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Savant Labs: Democratizing Analytics for the Modern Enterprise

In a world awash with data, the real power lies in turning that information into insights—fast.

Nowhere is this more urgent than in the office of the CFO, where decisions must be both precise and timely. Yet, as the demand for automated, intelligent analytics soars, a critical shortage of skilled technical professionals threatens to slow progress.

Enter Savant Labs—a generative AI-powered analytics automation platform co-founded by Chitrang Shah, Matt Mesher, and other former leaders from Lattice Engines.

Born from the need to close this gap, Savant Labs is reimagining how enterprises unlock value from their data. With scalable, secure, and intuitive tools, the company is quickly becoming a catalyst for a new era of decision-making—where analytics is no longer a bottleneck, but a built-in advantage.

The Analytics Supply-Demand Imbalance

At the core of Savant Labs’ inception lies a fundamental observation: while businesses are generating data at an unprecedented pace, the technical expertise required to analyze and automate insights has not kept up. Shah, Co-Founder and CEO, explains the critical nature of this gap:

“There is an incredible mismatch between what I call the supply and demand for analytics, especially in the office of the CFO,” he says. “There are about three million data engineers who can program and build analytics, yet there are 60 million business analysts who are data-savvy but not programmers. That’s the problem we’re solving.”

Business analysts—deeply familiar with the operational side of their organizations—are typically proficient in data handling but lack the programming skills to build and scale automation. As a result, they’re often stuck in repetitive tasks, regenerating the same reports day after day. Enterprises are essentially left with an army of capable professionals unable to scale their impact due to technological barriers. This structural issue not only leads to inefficiencies but also throttles the ability of organizations to become truly data-driven.

A Market Ready For Disruption

The problem is hardly new. Earlier analytics tools like Alteryx and Excel helped popularize the idea that business analysts could take ownership of data workflows. But as Shah and Mesher observed, these platforms remain largely unmanaged, on-premise, expensive to scale, and cumbersome to use. Many workflows are still heavily reliant on spreadsheets, leading to data inaccuracies and compliance risks. These limitations crystallize around three major pain points: cost, governance, and usability. 

Legacy pricing models, based on per-user licensing, are incompatible with scaling. If a Fortune 500 company wants to expand access to analytics across departments, the cost multiplies linearly with each new user—making broader adoption financially impractical.

Additionally, governance suffers. Sensitive business data and processing logic often reside on individual laptops, making compliance and oversight nearly impossible.

Most crucially, the usability gap persists. Despite being designed for non-programmers, previous-generation tools lacked modern analytics features, required weeks of training, and still saw adoption rates hovering around 20–30 percent.

Savant Labs recognized that a fundamental shift was required—one that would not merely upgrade existing capabilities, but reimagine analytics automation from the ground up using generative AI.

Cloud and AI-Native By Design

Savant Labs is not merely cloud-based; it is cloud- and AI-native—a distinction deeply embedded in the platform’s DNA. It natively connects to a wide range of data sources—from data warehouses and business applications to SharePoint and OneDrive. Importantly, data doesn’t need to be downloaded or moved. Instead, it is processed within the customer’s own virtual private cloud (VPC), ensuring maximum security and compliance.

This architecture allows organizations to retain full control over their data and processes. They can enforce security standards, maintain compliance, review and audit work, and dramatically reduce operational risk. From centralized visibility into data access to granular control over user actions, the platform addresses the most pressing concerns enterprises face in analytics management.

In The Words Of Mesher, Co-Founder And Head Of Product:

“The thing we’re most focused on is giving superpowers to business analysts. Technologies have gotten more powerful, but never easier to use. We’re changing that—all with centralized governance and oversight.”

Governance That Empowers, Not Restricts

Savant Labs embraces transparency and auditability with an enterprise-ready governance model that is both intuitive and robust. The platform supports Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) for analytics workflows, allowing organizations to enforce standardization across reports and metrics. This is particularly critical in large enterprises where various teams might calculate KPIs like revenue differently, creating confusion and misalignment.

