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Ask your data anything.
Get a report worth sharing.

Grainstack connects to your existing business data and answers your questions in plain English — then hands those answers to BI Slate, which turns them into polished, board-ready PDF reports. No spreadsheets. No waiting.

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Ask in plain English — no training needed
Pixel-perfect PDF reports — board-ready in seconds
Your data stays yours — read-only, always
Web · WhatsApp · AI assistant

The reporting problem

Your data exists.
The answers don't.

Most businesses are sitting on a goldmine of information — sales figures, stock levels, customer patterns — locked inside systems that don't talk to each other and don't answer questions.

Getting a single number often means calling someone, waiting for a spreadsheet, or building a report by hand. By the time you have the answer, the decision has already been made.

Reports take days, not seconds

Someone has to pull the data, format it, check it, and send it — every single time.

Data lives in too many places

Your sales system, accounting software, and stock manager don't speak the same language.

Decisions wait for answers

When your manager asks "how did we do last month?" the answer shouldn't take a week.

Numbers without a story

Raw data in a spreadsheet doesn't tell a story — and it doesn't impress a board room.

How it works

From question to report
in four steps.

Grainstack sits between your data and your decisions. You ask a question in plain English. It finds the answer from your live business data. Then BI Slate takes over — composing that answer into a pixel-perfect PDF report, automatically.

Connect your data

Grainstack connects securely to your existing business systems — accounting, sales, stock. Nothing moves or migrates. Your data stays exactly where it is.

One-time setup

Ask in plain English

Type or message a question the way you'd ask a colleague — from your browser, WhatsApp, or your AI assistant. No technical knowledge needed.

Web · WhatsApp · AI

Grainstack finds the answer

Grainstack searches your live business data and returns the answer in seconds — numbers, trends, comparisons. Sourced directly. No waiting, no manual pulling.

Live data · seconds

BI Slate builds the report

BI Slate takes that answer and composes it into a polished, branded PDF report — correct layout, your logo, board-ready formatting. Download. Share. Present.

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See it in action

Ask your data — live
What were our top 5 products by revenue last quarter?
10:02
Here are your top 5 products for Q1 2026:

1. Pro Plan Annual — R 842,000
2. Enterprise Licence — R 614,500
3. Starter Monthly — R 391,200
4. Add-on: Analytics — R 188,700
5. One-time Setup — R 97,400

Combined: R 2,133,800 — up 18% on Q4 2025.
10:02
Which regions drove that growth?
10:03
Gauteng led at 44% of revenue. Western Cape grew fastest — up 31% quarter-on-quarter. KwaZulu-Natal recovered after the Q4 dip, now at 19%.
10:03
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Plain English in.
Real answers out.

No training. No technical skills. No waiting for someone from IT. Just ask your question — and get an answer pulled directly from your live business data.

When you're ready, one click hands everything to BI Slate to produce a report that looks like it was built by your best analyst.

Ask from anywhere

Web dashboard, WhatsApp, or AI assistant — same answers wherever you are.

Always live data

Every answer comes from your actual data at that moment — not a cached export from last Tuesday.

Ask follow-up questions

Grainstack remembers the conversation. Dig deeper without starting from scratch.

From answer to report

Board-ready reports.
Built automatically.

Once Grainstack has your answer, BI Slate takes over. It composes your data into a polished, pixel-perfect PDF — correct typography, your brand colours, aligned charts and tables. Every time.

No more reformatting in PowerPoint. No more chasing the right number. No more wondering if the layout will hold.

Your brand, always on

Reports carry your logo, colours, and typography — applied automatically to every page.

Reviewed before it leaves

Built-in approval flow lets the right person sign off before the report is distributed.

Secure, governed distribution

Share with the right people only — full audit trail of who received what and when.

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Grainstack.ai Intelligence
Q1 2026 · 31 March 2026
Quarterly Revenue Report
Top Products & Regional Breakdown
R 2.1M
Revenue
+18%
vs Q4 2025
5
Products
Gauteng
44%
W. Cape
37%
KZN
19%

Western Cape recorded the strongest quarter-on-quarter growth at +31%, driven by Enterprise Licence uptake. Gauteng remained the dominant revenue region. KwaZulu-Natal recovered from a Q4 dip and is trending upward heading into Q2.

Ask from anywhere

Your data answers
wherever you ask.

Grainstack works across three channels — so your team gets answers in the way that suits them, whether that's a browser, a WhatsApp message, or the AI assistant they already use every day.

Web dashboard

A clean, browser-based workspace where you ask questions, explore answers, and kick off report generation — from any device, anywhere in the world.

What is our current stock position?
Show me overdue invoices this month
Which sales rep closed the most deals?

WhatsApp

Connect your WhatsApp Business number and your team gets answers by message — no login, no app, no friction. Works on any phone your team already carries.

How many orders came in today?
What's our best-selling item this week?
Is the Cape Town branch hitting target?

Your AI assistant

If your team already uses an AI assistant, Grainstack plugs straight in. Your business data becomes a live source it can query — no copy-pasting, no stale exports.

Summarise last week's performance
Flag accounts more than 60 days overdue
Compare this quarter to last year
8
Steps to go live
4
Database types supported
3
Ways to ask — web, WhatsApp, AI
Client workspaces

Your data is safe

Read-only access.
Zero risk to your data.

Grainstack connects to your data the same way a read-only analyst would — it can see and query your data, but it cannot change, delete, or write anything. Ever.

Your data never moves. Nothing is copied to an external server. Every connection is encrypted and authenticated end-to-end.

Read only, always

Write access is explicitly blocked at the source — forbidden at the database level, not just switched off.

Encrypted connections

Every connection between Grainstack and your data is encrypted end-to-end. No plain-text data in transit.

Data stays on your premises

Grainstack runs on hardware you control. Your data never leaves your environment to answer a question.

Per-client isolation

Each workspace is fully isolated — separate credentials, separate access. One client can never see another's data.

Information flow — end to end

You ask a question
Encrypted
Grainstack processes it on your hardware
On-premises
Read-only query — no writes possible
Safe
Answer returned to you
Encrypted
BI Slate composes your PDF report
Branded
"A grain stack is where raw harvest is gathered, layered, and stored before it becomes something useful. Grainstack does the same for your data — collecting every grain of signal and stacking it into intelligence you can act on."
— Grainstack · grainstack.ai · 2026

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Stack your data.
Stack your edge.

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