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Adea watches your company’s numbers, straight from your own database and code. It checks every number against what is normal for it, tells you when one moves and finds out why. What it finds becomes lists your team works through. You can also ask it questions in plain words.

Adea only reads. It never writes to your database, your code or anything else you connect.

What you need

• A database. Adea works with PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Amazon Redshift, BigQuery and Snowflake. The integrations page shows everything you can connect.
• A user that can only read. If you don’t run the database yourself, send the person who does the developer link. They connect it without an account.
• About five minutes. That is how long connecting a database takes when the read-only user already exists.

You don’t need a card to start on the Free plan. The trial gives you 14 days of Pro, with a card.

The four steps

1. Create your company. Sign up with your work email. Your company gets its own address, such as your-company.adea.app. You sign in there and your AI assistants connect there.
2. Connect a source. Add a database with a read-only user. Adea tests the connection step by step: it reaches the database, signs in, checks that the user can only read, and reads the list of tables. Each step turns green, or says what to fix. See Connect a database.
3. Let Adea get to know it. Adea studies your tables and writes down in plain words what it understood: what a booking is, what counts as an active member, which column holds the date. Read it, and correct anything it got wrong. Adea uses these notes in every answer.
4. Ask, and watch. Ask your first question, and pick the numbers you want Adea to keep an eye on. See Ask a question and Watch your numbers.

What Adea does with your data

Adea reads what a question needs, works out the answer and drops the rows. It does not keep a copy of your database. Every query passes a check that allows one read and nothing else, and Guardian looks at every pull of data. Read more in Guardian and security.

Adea reaches your database from fixed addresses, which you allow in your firewall. Adea shows them when you add the database. Connect a database explains where they go.

Where to go next

• Connect a database: the read-only user for each kind of database
• Connect your code: see which change moved a number
• Use Adea from your AI assistant: Claude, ChatGPT, Grok and Cursor
• Credits and plans: what each plan includes