Integration · BI

Ward +
Power BI

Your Power BI data holds answers your team doesn’t have time to extract. Ward sits alongside Power BI. Your dashboards visualize. Ward detects and explains what changed. No dashboard login needed for your morning brief.

What’s hiding in your
Power BI data.

The problems are already in Power BI. Ward finds them and explains why.

Time to Insight
Push, not pull
Insight cards delivered without waiting for someone to look.
Anomaly Detection
Between-refresh coverage
Issues surfaced before the next scheduled Power BI review.
Decision Velocity
Cause analysis included
No drill-down investigation; cards carry root cause context.
Report Efficiency
Ad-hoc requests reduced
Proactive cards answer questions before analysts get asked.

Power BI data, married to
everything else.

Power BI is one signal. Ward combines it with weather, events, competitor pricing, and more.

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Acme Retail @Merchandising: VP Analyst claude-sonnet default
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Chat

Ask anything. Ward routes to the right agent and returns cited answers.

Why did Store 37 miss target last week?
You · 9:42 AM
Schema Scout · routed to Merchandising Agent

I pulled Store 37’s last 28 days against the chain baseline. Two root causes, both compounding.

SignalFinding
labor_efficiencyRev/labor-hour −22% vs. cluster, staffing mismatch at 11a–1p peak
inventory.freshFresh fill 83%, backroom replenishment lag at 2–4p
promo.liftBOGO crackers cannibalized Brand Y by 28%, net category +6%

Recommend: re-baseline Store 37 schedule against true peak, raise replen window to 1p, and review the BOGO before next cycle.

8 parallel queries 3 sources cited confidence 0.92
Show me how to fix the staffing mismatch.
You · 9:43 AM
Labor Agent · drafting schedule diff
Querying labor_scheduling
Ask anything, Ward routes to the right agent. Cmd+K

Dashboards

Pinned views built from saved data-lake queries.

Revenue vs. forecast +4.2% WoW
Gross margin % −3.2pp
Fill rate, fresh 83%
Shrink, West region +0.8pp

Models

Browse, search, and manage data–lake model definitions for your tenant.

NameNamespaceVersion
retail_pos_transactionsretail1.0
retail_inventory_snapshotretail1.2
retail_labor_schedulingretail1.0
retail_promo_calendarretail1.1
retail_supplier_performanceretail1.0
sap_inventory_shrinkagesap1.0
ga4_daily_eventsmarketing1.0
meta_ads_ad_levelmarketing1.0

Sources

Connect external systems to the data lake.

NameTypeLast sync
sap_pos_transactionsimport2m ago
sap_inventory_shrinkageimport2m ago
sap_labor_schedulingimport14m ago
retail_inventory_weeklyimport1h ago
retail_google_ads_dailyimport1h ago
retail_meta_ads_dailyimport1h ago
retail_ga4_website_dailyimport1h ago

Architecture

Two ways to connect. Federate against your live systems, or ingest into Ward’s data lake. Toggle below.

Your systems · read-only
SAP Retail
Snowflake
BigQuery
Shopify
Toast POS
Ward Gateway
TLS 1.3 · AES-256
Querying live · data stays put
Federated answers
SELECT * FROM sap.pos
JOIN snow.inventory
WHERE store_id = 37
→ insight cards
Ward Data Lake
→ baselined per store
TLS 1.3 in transit AES-256 at rest Read-only credentials SOC 2 II in progress VPC peering · PrivateLink

Pipelines

Move data from sources into models on a schedule.

NameSourceModelStatusSchedule
sync_sap_pos_transactionssap_pos_transactionspos_transactionsenabledhourly
sync_sap_labor_schedulingsap_labor_schedulinglabor_schedulingenableddaily
sync_sap_inventory_shrinkagesap_inventory_shrinkageinventory_shrinkageenableddaily
sync_retail_inventory_weeklyretail_inventory_weeklyinventory_weeklyenabledweekly
sync_retail_google_ads_dailyretail_google_ads_dailygoogle_ads_dailyenableddaily
sync_retail_ga4_website_dailyretail_ga4_website_dailyga4_website_dailyenableddaily

Streams

Real-time ingestion pipelines.

0events / min
0streams active
0% delivered
  • pos.txn store_037, basket $42.18
  • inv.move dc_west → store_104
  • labor.clock store_022 shift_start
  • pos.txn store_211, basket $19.04

Policies

Browse and manage Cedar access policies for your tenant.

TLS 1.3 AES-256 Read-only SOC 2 II
Policy IDEffectResources
merch-read-defaultpermitModel::*
finance-read-shrinkagepermitModel::"shrinkage"
vendor-blockedforbidModel::"labor_*"
region-west-onlypermitTenant::"acme"

Entities

Principals and resources referenced by Cedar policies.

Entity UIDTypeTenant
Tenant::"acme"Tenantacme
Model::"sap.pos_transactions"Modelacme
Model::"sap.inventory_shrinkage"Modelacme
Model::"sap.labor_scheduling"Modelacme
Model::"retail.toast_pos_daily"Modelacme
Model::"retail.ga4_website_daily"Modelacme

Providers

Manage LLM API keys and the model profiles that use them.

