Powerdrill
Powerdrill is an AI data analysis platform with two products: a chat tool for questioning data in plain English, and Bloom, an agent team that automates full analysis workflows.
Powerdrill is an AI data analysis platform sold as two self serve products and an enterprise edition. Powerdrill Chat lets people ask questions of files and databases in plain language. Powerdrill Bloom is an AI workspace with memory, where agent teams turn spreadsheets and documents into insights, charts, slides, documents and reports, with 120+ capabilities, skill workflows and scheduled tasks that run analyses on their own.
Customers build datasets from files, documents and databases that Powerdrill indexes with hybrid indexing and vector storage, and answers cite their sources. Each analysis job returns the Python it ran, the tables and images it produced and the final answer, and a documented Open API creates datasets, data sources, sessions and jobs programmatically. Enterprise defines team members, system users and virtual users with different API and memory rights, and admins manage project membership.
Powerdrill states SOC 2 Type 2 certification and ISO 27001, ISO 20000 and GDPR compliance. Beyond the SaaS team edition, billed by jobs and workspace capacity, a Dedicated Cloud Edition and on premise or private cloud deployment keep data inside the customer's network.
Vendor details
Canonical URL
https://powerdrill.ai
Category
Data analyst agent
Company status
independent
Use cases & customers
Integrations
Excel, CSV, TSV, PDFs and documents, SQL databases, Google Drive, website content and open data explorers; Open API v2 for datasets, data sources, sessions and jobs.
In practice
A marketing manager uploads a customer relationship management export to Powerdrill Chat and asks in plain English about churn and segments, getting charts and a short report back without writing any code.
An analyst hands a spreadsheet to Powerdrill Bloom and schedules a weekly task, and Bloom's agents process the data into insights and a slide deck each week.
A privacy conscious company runs Powerdrill in a dedicated cloud, pays by job and storage, and calls the Open API to create datasets and run analysis jobs from its own tools.
Agentic Index coverage score
8.0 / 14 capabilities · 57%
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Powerdrill takes data from Excel, CSV, TSV, SQL databases, Google Drive, website content and open data explorers and runs Python over it, but no action it takes in outside systems or custom tool is documented. Sourcepowerdrill.ai/featuresread 2026-09-28 |
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| Workflow Orchestration | Partial |
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Bloom describes agent teams that auto process spreadsheets into insights and presentations, and it runs skill workflows. Each job moves through an analyze phase of code, tables and images to a respond phase. The agents' roles, branching or a flow the buyer configures are not documented on the vendor's pages. Sourcepowerdrill.ai/featuresread 2026-09-28 |
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| Knowledge Grounding & RAG | Full |
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Customers build persistent datasets from files, documents and databases that Powerdrill indexes with hybrid indexing and vector storage in the workspace (the capacity Enterprise bills for), and answers cite their sources. Data sources are added or removed through the app or API without retraining. Sourcedocs.powerdrill.ai/enterprise/pricingread 2026-09-28 |
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| Human Oversight & Guardrails | Not documented |
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No approval step, review before output or customer set limit on what the agents may do is documented on Powerdrill's product pages or in its docs. Sourcepowerdrill.ai/featuresread 2026-09-28 |
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| Security, Identity & Governance | Full |
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Powerdrill states SOC 2 Type 2 certification and ISO 27001, ISO 20000 and GDPR compliance, and Enterprise documents three user types with different API and memory rights and admin controlled project memberships. SSO is not documented. Sourcedocs.powerdrill.ai/enterprise/usersread 2026-09-28 |
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| Observability & Auditability | Full |
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Each job returns its analyze phase as ordered blocks of the Python code run, the resulting tables and images, then the answer with its sources, and the API returns the job history of a session, so the steps behind each answer can be reconstructed. No separate audit log is documented. Sourcedocs.powerdrill.ai/api-reference/v2/create-jobread 2026-09-28 |
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| Memory & State Persistence | Partial |
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Bloom is sold as an AI workspace with memory whose agents learn from every analysis, and Enterprise grants the memory feature per user type (virtual users have it, system users do not). What memory keeps, for how long and how it is reviewed or deleted is not stated. Sourcedocs.powerdrill.ai/enterprise/usersread 2026-09-28 |
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| Deployment & Data Residency | Full |
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Powerdrill sells a Dedicated Cloud Edition alongside its SaaS team edition, and its homepage offers running on premise or in the customer's private cloud for data that cannot leave the network. Sourcedocs.powerdrill.ai/enterprise/pricingread 2026-09-28 |
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| Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs | Partial |
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Bloom lists 120+ capabilities and 20+ AI tools for charts, summaries, slides and reports, plus skill workflows, but these are features of the one workspace rather than named prebuilt agents or packs a customer adopts separately. Sourcepowerdrill.ai/featuresread 2026-09-28 |
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| Triggers & Channel Coverage | Full |
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Bloom plans include scheduled tasks (one on Free, twenty on Pro) and auto reporting, so analyses run on a schedule without a person asking. How schedules are set is not detailed. Sourcepowerdrill.ai/pricingread 2026-09-28 |
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| Model Flexibility & Routing | Not documented |
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Bloom plans name Claude Code agent tasks and Claude Skills workflows, which is the vendor's choice of engine, and no model selection for the customer is documented. Sourcepowerdrill.ai/pricingread 2026-09-28 |
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| APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility | Full |
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A documented Open API (v2, API key header, OpenAPI specification) creates and manages datasets, data sources, uploads, sessions and jobs, for example POST /v2/team/jobs to run an analysis, with streaming responses. Sourcedocs.powerdrill.ai/api-reference/v2/overviewread 2026-09-28 |
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| Testing, Debugging & Optimization | Not documented |
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No test set, scored cases or evaluation of the agents' answers is documented on Powerdrill's product pages or in its docs. Sourcepowerdrill.ai/featuresread 2026-09-28 |
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| Browser & Computer Use | Not documented |
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Powerdrill searches open data and can build agents from website content, but no browser, desktop or computer control is described. Sourcepowerdrill.ai/featuresread 2026-09-28 |
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The Agentic Index coverage score grades every vendor Full, Partial or Not documented against the same 14 buyer facing capabilities, from public evidence only. Each capability links to how all vendors in the index score on it. How this evidence is graded
Pricing
Free plans; Chat from $3.90 per month, Bloom Pro $16.58 per month
per plan per month with credits (Bloom); per plan (Chat); jobs and workspace capacity (Enterprise)
What is public
Every Chat and Bloom plan price, Bloom credit allowances and scheduled task counts, and the Enterprise job and workspace price tiers; Dedicated Cloud is custom.
Variable cost rationale
Bloom plans draw down credits and Enterprise bills per job, so heavy use buys credit packages or higher job tiers.
Overage / add-ons
One time credit packages valid 12 months; Enterprise job tiers
Sales call required
Mixed (some tiers require a call)
Free / trial
Free plans on Chat and Bloom
Lowest paid plan
Chat Basic ($3.90 per month)
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