Cio Bulletin
Today business world is driven by speed, precision, and insights and companies can no longer afford to rely on outdated dashboards and sluggish reporting. Decisions that could make or break growth are often delayed by stale data, rigid workflows, and fragmented analytics. Businesses need intelligence that moves as fast as their teams do—a solution that doesn’t just show numbers, but empowers every employee, from analysts to executives, to act decisively. ThoughtSpot emerges at this critical intersection, transforming the way organizations turn data into actionable decisions.
ThoughtSpot has redefined the procurement analytics landscape with its agentic analytics platform, built to deliver live, explainable AI insights right where decisions happen. Trusted by leading global brands like Coca-Cola, Nasdaq, Nvidia, Sephora, and Toyota, ThoughtSpot has made advanced analytics accessible and practical for organizations of all sizes. Its mission is simple yet profound: to empower every team, every role, and every individual to make smarter, faster, data-driven decisions.
Unlike traditional business intelligence tools, which are often static, cumbersome, and disconnected from daily workflows, ThoughtSpot integrates seamlessly into the environments people already use. From web apps and mobile tools to embedded software platforms, it brings intelligence to the forefront of every process, ensuring data is not just observed but actively leveraged to drive business outcomes.
AI Agents: Redefining the Analytics Experience
At the core of ThoughtSpot’s innovation are its AI agents, particularly the advanced Spotter 3. This autonomous agent transforms complex analytics into intuitive, actionable insights. Spotter 3 does not merely report data—it reasons like an analyst. It blends structured and unstructured data from sources such as Slack, Salesforce, and Jira, delivering holistic intelligence that guides teams from inquiry to strategy. By validating assumptions and auto-correcting errors in real time, Spotter ensures decisions are not just fast, but accurate and trusted.
Spotter’s agentic capabilities extend to multi-dimensional analyses, predictive forecasts, and context-aware summaries. Teams can ask natural-language questions and receive end-to-end, actionable answers instantly. In doing so, ThoughtSpot turns analytics from a reactive tool into a proactive business partner, helping organizations reduce churn, optimize costs, and seize opportunities before competitors even recognize them.
Liveboards: From Data Viewing to Decision-Making
ThoughtSpot’s Liveboards redefine enterprise dashboards, transforming them into interactive, AI-driven decision engines. Unlike traditional static dashboards that require constant updating, Liveboards provide real-time insights embedded directly in workflows. Teams can drill from high-level overviews to granular details without predefining paths, while AI automatically surfaces key trends, anomalies, and predictive insights.
Liveboards enable a shift from passive data consumption to active decision-making. Business leaders, analysts, and front-line employees alike can explore, share, and act on insights immediately, eliminating delays that once hindered innovation. The result is a more agile organization, where every decision is backed by actionable intelligence.
Analyst Studio: Empowering Data Teams
Behind ThoughtSpot’s powerful AI lies Analyst Studio, a collaborative environment designed for data teams to accelerate their work from data preparation to advanced analytics. Equipped with tools for SQL, R, Python, and visual analysis, Analyst Studio ensures teams can model data, define metrics, and generate insights efficiently.
Beyond technical capabilities, Analyst Studio breaks down silos by allowing seamless connectivity to multiple cloud warehouses, Google Sheets, and third-party apps. Its AI Assist feature converts natural-language queries into SQL, streamlining workflows and freeing analysts to focus on strategic insights rather than repetitive reporting. With integrated Python and R notebooks, teams can perform predictive modeling, create advanced visualizations, and automate workflows across platforms.
Smart Apps: Embedding Intelligence Everywhere
ThoughtSpot extends analytics beyond dashboards with its Smart Apps feature. By embedding AI-driven insights into custom applications with minimal coding, businesses can create intelligent, context-aware tools tailored to their workflows. Users gain the ability to take immediate action from within the tools they use daily, turning insights into operational outcomes. This integration ensures that data-driven decision-making is not confined to analysts but permeates every role across the organization.
A Platform Built for Every Role
ThoughtSpot’s solutions cater to the entire organization. Business leaders gain faster, data-informed decision-making capabilities that directly impact revenue and efficiency. Data analysts benefit from governed self-service, reducing redundant dashboard creation while enhancing strategy-driven modeling. Product teams and developers can deliver interactive, AI-powered experiences to end-users, accelerating innovation and time-to-market.
By blending agentic AI, seamless data connectivity, and intelligent application embedding, ThoughtSpot ensures that insights are accessible, trusted, and actionable for all roles. Its focus on transparency, contextual intelligence, and human-in-the-loop feedback sets it apart in a crowded market, making complex analytics approachable for everyone.
Setting the New Standard in Procurement Analytics
In 2025, procurement teams face a complex landscape of suppliers, costs, and dynamic market conditions. ThoughtSpot provides a competitive edge by equipping organizations with an AI-native analytics platform that turns complexity into clarity. By delivering real-time insights across structured and unstructured data, automating multi-step analyses, and embedding intelligence where decisions are made, ThoughtSpot transforms procurement from a reactive function into a strategic driver of growth.
ThoughtSpot is blending agentic AI, interactive dashboards, collaborative workspaces, and embedded analytics, and delivers a unified, intelligent experience that accelerates decision-making, drives innovation, and unlocks the full potential of data.
Meet the Valiant Leader
Ketan Karkhanis is the CEO of ThoughtSpot. Prior to joining the company in September 2024, Ketan was the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Sales Cloud at Salesforce. He returned to Salesforce in March 2022 after his time as the COO of Turvo, an emerging supply-chain collaboration platform. Before that, Ketan spent nearly a decade at Salesforce, where he led product areas in Sales, Service Cloud, Lightning Platform, and finally Analytics, wherein as the Senior Vice President & GM of Einstein Analytics, he pioneered incredible innovation, customer success, and business acceleration from launch to over $300M and a 30,000 strong user community. Prior to Salesforce, Ketan was at Cisco Systems where he led various technology initiatives and initiatives spanning Customer Advocacy, Cisco Certifications & eLearning.