NousViz Seed Round

The open-source business brain.

Every dataset you run your company on — connected, visualized, and reasoned over by AI. On your infrastructure, not ours.

Raising$3M Seed
Valuation$15M
StageSigned customers, revenue starting
01 — The problem 02 / 13

Your data is everywhere. Your insight is nowhere.

  • ×The average operator runs the business across 20–40 tools — ads, analytics, finance, support, comms.
  • ×Every answer means exporting CSVs and rebuilding the same chart week after week.
  • ×BI tools that could fix it are expensive, closed, and hold your data hostage.
Google Analytics Voluum QuickBooks Search Console Facebook Ads Slack Jira Intercom Instantly.ai Gmail Calendly read.ai
02 — Origin 03 / 13

We built NousViz by accident.

While building advanced analytics for StatsDrone, our customers kept asking for the same thing — and we realized we'd built something far bigger than a feature.

01
It started as a feature

Affiliates needed Search Console, GA, Voluum, Keitaro and Facebook Ads in one place to run their business.

02
Then they wanted everything

QuickBooks, Slack, Intercom, Gmail, Jira, read.ai, Calendly — every system they touched, modeled together.

03
At conferences, they named it: "my business brain"

When we said it was open source, eyes lit up — their most important data never has to leave their server.

03 — The product 04 / 13

Every dataset you run your business on, in one place.

Pre-built connectors normalize any source into one queryable layer — then chart, dashboard, and share in minutes.

Google Search ConsoleSEO
Google AnalyticsAnalytics
VoluumTracking
KeitaroTracking
Facebook AdsPaid
QuickBooksFinance
SlackComms
IntercomSupport
GmailComms
JiraProduct
read.aiMeetings
+ 1000s morePlugin SDK
04 — Agents & MCP 05 / 13

Not just charts — a brain that reasons over your data.

Ask in plain language

Agents query every connected source, build the visualization, and explain what changed.

MCP-native

Expose your whole data layer to Claude or any MCP client — your tools become the agent's tools.

Runs on autopilot

Anomaly alerts, scheduled reports, and analysis that ships itself — no analyst in the loop.

nousviz · agent
You Why did blended CAC jump last week?
NousViz Agent Joined Facebook Ads spend with Voluum conversions and QuickBooks revenue. CAC rose 31% — one campaign drove 80% of new spend at 2.4× your blended cost.
05 — Open source 06 / 13

Your most important data never leaves your server.

  • Open-core & self-hostable. Run the whole stack on your own infrastructure.
  • Zero vendor lock-in. Own every layer — engine, connectors, dashboards.
  • The trust wedge. The moment we say "open source," the room changes — finance, legal, and security stop objecting.
your-infrastructure.local
Where your data livesYour server
NousViz access to itNone
Source codeOpen-core
Connectors & agentsYours to extend
06 — Market 07 / 13

If you run a business, you need this.

BI is a large, growing market still dominated by closed, expensive incumbents. Open source plus AI agents opens a new entry point into all of it.

Figures are directional — replace with sourced research before sending.

$38B
TAMGlobal business intelligence & analytics software
$11B
SAMSelf-serve data viz for SMBs, agencies & operators
$600M
SOMOpen-source-first teams & data-sensitive enterprise (3-yr)
07 — Landscape 08 / 13

How we stack up.

NousViz Tableau Power BI Looker Studio
Open source & self-hostable Yes No No No
Data stays on your servers Yes No No No
Data ownership Your infrastructure Vendor-controlled Vendor-controlled Vendor-controlled
Marketing & ops connectors built-in 1000s+ Add-ons Partial Google only
AI agents, MCP-native Native Copilot add-on
Time to first dashboard ~5 min Days Days Hours
Pricing Free core $$$$ $$$ Free · locked-in
08 — Traction 09 / 13
$600K
ARR at StatsDrone

A 12-person business with $600K ARR is NousViz's first customer, proving ground, and growth engine — we're using it to make StatsDrone worth more.

Signed
WorldGaming partnership

A closed deal that includes NousViz for their data visualization — our first named customer beyond StatsDrone.

Pipeline
Enterprises want us to build for them

A lineup of companies asking us to build their analytics tools — several want our hosted solution too.

Signal
"This is my business brain"

The unprompted reaction at conferences — and "it's open source" is what closes the room.

09 — Business model 10 / 13

Open core, enterprise upside.

01
Open Core
Free · adoption

Open-core, self-hosted. Free forever — the top of the funnel and the trust that wins data-sensitive buyers.

CommunityPlugins
02
NousViz Cloud
Hosted · recurring

Managed hosting, scaling, and support for teams that don't want to self-host. Predictable subscription revenue.

Per-seatUsage
03
Enterprise
Build · high ACV

Custom analytics builds, private connectors, SLAs and support. Demand is already inbound — the near-term revenue driver.

ContractsPipeline now
10 — Team 11 / 13
John Wright
John Wright
Co-founder & CEO

Co-founder of StatsDrone. Built the analytics that became NousViz.

LinkedIn/in/alwayslookright WhatsApp+1 438 580 8514 Telegram@alwayslookright Emailjohn@nousviz.com
Darrell Helyar
Darrell Helyar
Co-founder & COO

Runs operations. No-nonsense, execution-first — the one who turns plans into shipped work.

LinkedIn/in/darrellhelyar WhatsApp+1 514 883 0093 Telegram@darrell_statsdrone

We're not hiring a team. We already have one.

12
StatsDrone operators already building NousViz
14
People shipping from day one

StatsDrone's $600K ARR and $1.25M already raised fund the runway and the talent. The seed accelerates a team that's already proven it can ship.

11 — The ask 12 / 13
$3M

Seed round on a $15M valuation.

Runway24 months
Backed by$600K ARR · $1.25M raised
Use of funds
Go-to-marketEnterprise sales, partnerships, category creation 40%
Engineering & productMore connectors, agent depth, NousViz Cloud 40%
Community & open sourceDocs, plugin SDK, contributor ecosystem 20%
NousViz 12 — Vision

Let's build the business brain.

An accident at StatsDrone is becoming the open standard for how companies see — and reason about — their data. Come build the category with us.

Contact John Wright · john@nousviz.com