API Keys Model Profiles
NameProviderUsed byCreated
anthropic-defaultAnthropic3 profilesApr 22
openai-defaultOpenAI2 profilesApr 22
gemini-defaultGemini1 profileApr 22
ollama-onpremOllama2 profilesApr 22

LLM-agnostic. Bring your own key, route per task. No lock-in.

Settings

Manage your dashboard preferences and account.

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Account
NameAdmin
Emailadmin@acme.io
Tenantacme-retail
Ward + Power BI, live analysis against your data.
BI · Primary
Microsoft Power BI
Power BI REST API datasets · Underlying SQL/Azure data · Dataflow outputs
Looker
BI
Tableau
BI
Ward
Data Lake
Enrichment Data
Power BI datasets
Underlying SQL/Azure data
Weather & events
Demographics
Custom feeds
Power BI (primary)
BI peers
Enrichment data
Real-time data flow

Data Ward reads
from Power BI.

Power BI REST API datasets Underlying SQL/Azure data Dataflow outputs

Ward connects to the same data sources Power BI uses. Or reads Power BI datasets via REST API. Your reports stay untouched.

01 / Connect
Read Power BI

Read-only access to Power BI. No changes to your configuration.

02 / Combine
Join the lake

Power BI data married to weather, events, and competitor pricing.

03 / Detect
Find the why

Anomalies surfaced continuously, each with a root cause attached.

04 / Deliver
Morning brief

Findings arrive before your team logs in, not in a quarterly review.

Your Power BI data holds answers your team doesn’t have time to extract. Ward reads it continuously and explains why.

Your Power BI today
Problems hide in Power BI until someone has time to look.
  • ×Anomalies found manually, if at all
  • ×Dashboards show what happened, not why
  • ×No one watching between scheduled reviews
With Ward + Power BI
Ward reads Power BI continuously. Findings arrive with root causes.
  • Anomalies detected and explained automatically
  • Root cause analysis, not just an alert
  • Morning brief before your team logs in

Playbooks that replace your Power BI dashboards.

These don't stop at a chart. Each pairs the data insight with the automation and write-back to act on it, no ticket, no analyst queue.

Finance

Vendor invoice dispute
Invoice ≠ receipt or contract price. Ward drafts the dispute packet and routes to AP with the evidence chain.
All retailSAP · Coupa · Oracle Financials · NetSuiteCOGS recovery
Margin leakage audit
Margin is bleeding across categories. Ward decomposes the leak and ranks the recoverable dollars.
All retailSAP · Snowflake · BigQueryGross margin
Markdown stop-loss
Markdowns are running past the point of recovery. Ward caps the bleed and proposes the floor.
Fashion · SpecialtyPricing engine · POSMargin
Compute spend governance
AI spend climbing by team. Ward caps it per department and routes to the cheapest model that clears the bar.
All retailWard routing layerAI cost / department
Freight & accessorial audit
Freight and accessorial charges off-contract. Ward reconciles and flags the recoverable spend.
All retailSAP · CoupaCOGS recovery

IT & Data

Integration health monitor
A feed goes stale or a connector breaks. Ward catches the gap before the numbers go wrong.
All retailSnowflake · BigQuery · SAP connectorsData freshness
Access & audit review
Access is drifting from least-privilege. Ward reviews scopes and streams the diffs to your SIEM.
All retailCedar policies · SIEMAudit coverage
Model routing guardrail
Queries over-spending on premium models. Ward routes each to the cheapest model that clears the bar.
All retailWard routing layer · BYO-LLMCost per query
Data quality watch
Upstream data quality is slipping. Ward flags nulls, dupes, and drift before they reach a decision.
All retailSnowflake · BigQueryData accuracy
PII & residency guard
Sensitive data is crossing a boundary it shouldn't. Ward enforces residency and read-only scope.
All retailCedar policies · SIEMCompliance coverage
Ward
Insight
Dispatch
Feedback
Evaluate
Learn
01

Insights surface

Ward’s agents detect what changed, why it matters, and what to do about it. Every insight includes a recommended action. Not just a chart to interpret.

Real-time detection Root cause + recommendation
02

Insights become actions

Any insight card can be turned into a tracked ticket or task. Dispatched to the right person, on the right channel: mobile push, text, or email. Not every insight needs a ticket. When one does, it has an owner.

Tickets created automatically Dispatched to the right person
03

Your team responds

Insights get voted up or down with reasoning. Tickets get completed or rejected. Every response is a signal. Ward learns what worked, what missed, and why.

Vote up / down Ticket completed Reasoning attached
04

Outcomes measured

Ward evaluates real results: revenue, margin, fill rate, labor cost. Did the action actually improve the number it targeted? Measured outcomes, not assumptions.

KPI impact tracked Results vs. prediction scored
05

Agents get sharper

Every vote, every completed ticket, every measured outcome feeds back in. Ward learns from your team’s judgment and real-world results. Each cycle sharpens the next. Then it starts again.

Cycle repeats, sharper each time
$1.8T
Projected global AI market by 2030
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Customer acquisition lift for data‑driven orgs
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Foundation models shipped since 2022
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Guarantees any single model stays on top

Your Power BI data holds answers nobody has time to find.

Ward reads it continuously and delivers what it finds. With root causes.

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