Strata Business Intelligence, LLC
Strata Business Intelligence builds a semantic-layer-based business intelligence platform for non-technical business users and AI agents. It turns warehouse data into governed, self-service analytics with correct-by-construction queries, without requiring SQL or data-team tickets.
At a Glance
- Business and operations teams that need broad self-service analytics
- Data and analytics engineering teams managing governed warehouse models
- Enterprises that need row-level security, airgapped deployment or self-hosting
- Developers building AI agents, embedded analytics and custom data applications
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0sql
Open Source Semantic Layer SQL Planner
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Latest News
A semantic layer for Redash: Strata announced/focused on integrating 0sql's semantic queries and row-level security with Redash.
0sql is Open Source Now: the planner, 13 SQL dialects, zsql CLI and server were released under the MIT license.
0sql zsql 0.6.0 release: CLI/server consolidation and public-ready repository release.
0sql Launched: Strata's semantic layer became available as a standalone service for custom analytics apps and agents.
Products & Services
Hosted or self-hosted business intelligence and semantic-layer platform. It lets non-technical users explore governed warehouse data, build dashboards, compare and blend measures safely, deliver results to Google Sheets, and expose the model to agents through API/MCP interfaces.
Standalone open-source semantic layer that accepts business-level query specifications and returns deterministic SQL or a refusal. It does not connect to or execute against the warehouse; it supports the zsql CLI/server, agent workflows and custom data applications.
Open-source lightweight data-warehouse adapter library with a unified interface, SQL function translation, connection pooling and metadata support across multiple database systems.
Market Position
Strata positions itself as a semantic layer built for the people asking questions rather than only for data modelers: it combines self-service BI, an agent-native query interface and grain-safe cross-domain blending. Its own materials contrast it with Power BI, Tableau and Looker plus AI chat, and its 0sql materials compare the product with Cube and MetricFlow, emphasizing broader measure expressiveness, automatic multi-fact blending, semantic routing, row-level security and refusal of unresolvable requests rather than returning plausible but incorrect SQL.
Leadership
Founders
Ajo Abraham
Founder and CEO. Abraham spent eight years at Netflix, where he built a BI tool with a semantic layer that was deployed in production for multiple internal projects; he describes Strata as his third attempt at building a semantic layer and says he previously founded companies.
Executive Team
Ajo Abraham
Founder and CEO
Former Netflix engineer and semantic-layer/BI builder; he spent eight years at Netflix and built an internal BI tool that reached production.
Allen Jiji
Senior Software Engineer
Listed as a member of Strata Business Intelligence's management team and as the author of the Strata post describing the semantic layer for Redash.
Founding Story
Ajo Abraham left Netflix in 2025 after using his final two-and-a-half years there to develop a semantic-layer BI product for self-service analytics. He started Strata to build a B2B business around the idea that business users should be able to explore broad, governed data without the implementation and maintenance burden of traditional tools such as Looker, MicroStrategy and Tableau. The initial plan was to form an LLC and delay outside funding until product-market fit was clearer.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Strata sells annual-billed subscriptions to its hosted BI platform by edition and user/developer seats, with an Enterprise option for custom cloud or self-hosted deployments. The standalone 0sql project is currently free and open source under MIT; its launch post says pricing has not yet been determined.
Pricing Tiers
Includes 25 users and 1 developer; 2 data sources per project; additional users are $3/user/month and developers $29/developer/month.
Includes 100 users and 3 developers; unlimited data sources per project and row-level security; additional users are $6/user/month and developers $99/developer/month.
Cloud or self-hosted; includes Team features plus airgapped deployment and custom seats and support.
Target Markets
- Business and operations teams that need broad self-service analytics
- Data and analytics engineering teams managing governed warehouse models
- Enterprises that need row-level security, airgapped deployment or self-hosting
- Developers building AI agents, embedded analytics and custom data applications
- Organizations using warehouses and OLAP engines including Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, Athena, Postgres, MySQL, ClickHouse, Druid and Trino
- Self-service analytics for non-technical business users
- Replacing recurring data-team tickets with governed exploration
- Cross-domain reporting such as revenue beside CRM tickets or churn against prior periods
- Natural-language and agent-driven analytics over governed semantic models
- Embedding conversational analytics, dashboards, incident investigation or alert loops in custom applications
- Serving hot, warm and cold warehouse/OLAP tiers through one semantic layer
- An unnamed customer-service organization with 800 non-technical users; the Strata case study reports weekly self-service users rising from five to hundreds and ad hoc requests falling 90%.