What is Evidence?

Evidence is a business intelligence and analytics (ABI) platform for building data products with SQL, markdown, and AI. Use it as a BI tool to write SQL reports, build dashboards, and publish an analytics platform your team can explore. It’s a reporting platform for data visualization — one of the business intelligence tools your whole organization can use. Evidence comes in two parts: an open-source framework you can run yourself, and a hosted platform built on top of it.

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Evidence Core

Evidence Core is an MIT-licensed framework for building data apps from SQL and Markdown. You write reports in Markdown with embedded SQL and components, query your own warehouse through direct connectors, and preview locally with the CLI. It builds to a static site you can self-host anywhere — Vercel, Netlify, Docker, or your own infrastructure. No account required.

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Evidence Studio

Evidence Studio is the hosted platform built on Evidence Core. Alongside everything in Core, it adds:

• A collaborative editor and publishing with preview deployments
• The Evidence Agent for building reports with AI
• Access rules and page-level access control for controlling who sees what
• Scheduled reports and embedded analytics

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Getting Started

Create your first report in minutes.

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Learn More

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