The Ridge Platform

A Ridge is a dashboard and a Data Agent that refer to a specific data set. The dashboard is highly performance and interactive. It provides sense-making for the most common questions of that data. The Data Agent allows people to ask additional questions that may be answerable from the data, even if that data isn't shown in the dashboard.

When you embed a Ridge in your site, the flow for end users looks like this: 

• Users visit your site. Your app authenticates them. 
• When they navigate to a page with an embedded Ridge, your server issues a JWT / signed token to our webapp to authorize them. The Ridge itself is whitelabeled– it looks and feels like your site, and users don’t have to log in again. 
• Our webapp sends the data needed for the dashboard and dashboard specification directly to the user’s browser.  
• Each user sees data only for their own organization. 
• When a user asks a question of the Data Agent, the Ridge manages the request to the AI providers. The AI provider returns SQL, which Ridge checks for accuracy then executes locally on your user’s machine. All AI-generated queries are executed within the same permission and dataset boundaries of the Ridge itself.
• The user sees fresh data, refreshed on a schedule you define. 

Because compute happens in the browser, data warehouse compute is significantly lower than to server-centric BI tools.

Ridge leverages browser-based technology for exceptional performance & interactivity. By bringing data directly to a user’s browser and using local hardware to compute results locally, Ridge dashboards are an order of magnitude faster than legacy, server-based dashboards. 

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Ridge is built on two key open source libraries: 

1. DuckDB, an open-source high-performance analytical data management system
2. Mosaic, a state-of-the-art, open source visualization platform. Mosaic manages queries for all aspects of the interface, optimizing them and allowing for linking between them and highly scalable processing. Jeff Heer, one of the authors of Mosaic, is a founder of Ridge AI. More on Mosaic’s architecture.  

Built secure by design from the very beginning.

Ridge integrates with your authentication and authorization systems: 

• Integrates with common OAuth2 systems.
• JWT-based user and tenant scoping.
• Row / dataset isolation per tenant.
• Encrypted data in transit
• Secure credential storage for data connections.
• SOC 2 Type I compliance (Type II in progress)