't even begun to consider."

"Data on the web is still in a really poor state...the web's the universal communication mechanism. That's where everything is."

"The performance was insane."

"Companies need to show their value proposition as well as talk about it."

"It’s a company born from deep personal connections, world-class technical innovation, and a founder’s firsthand experience with a problem that software companies face every day."

"Ridge AI generates interactive dashboards in under a minute from a text prompt."

"Every once in a while you meet a founder and think: this person is just meant to start a company."

"It's the first embedded analytics solution built for how software actually works today."

"The work introduced a new approach to visualization recommendation and how to richly incorporate recommendations within user interfaces."

"They're working on something with a ton of potential, and I can say that it's impressive out of the gate."