Most analytics stacks were built for a specific job: internal reporting at large enterprises. They do that job well. But a growing number of organizations need something different. They need to put analytics in front of their customers, their partners, their stakeholders – not just their own staff. And for that job, the traditional stack was never designed.
SaaS companies want to embed usage dashboards in their products. Agencies want to deliver branded, interactive reporting to clients. Charities and public-sector organizations need to share live outcomes data with partners or funders. In each case, the requirements are the same: the analytics must be fast, multi-tenant, white-labelled, and affordable to scale. Traditional BI tools – built around per-seat licensing, enterprise warehouse costs, and internal governance models – fail with all four.
Today, we’re announcing that Astrato integrates with MotherDuck. This is an analytics stack built – not retrofitted – for customer-facing use cases.
Why Astrato + MotherDuck
Astrato already connects to data warehouse platforms built for large-scale enterprise workloads like Snowflake, BigQuery or Databricks. MotherDuck extends that reach into use cases where serverless simplicity and transparent pricing matter more than infrastructure control. Built on DuckDB, the open-source columnar database, MotherDuck is a serverless analytical warehouse designed for growing businesses: there is no warehouse to size, no cluster to manage, and no specialist team required to run it. Billing runs per second of actual compute.
For SMBs and mid-market teams, that combination unlocks something specific. Astrato connects to MotherDuck and queries it live – no data extraction, no intermediate caching – which means every dashboard reflects the latest state of your data at DuckDB’s native analytical speed. The sweet spot for this pairing – and the use case that drove both teams to pursue the partnership – is customer-facing analytics.
Astrato's platform is built for exactly this: pixel-perfect dashboards that can be fully white-labelled, embedded into any application, and delivered to end users through interactive report builders or distributed as PDF, Excel, or PowerPoint via email with role-based access controls. Astrato's embedded pricing doesn't charge per viewer, so costs scale with usage rather than headcount – meaning you can grow your audience without a corresponding jump in licence fees.
The builder requires no code – product managers, analysts, and operations leads can design and iterate on customer-facing visualizations without filing engineering tickets. Combined with automated scheduled reporting, writeback to capture user input directly within dashboards, and AI-assisted insights, the result is a full data product infrastructure that a small team can deploy in weeks rather than quarters.
MotherDuck's serverless architecture and transparent pricing model are designed for teams that value simplicity and speed over infrastructure control. Paired with Astrato, the total cost of ownership is predictable from day one.
Already in use: Safe Families
Safe Families is a UK charity that delivers volunteer-led family support across 30 local authority partnerships, funded through 60 government contracts. Each commissioner requires different outcome data, in different formats, on different timelines – a reporting challenge that was outpacing their existing systems.
“As a charity connecting over 11,000 families with support and journeying over 1,000 potential carers at a time, accessing and exploring our data through our in-house systems was becoming slower and less flexible as we scaled. Partnering with Astrato and MotherDuck is helping us introduce a more responsive analytics layer, with an approach and pricing model that fits the realities of a not-for-profit rather than a traditional enterprise BI setup. Rather than just providing a platform, both teams have worked closely together with us throughout, and that is already helping us deliver more useful insight across the organisation.” – Stuart Main, Director of People, Systems and Solutions, Safe Families
Safe Families' experience illustrates a broader pattern. The organizations that benefit most from this integration don't have – and shouldn't need – a dedicated data warehouse or BI team to share analytical views with their stakeholders.
A purpose-built partnership
“Customer-facing analytics is one of the most compelling use cases we see on MotherDuck – and one of the hardest to get right with a traditional BI stack. Astrato’s approach to embedded, white-labelled dashboards is a natural fit for what our users are building. Combining DuckDB’s analytical performance with Astrato’s no-code builder gives growing businesses a path to shipping data products that was previously only available to teams with dedicated BI engineering resources.” – Nouras Haddad, VP of Partnerships at MotherDuck
Customer-facing analytics has always been harder to get right than internal reporting – it demands multi-tenancy, white-labelling, and a cost model that doesn't penalize you for adding users. What makes this pairing effective is that both platforms are architecturally suited to those requirements, rather than having them bolted on after the fact.
How it works
Whether you're embedding dashboards in a SaaS product, delivering branded reporting to clients, or sharing outcomes data with funders – the setup is deliberately simple.
Connect Astrato to your MotherDuck account, point it at the databases and tables you want to expose, and start building dashboards. Astrato issues live SQL queries to MotherDuck – there is no data to extract, no pipeline to build, and no cache to invalidate. Your data stays in MotherDuck, governed by whatever access controls you’ve established there. Or if you haven’t done that yet, Astrato provides in-app security options.
For multi-tenant use cases – where each of your customers or partner organisations should see only their own data – MotherDuck’s architecture provides per-user compute isolation through dedicated instances called Ducklings. Astrato’s row-level security and role-based access layer then ensures the right users see the right data in the right dashboards.
Getting started
The Astrato + MotherDuck integration is available now. You can connect your MotherDuck account to Astrato and build your first customer-facing dashboard in a matter of hours – no warehouse configuration required.
If you want to explore whether this stack fits your use case, reach out to our team or start a free trial.
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