Open source · Self-host or cloud
Nobody knows what your data team ships.
Data Cartel is the portal your data team publishes to the rest of the company. One page per business unit: what is on the roadmap, what shipped, how well they are being served, and what is in the queue.
14 days free, then $99 a month. A card is required to start, and you are not charged until the trial ends.
The status quo
Your data team ships constantly. The company sees a Jira board.
The Confluence page
Written once, never opened again. Nobody outside the team knows the URL.
The Jira board
Accurate, exhaustive, and unreadable to anyone who does not live in it.
The quarterly slide
Assembled the night before. Believed by nobody in the room.
All three are built for the data team. None of them are built for the people asking.
What it is
One portal per business unit.
Marketing sees Marketing. Finance sees Finance. Each one gets the roadmap, the changelog, the health grade and the request queue for their work only. Your team publishes once.
acme.datacartel.io/marketing
- Overview
- Roadmap
- Changelog
- Health
- Requests
- Documents
Organisation
Acme
Business unit
Marketing
Health
Needs attention- DeliveryOn track
- Data reliabilitySlipping
- Backlog vs. capacitySlipping
- AdoptionOn track
- Open risksOn track
Roadmap
- NowCampaign attribution modelIn progress
- SoonSelf-serve spend dashboardNext up
- LaterLifecycle cohort reportingScoped
Shipped
Paid social spend reconciled to finance
Warehouse2d ago
Lead source dashboard rebuilt
Reporting & BI6d ago
HubSpot sync moved to hourly
Extract & load9d ago
Departmental Health
A grade per business unit, not a vibe.
Every business unit is graded on five dimensions. The worst one sets the grade, so a green wall cannot hide a failing pipeline. These are the questions, unchanged from the rubric the product runs on.
Delivery
Are committed items for this business unit landing on time?
Data reliability
Are their pipelines, dashboards and reports accurate and trustworthy right now?
Backlog vs. capacity
Are incoming requests being met, or is a queue building beyond available hours?
Adoption
Is the business unit actually using what has been built?
Open risks
Any material blocker, data issue, or anomaly currently flagged?
What is in it
Six surfaces. That is the whole product.
Roadmap
Now, soon and later, per business unit. Not a Jira export.
Changelog
What shipped, tagged by the layer of the stack it touched.
Departmental Health
Five dimensions, graded. Worst dimension sets the grade.
Requests
The intake queue in the open, so the backlog argues for itself.
Documents and assets
The dashboards, models and write-ups, in one place people can find.
Office hours
Book time with the data team without opening a ticket first.
Two ways to run it
The cloud sells operations, not features.
The self-hosted edition is not a trial and not a cut-down build. It is the same application, running the same code, with one organisation in it. Paying us means we run it for you.
| Capability | Self-hosted | Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| The full product | Yes | Yes |
| Business units, roles, permissions | Yes | Yes |
| Weekly digest email | Yes | Yes |
| MCP server for Claude | Yes | Yes |
| Your own database and storage | Yes | We run it |
| Your own subdomain | Your host | acme.datacartel.io |
| Upgrades, backups, uptime | You | Us |
| Warmed sending domain for magic links | You | Us |
| Security questionnaire answered | You | Us |
| Price | Free | $99 a month |
| Available | Coming soon | Now |
Open source
Run it yourself, soon. For free.
The self-hosted edition is not released yet. When it is, it will be the same codebase the cloud runs, with one organisation in it, and the cloud will run tagged releases of the repository you can read.
Bring your own Postgres and your own SMTP server. No account with us required, and nothing phones home.
Self-host
Coming soon
The plan: Postgres included. Migrations run on boot. Secrets generated on first start. Seeded with one organisation, one owner and example content so the first screen is not empty.
Give your data team a portal this week.
Create a workspace, add your business units, and publish the first roadmap. Your team gets its own address.
14 days free, then $99 a month. A card is required to start, and you are not charged until the trial ends.