Zing Data
Generative BI: ask questions in plain English, get charts and dashboards.
About
Zing Data is a generative BI platform founded in 2021 by Zack Hendlin. It targets the gap between heavyweight desktop BI and casual business users: a visual query builder plus LLM-powered natural language querying, so non-technical people can ask questions in plain English and get charts back. It works in the browser and on a phone, which is a deliberate pitch at deskless workers in fields, factories, and stores rather than just office analysts.
The vendor claims support for common databases including Snowflake, Postgres, MySQL, BigQuery, Google Sheets, Redshift, and Trino, along with partnerships with Google and Starburst, plus shared questions, @mentions, push notifications, and two-tap access to underlying data tables. It raised $2.4M to bring BI to mobile, and the company lists fast-growing startups and Fortune 1000 companies as users. I could not load its site directly (getzingdata.com refused non-browser requests), so the feature set here is provider-claimed via comparison directories and press.
What it can do
- LLM-powered natural language querying
- Visual query builder
- Mobile and browser apps
- Shared questions and search across the organization
- @mentions, push notifications, and shared chat
- Custom SQL with smart typeaheads
- External sharing links
Setup
- Sign up on the Zing Data website.
- Connect your database or warehouse (Snowflake, Postgres, MySQL, BigQuery, Redshift, Trino, or Google Sheets).
- Ask a question in plain English or use the visual query builder.
- Save, share, and discuss results with your team.
Prerequisites
Access to a supported database or warehouse.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 6/10
Scored 6/10 (TIER metrics, metrics-v1). Evidence: founded 2021, raised $2.4M (startup-weekly); vendor-claimed Fortune 1000 and startup users plus Google/Starburst partnerships; still listed on comparison directories with recent crawls. Strengths: LLM natural-language querying, mobile-first BI, broad database support. Docked for: (1) small funding base and no independent adoption numbers I could verify; (2) official site could not be loaded directly, so features are provider-claimed via third parties. License: proprietary.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 5.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 6.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 7.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 6.0/10
- · Founded 2021 by Zack Hendlin (TechCrunch startup profile)
- · Raised $2.4M to bring BI to mobile (startup-weekly)
- · Vendor-claimed Fortune 1000 + startup users; Google/Starburst partnerships claimed by vendor
- · Comparison directories crawled within days still list active product
- · Official site (getzingdata.com) could not be loaded directly; features provider-claimed via third parties
Sources
Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.