Announcing Glow Reports v1: Making Data-Driven Decisions Accessible to Everyone
We're excited to unveil Glow Reports v1; a complete reimagining of how everyone, technical and non-technical alike, can work with data.
Today marks a significant milestone. We're excited to unveil Glow Reports v1; a complete reimagining of how everyone, technical and non-technical alike, can work with data.
The Vision: Analytics for Everyone
Here's what drives us: Data shouldn't require a technical degree to understand.
Whether you're a founder making strategic decisions, a marketer measuring campaign performance, or a team lead reporting to stakeholders. Data should expand your knowledge, inform your choices, and accelerate your decision-making. Not slow it down. Not require a data team. Not create barriers.
That's why we built Glow Reports: to make analytics accessible to everyone and eliminate the friction between data and decisions.
The Problem We're Solving
Teams waste 5-10 hours every single week on reporting tasks that add zero value. Cleaning data. Writing queries. Formatting charts. Rerunning the same analysis. Exporting to PowerPoint.
But here's what matters: The real cost isn't time. It's delayed decisions.
Every hour spent wrestling with data is an hour not spent making decisions, exploring opportunities, or acting on insights. Glow Reports v1 exists to eliminate that waste and get you from data to decision faster.
What's New: Three Core Capabilities
1. Datasources That Just Work
Analytics shouldn't be a battle against your data. Upload Excel workbooks with multiple sheets and they instantly become a unified datasource, no splitting and no manual file management.
Automatic naming based on your uploaded file means zero busywork. Real-time visibility shows exactly how we're preparing your files for analysis. No black box. No surprises.
What was painful is now effortless. What was opaque is now transparent.
2. Insights: Analytics for Everyone
This is where Glow Reports becomes truly powerful, and truly accessible.
Insights are the strategic building blocks of your analysis. They answer questions like "What's our customer retention?" or "Which products are trending?" You don't need to be a data analyst to create them.
Build insights your way:
- Technical users: Write SQL queries for complete control
- Non-technical users: Describe what you want and let our AI build the query
- No SQL knowledge required, just ask.
Analyze deeper with one click. The bulb icon (💡) on every insight triggers our AI to dig into patterns, anomalies, and opportunities you might have missed. It's like having a data scientist on call.
Your complete insights library in one place. Edit, refine, or remove insights anytime. Think of it as your personal analytics dashboard that powers every report you create.
What's coming next: Multi-datasource insights that let you join tables and combine data sources in ways that aren't possible today. This unlocks answers to questions that require looking across your entire data landscape.
3. Reports That Drive Decisions
Beautiful reports. Smart analysis. One click to regenerate.
Multiple chart types with animated visualizations make your data come alive. A complete visual library that looks professional by default, whether you're sharing with your team, your board, or your clients.
Your choice, your control:
- Create insights inside the report builder
- Build insights first, then generate reports
- Mix and match based on your workflow
Regenerate in seconds. Need to refresh your data before a meeting? One click and our AI rebuilds your entire analysis and report. No more scrambling to update slides.
Smarter AI analysis that's shorter, more concise, and genuinely insightful. Our AI doesn't just show you numbers, it tells you what they mean. It spots patterns. Flags anomalies. Surfaces actionable findings. This is analytics designed for decision-making, not data exploration.
Beautiful PDF exports look professional when you send them to teams and stakeholders. PowerPoint and slide exports are coming soon for Pro+ subscribers.
What's Next: Our Roadmap
Glow Reports v1 is just the foundation. Here's what we're building:
Q4 2025: Multi-datasource insights, advanced scheduling
Q1 2026: Database connectors (MySQL, PostgreSQL), REST API integrations, Google Analytics connector, report templates
Q2 2026: PowerPoint reports
Your feedback drives our roadmap. Your use cases inspire our priorities. We're building this with you.
From Data to Decision: Why This Matters
Our vision is simple: Analytics should accelerate decision-making, not slow it down.
If you're a founder, you should be making strategic decisions backed by data, not waiting days for a report. If you're a marketer, you should be optimizing campaigns based on insights, not exporting CSVs. If you're a team lead, you should be informing your team with clear findings, not wrestling with pivot tables.
Whether you're technical or non-technical, whether you write SQL or just ask questions in plain English, you should have the same access to insights.
We're not promising perfection. No v1 ever is. But we're promising something better: an honest product built to eliminate friction between you and the decisions you need to make.
Ready to Try v1?
Login to Glow Reports and experience the difference. If you have existing datasources, there's one simple step: retry processing them with our new format. It's straightforward. Once done, create an insight, generate a report, and let our AI do the thinking.
We're Listening
Your feedback shapes what comes next. Reply here, email us, or reach out directly, we read everything. What's working? What's broken? What are we missing?
Tell us. The next version of Glow Reports will be built on what you tell us today.
El Mehdi Benane
Founder, Glow Reports
My vision is simple: Make analytics accessible to everyone. Whether you're technical or not, you should be able to extract value from data, expand your knowledge, and make faster decisions backed by insights. That's what we're building.
