From 4-hour reporting cycles to answers in 8 minutes
Every Monday, the ops lead needed return rate by SKU, revenue by channel, and inventory sell-through for the weekly review. Getting those numbers meant filing a Jira ticket, waiting 2–3 days for an analyst, and receiving a CSV that was already stale by the time it arrived.
Connected their Neon PostgreSQL in 90 seconds. First query asked:
Which products had the highest return rate last quarter?The full Monday report — five questions that used to take days — now runs in 8 minutes before the team standup.
I used to dread Mondays because I'd spend the first hour chasing the analyst for numbers I needed yesterday. Now I pull them myself before my coffee gets cold. I don't even think of it as 'querying the database' — I just ask a question.