Analyze & Visualize
Apps, artifacts, and expert playbooks, the surfaces where Sundial turns data into answers you can see.
Sundial doesn't just return numbers; it produces analyses and visualizations built with real analytical craft. This section covers the surfaces where that shows up: always-live Apps you build by asking, one-off Artifacts you snapshot and share, and the expert playbooks that give deep analyses their structure.
Which surface do I use?
| Surface | Best for | Who builds it |
|---|---|---|
| Apps / Dashboards | AI-native, always-live dashboards for the metrics, trends, expectations, and breakdowns you track regularly and return to | You, by asking the Analysis Agent |
| Artifacts | One-off reports and deep-dives you snapshot, share, or download | You, by asking the Analysis Agent |
| Playbooks | The methodology behind deep analyses, metric change, funnels, retention, behavior | Sundial and your data team |
How they fit together
A dashboard or App is where a question usually starts: you spot a spike or a dip in a core metric. From there you ask the Analysis Agent why, and a playbook gives that analysis a rigorous, repeatable structure instead of an improvised guess. The result (a report, a chart, or a live App) lands in your Library, ready to share.
The visualizations themselves range from time series with confidence bounds to cohort-retention grids and prevalence-versus-frequency behavioral charts, so the shape of the answer matches the shape of the question.