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1. Technology overview
Cube (Cube Dev) is a US company headquartered in San Francisco, California, building an agentic analytics platform centered on a semantic layer that acts as a single source of truth for business metrics, available as the open-source Cube Core project and the managed Cube Cloud service.
The semantic layer defines metrics once and serves them consistently to dashboards, embedded analytics, SQL workbooks and AI agents via an MCP server, with caching and pre-aggregation for sub-second responses. Companies such as Brex, Wix and Walmart use it to avoid duplicating query logic across BI tools and applications.
2. Highlighted features & specifications
1. Semantic layer: defines metrics once for consistent reuse across tools.
2. Analytics Chat: natural-language queries answered against the semantic model.
3. Embedded analytics: multi-tenant analytics for integration into products.
4. Workbooks: SQL editor with visual and AI-assisted query building.
5. AI integrations: MCP server connects the semantic layer to Claude, ChatGPT and other agents.
6. Performance caching: pre-aggregation delivers sub-second dashboard responses.
