Hi HN! We're FactIQ - an AI driven data explorer for the US economy.

Datasets: BLS, EIA, BTS, Census EITS, and more

What FactIQ is - data analysis tool for 7M+ economic data series

- meant for folks who need quick access to reliable economic statistics and contextual analysis

- emphasis on data traceability and citations

For reference, here is a quick FactIQ analysis that compares how sources of electricity in the US and China changed over time: https://www.factiq.com/share/7c0bf9a6d8304c01849af763f39362e...

Why we built it

- we worked on Defog.ai for 3 years, selling fine-tuned AI data analysts to large enterprises based on our open-source text to SQL models

- saw non-trivial usage and adoption, but it became more of a consulting company instead of a scalable product, because we needed to spend a lot of time gathering context and understanding DB schemas for each customer

- decided it was a better bet to build something which was widely useful and where we could design and control the database schema to make it more AI friendly

- saw how broken the current state of economic data discovery was, and decided to fix it

Technical Details - we get large data dumps from government agencies, standardize them into a common internal schema, use LLMs to extract metadata and enrich the data, and create embeddings to make it searchable

- when users ask questions, we do an embeddings-based search (to discover relevant data series) along with an agentic analysis pipeline for actually answering questions

What's next - More comprehensive data about the US economy

- Adding data for China, India, and the EU

What we're looking for - Ask complex questions, and give us feedback on what we can improve

- If you work regularly with economic data, tell us what your workflow needs are

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