# Silicon for Business Teams: Answers in Plain English

URL: https://meetsilicon.com/solutions/business-teams/

> Ask questions about your business in plain English, in Slack or Silicon, and see how every number is defined.

Solutions / Business teams
# Ask in plain English and see where the answer comes from
Ask Silicon the way you would ask a colleague on the data team. You get a chart and a short note on how that number is defined.
Talk to Sujay
30-minute call with the founder
Works with the stack you already run.
dbt
Snowflake
BigQuery
Databricks
Redshift
Postgres
ClickHouse
GitHub
Slack
dbt
Snowflake
BigQuery
Databricks
Redshift
Postgres
ClickHouse
GitHub
Slack
dbt
Snowflake
BigQuery
Databricks
Redshift
Postgres
ClickHouse
GitHub
Slack
Problem
## Sound familiar?
- 01 Waiting days in the data team's queue for a simple number.
- 02 Two dashboards showing different revenue for the same month.
- 03 Not knowing whether a number is safe to put in a board deck.
Features
## What changes with Silicon
01
### Answers in Slack
Ask in any channel and get the answer in the thread, with a chart you can share.
AI analyst -> 02
### One definition per metric
Every team works from the same metric definitions, so finance and product report revenue the same way.
Semantic layer -> 03
### Reports that arrive on time
Get the dashboards you check every week delivered to Slack or email, with alerts when a number moves.
Dashboards & reports ->
How it works
## A day with Silicon
- 08:00 Monday pipeline report arrives in email.
- 10:20 Asks "Which regions missed target last month?" in Slack.
- 10:21 Gets a chart and the definition of "target" used.
- 14:00 Adds the chart to the board deck, with its definition noted.
FAQ
## Questions, answered
### Do I need to know SQL? +
No. Ask in plain English. The SQL is shown for anyone who wants to check it.
### We don't have a data team. Can we still use Silicon? +
Yes. When we partner with you, we build and maintain your data foundation and key metrics on Silicon, so your business teams can start asking questions in weeks.
### Can I see data I shouldn't? +
No. Answers respect the same permissions as your dashboards.
### What if the answer looks wrong? +
Every answer shows the metric definitions and filters it used, so you can see exactly what was counted, and flag it to your data team.
## Silicon for other roles
- Data engineers ->
- Analytics engineers ->
- Data analysts ->
- Growth & product ->
## Tell us where your data lives today.
Book 30 minutes with the founder. Tell us where your data is today, and see Silicon running on sample data.
Talk to Sujay
30-minute call with the founder