The governance system is further enhanced by workflow approval mechanisms. Business analysts can build and prototype reports independently, but any workflow to be published or integrated into business processes must receive approval from a central team. This ensures consistency, accuracy, and alignment with enterprise-wide data standards.

Auditing—a traditional pain point for enterprises—is seamlessly integrated. Every report, from data ingestion to final output, is logged and time-stamped. Auditors can access a complete historical trail for any metric, with immutable records that demonstrate compliance and reproducibility.

Usability Meets Automation

Perhaps Savant Labs’ most groundbreaking achievement lies in its approach to usability. While the back-end architecture is sophisticated and cutting-edge, the front-end experience is refreshingly intuitive. With a familiar, spreadsheet-like interface augmented by generative AI and analytics agents, analysts can construct and automate complex workflows without writing a single line of code.

Mesher’s personal journey reinforces this design philosophy. Having spent his career in analytics, he understands firsthand how powerful tools often fail due to inaccessibility. He recalls an early experience working with the National Governors Association, where his team took six months to produce a job growth analysis for every U.S. county—not due to a lack of talent, but because of clunky tools and inefficient processes. With Savant, those same workflows can now be automated in a matter of days.

The platform empowers analysts to focus on high-value work rather than rote repetition. It replaces error-prone Excel macros and sluggish desktop processes with intelligent automation, dramatically reducing time to insight and increasing reliability.

A Pricing Model Aligned With Value

One of the most innovative aspects of Savant Labs’ offering is its pricing model. Unlike legacy platforms that charge per user, Savant uses a consumption-based model. Enterprises are billed only when a workflow is executed or a report is generated. This aligns cost directly with value, allowing organizations to scale usage without financial friction.

This model is particularly attractive to large enterprises. Fortune 500 clients typically realize a reduction in total cost of ownership by over 50 percent simply by shifting from seat-based to consumption-based licensing. It encourages broader adoption while remaining financially sustainable—a rare feat in enterprise software.

Case In Point: Zynex Medical

Zynex Medical, a publicly traded company specializing in pain management devices, faced significant roadblocks with their legacy solutions—until they partnered with Savant Labs.

Before Savant, Zynex relied on well-known legacy tools like Alteryx and Excel to address reporting and data needs across finance, supply chain, and business units. While Alteryx initially served its purpose, it quickly became clear the tool couldn’t scale with Zynex’s evolving demands. When Zynex adopted Savant Labs, the transformation was immediate and impactful. Within just four weeks, over 20 users—primarily from finance, supply chain, operations, and analytics—were successfully onboarded. Unlike their previous experience, scaling access came at no additional cost. 

One of Savant Labs’ standout features is its intuitive user interface, designed for Excel-savvy professionals. Users didn’t need to learn a new programming language or master a complex toolset. Instead, they could type their data questions in natural language, and Savant’s generative AI engine translated them into actionable formulas and logic. Even users unfamiliar with Excel formulas could explore data confidently and independently.

The results speak for themselves. In just three months, the value generated from Savant Labs had already paid for itself four times over. Zynex unlocked widespread data access, improved compliance, and reduced IT overhead—proving that a modern, intuitive platform can empower even the leanest teams to deliver enterprise-wide impact.

A Platform For The Future

By empowering business analysts, ensuring rigorous governance, and delivering enterprise-grade scalability, Savant Labs is effectively bridging the supply-demand divide in analytics. The platform serves as a force multiplier, enabling organizations to derive far greater value from their existing teams without requiring an army of data engineers.

Savant Labs provides the infrastructure to make a company’s aspiration to become data-driven a reality. Its generative AI engine doesn’t just make it easier to analyze data—it makes it possible for more people to do so effectively, securely, and at scale.

As Shah Succinctly Puts It:

“We empower business analysts to leverage generative AI, no-code tools, and centralized governance to automate analytics end to end. That’s how we’re reshaping the future of analytics, and that’s how modern analysts are transforming businesses.”

It’s safe to say that Savant Labs stands apart by offering a unified platform that is as powerful as it is practical. By staying rooted in the real-world challenges analysts face every day—and combining that empathy with cutting-edge technology—the company is not just building software; it’s building a movement.