BUILD OR BUY
Build your own or start with xFalcon.
Compare the work involved in setting up analytics for your team.
xFalcon brings data exploration, reports and team controls together. Building your own gives you control over how each part works.
COMPARE YOUR OPTIONS
What each approach involves
| Dimension | Model plus your dataDirect, do it yourself | Build your ownYour engineers, your MCP server | xFalconThe platform, deployed |
|---|---|---|---|
| First chart | Depends on your tools and data. | Your team builds the connection. | Built from your agreed definitions. |
| Team setup | You manage shared context and access. | Your team builds and maintains it. | Four to six weeks for one or two business areas. |
| The same question next month | You supply the metric definition each time. | Your team maintains metric definitions. | The same definition, re-run against live data. |
| Data quality | You check data quality. | Your team builds data checks. | Every dashboard scored before it is built. |
| Truncated results | You check for incomplete results. | Depends on your implementation. | Row count estimated first and truncation flagged after. |
| Audit and lineage | Chat transcripts. | You build it. | Every figure resolves to its SQL and the tables it touched. |
| Shared business knowledge | You organize and share the context. | Your team builds a shared knowledge store. | Memory and annotations, versioned and shared. |
| Delivery formats | Depends on the tools you use. | Your team builds report formats. | Briefings, decks and workbooks from the same governed queries. |
| Governed action | Depends on the tools you use. | Your team builds approval controls. | Approvals default to ask. Every allow and deny recorded. |
| Support | You. | Your engineering team. | Iseyon support and a documented setup. |
| Cost shape | Model usage plus your time. | Development, hosting and maintenance. | A monthly platform fee plus $10 per seat, a one-time setup fee, and AI model usage billed separately. |
PLAN AHEAD
Questions to work through
Number drift
Agree on what each metric means so the team can compare results.
Silent truncation
Check whether a query returned all the rows needed for a total.
Data readiness
Identify missing data and unclear table relationships before building reports.
Key-person risk
Keep business rules and corrections available to the whole team.
The security review
Plan access, activity records and hosting with your security team.
WHAT YOU WOULD BUILD YOURSELF
What your team would maintain
A custom build needs ongoing care as your data, metrics and security requirements change.
What it costs instead is published in full. A monthly platform fee plus $10 per seat, a one-time setup fee, and AI model usage billed separately. Tiers are on the pricing page
- A map of table relationships
- Data checks for each dashboard
- One filter standard for every report
- A metric dictionary the business has signed off
- Shared business rules and corrections
- Checks for incomplete query results
- A dashboard framework with refresh, pagination and drill-through
- Deck and workbook generators that reconcile to source
- Per-tool authorization, an approval gate and an audit log
- Hosting, encryption, backups and maintenance
THREE QUESTIONS FOR YOUR OWN TEAM
Ask these first
If two people ask for revenue this month, do they get the same number? Can either prove it?
Who approves that a metric definition is correct, and where is that written down?
Could the pilot everyone likes pass an InfoSec review as it stands today?
These answers help you decide what your team needs.
When a simple setup is enough
For a one-off question on a clean dataset, a model and a database connection may be enough.
xFalcon adds shared definitions, source details, reports and team controls.
A $3,500 proof of concept runs on one subject area of your data. The fee is credited toward installation if you proceed.
Get started
What could you find in your data?
See xFalcon explore a business question, then try it on your own data.
To try your own data, start with a $3,500 proof of concept over 2-4 weeks.
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