The IDE for
data work

Friday is the IDE for data work. Ask a question and Friday does the analysis: it looks at your actual data, writes and runs the queries, builds the charts and explains what it found. Every step stays visible, so you can check the work instead of trusting it.

Analysts, data scientists and anyone who needs answers from data, without juggling a SQL editor, spreadsheets, notebooks and slides to get them.

Your warehouse, your files and your inbox. Friday connects to popular data warehouses such as BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift and Postgres, to Google Drive (Docs and Sheets) and to Gmail. Using something else? Build your own connector, and Friday works with it like any other source.

Through context. Friday connects to the places your team already defines its data: dbt models and docs, semantic layers such as dbt Semantic Layer, Cube and LookML, data catalogs such as DataHub, Atlan and Unity Catalog, and the docs and wikis where metric definitions live, such as Notion and Confluence. It learns what your tables mean, how your metrics are calculated and which business rules apply, so its answers match how your company actually works. As you work, the definitions and findings you approve are saved as context too, so Friday gets sharper with every task.

Claude Code is a coding agent: it works in your codebase to build software. Friday is built for data work. It connects to your data, runs the analysis and lays out every step on a canvas so you can follow it. It also keeps the context data work depends on: your tables, metric definitions, business rules and past findings. All of it is saved in Fro, Friday’s format for data work, so the next question starts where the last one left off. Fro also makes the work shareable: send a .fro file and a teammate opens the same task, with its data, every step and the full context. No repo or terminal needed.

Codex is a coding agent: you hand it software tasks, it works through your repository and comes back with code changes to review. Friday works the same way, but for data. You hand it a question, and it inspects the actual data, writes and runs the queries, builds the charts and challenges its own reasoning before it answers. You review the result instead of a pull request: every number traces back to the query and data that produced it, and a task only counts as done when you accept it. Everything, including the context and every step, is saved in Fro, so you can pick the work up later or share it with a teammate.

It’s how you stay sane while AI does the work. Every piece of data work is a task, and each project has a board with four lanes: To do, In progress, Pending review and Done. At a glance you can see what Friday is working on, what’s waiting for your review and what’s finished, so nothing gets lost across many questions. A task only reaches Done when you accept the result, not just when Friday stops working. You stay in charge, and Friday does the heavy lifting.

Unlike coding work, data work isn’t a straight line. You explore, compare and try another angle until the answer holds up. The canvas is the map of that journey. Every query, chart and summary is a step, linked to the data it used, so you can see exactly how Friday got to an answer. Edit a step and Friday marks what depends on it for an update, or branch off to try an alternative without losing the original.

Yes. Every query is a step on the canvas, so you can read the exact SQL Friday ran.

Friday AI is a custom AI with built-in data analytics and data science skills and experience.

No. Your data, questions and results are never used to train AI.

Every connection is read-only: Friday can’t send mail, edit files or change tables. Data warehouses such as BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift and Postgres connect through your own login and permissions, so Friday only sees what you’re already allowed to see, and your warehouse credentials stay with you. Gmail and Google Drive use Google’s own sign-in, with read-only access you approve. Sign-in credentials are encrypted with Windows’ built-in protection. Disconnect any source at any time; signing out clears them all.

On your computer. Tasks, results and queries are saved on your machine, and queries on local data run there too. Friday’s service doesn’t store your conversations.

Saved work opens without internet. Asking Friday and running new analysis need a connection.

Friday Desktop is Windows only for now. Mac and Linux are on the way.

Now. Download Friday Desktop v0.2.0 for Windows and run the installer.