Why is business data still so hard to act on in 2025?
We've all been there — drowning in dashboards, buried in Notion docs, pinged in Slack threads, and still… no clarity. As someone who's spent years working in ops and product, I'm constantly surprised at how hard it is to get a clean, real-time picture of what's actually going on in the business.
Why do we still need 4 tools and 5 people to answer simple questions like “What’s driving churn?” or “Are we hitting our sales targets?”
Curious how others are thinking about this. If you're an operator, PM, or founder — how are you solving this internally? Have you found workarounds or is it still duct tape + gut feeling?
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The duct tape and gut feeling comment really hit home. Until tools evolve to understand business logic natively, this problem won’t truly go away.
@masako_peno Totally ! That's exactly what our research shows us. This is what prompted me to start @ Corpus Insight https://www.producthunt.com/products/corpus-insight. Unifying and building context around the data from different systems was a challenge on it's own, but adding the ability to understand the underlying business logic to stitch it together is where the real value lies imo.
It's a difficult problem, but we're taking small (humble) steps to solve it :)
Man... multiple tools, siloed data, Sherlock Holmes level of detective work, and crossing your fingers that you were able to make heads or tails out of what's going on... this makes it very difficult to be a data-driven founder. You're not sure where that data is actually driving you.
With all of the different tools, needing to switch between platforms, and creating different dashboards... we're often creating self-imposed blind spots.
@bryce_york_ag Preach ! Can totally relate. I find that the more I invest in tools to help me figure out what's going on in the business, the less I actually know. It's counterintuitive. I couldn't find one tool to unify and give me contextual answers on my business data. This is what prompted me to start a venture in this space as I realized everyone faces the same problem.
Check us out if you're feeling this pain - https://www.corpusinsight.com/ . Would love your thoughts !
@smurthy_123 Looks great. It looks like your tool takes a broad view of all things in the business, ties them together into one master resource, and uses automation and AI to streamline decision making. Am I on the right track?
@bryce_york_ag That's essentially right ! In addition, folks can customize what they want to see and take action like create reports, presentation or dashboards real time using the unified data, with the help of AI agents.
I'm genuinely passionate about this problem, so if you want to chat more, I'd be happy to ! or if you want to try it yourself -> I can send over a link !
Do please join the waitlist and we'd love to work with you as an early design partner if you're interested :) - https://www.corpusinsight.com/early-access
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In my experience, even with tons of data and tools, getting true clarity often comes down to two things: data fragmentation and lack of aligned metrics. We’ve tried to centralize key dashboards in one BI tool, but inevitably, some teams rely on their own spreadsheets, so it’s easy for information to get out of sync.