Cadence.
Analytics platform, designed and built — A analytics product that makes a firehose of data feel like a calm dashboard — one that answers the question before you finish asking it.
Overview
Cadence needed an analytics platform that its own team could be proud of — fast, honest with numbers, and light enough that non-analysts would actually open it.
We took it from empty repo to live product: the data model, the interface, the charts, the query layer and the polish.
The challenge
Analytics tools drown people in options. The hard part was not drawing charts — it was deciding what not to show, and making the few things that mattered instant.
- Sub-second queries over large datasets
- A chart system that stays legible when data is ugly
- Dashboards a beginner can build in minutes
- A visual language that reads as trustworthy
Our approach
We designed the information architecture first, then built vertically — one real dashboard, wired to real data, before we scaled the pattern across the product.
- Typed query layer with aggressive caching
- A restrained chart kit built on a single grid
- Server-driven layouts, no bespoke pages
- Motion used only to explain change, never to decorate
The outcome
Cadence launched on time and became the tool the whole company checks each morning. Query times stayed under a second at 10× the data we tested with, and onboarding went from a training session to a five-minute self-serve.
“They shipped in sixteen weeks what our last vendor scoped for a year.”
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