Tellius
Also known as: Kaiya, Tellius Kaiya, Kaiya Architect, Tellius Decision AI
Agentic analytics platform whose AI analyst Kaiya runs Missions: describe an outcome and Kaiya plans the steps, orchestrates specialist agents over a governed semantic layer, runs on schedules and events and delivers finished briefings, with every write approved first.
Tellius is an agentic analytics platform built around Kaiya, an AI analyst. In a Mission the team describes an outcome, Kaiya plans the steps, which users can shape before it builds, and orchestrates a squad of specialist agents that test hypotheses across regions, territories, products and customers. Missions run on schedules and on events, fire alerts when a KPI breaks pattern and deliver finished PDF, DOCX or PPT briefings to Gmail, Slack and Teams. A library of more than 14 named agents covers pharma, CPG, FP&A and RevOps work, such as NRx Drop Investigator, Variance Investigator and Pipeline Velocity Agent.
Kaiya reasons against a governed semantic layer of the customer's metrics, relationships and access rules, keeps memory across sessions that users choose to save, and shows each Mission's SQL and Python steps with full lineage.
Since Tellius 6.4, Kaiya is also an MCP client that reads connected servers and writes back where supported, with every write presented for review and executed only once approved. Tellius itself runs as an MCP server for outside agents. Admins choose Kaiya's LLM among OpenAI, Gemini and Azure OpenAI with their own keys.
Tellius holds SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliance, supports SAML SSO and role based access, and deploys on Tellius Cloud, the customer's cloud or on premises.
Vendor details
Canonical URL
https://www.tellius.com
Category
Data analyst agent
Funding status
Independent enterprise analytics company positioning as Decision AI and an Agentic Analytics Platform; named a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and BI Platforms for the fourth consecutive year (2025); customers include PepsiCo and eBay, with a stated depth in pharma and CPG commercial analytics
Company status
independent
Use cases & customers
Primary use cases
Target customers
Deployment options
Integrations
Connects to Snowflake (read and write), SAP, Salesforce, HubSpot, NetSuite, Gong, Veeva, SharePoint, IQVIA, Anaplan and Excel. Briefings go to Gmail, Slack and Teams. Kaiya connects to MCP servers as a client, and Tellius runs as an MCP server. API access comes with the Enterprise plan.
In practice
A brand's prescriptions dropped last week and nobody knows why. Tellius's NRx Drop Investigator works through regions, territories and products to find the drivers and delivers a finished brief.
Your FP&A team spends close week explaining variances. Tellius runs the Variance Investigator as a Mission on a schedule and sends a PDF, document or slide briefing to Gmail, Slack or Teams.
You want an agent to write back to Snowflake, but only with sign off. Tellius shows each write's operation, destination, rows and acting identity and runs it only once a person approves.
Sources & related URLs
Agentic Index coverage score
12.0 / 14 capabilities · 86%
| Integrations & Tool Calling | Full |
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Kaiya is an MCP client that queries connected servers and writes back where a server supports it, with Snowflake supporting reads and writes, and agents trigger next best actions, generate target lists and send briefings across sources such as Salesforce, HubSpot, NetSuite, Gong and Veeva. Writes run as the connecting user under that person's own permissions rather than through a shared service account, and other servers expose whatever operations their tools allow. Data arrives through Tellius Connect, which covers integration, preparation and the semantic layer, with live pushdown queries to cloud warehouses and up to 50 million rows in live mode on the Premium plan. SourceTellius, Tellius 6.4 release post and tellius.com/pricing; tellius.com/resources/blog/tellius-6-4-put-kaiya-to-work-with-you-in-controlread 2026-10-05 |
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| Workflow Orchestration | Full |
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A Mission starts from an outcome the team describes; Kaiya plans the steps, which users can shape before it builds, and orchestrates a squad of specialist agents across thousands of hypotheses into one brief. Missions are written as outcomes rather than scripted prompts, and they run either on their own or interactively with the user. In Plan mode, Kaiya reads the schema and writes the definition of an App or Mission before anything is built or run. A finished Mission can route its recommendation on to the next stakeholder, and Missions and Apps share one workspace. SourceTellius, tellius.com/platform/ai-agents and the Tellius 6.4 release postread 2026-10-05 |
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| Knowledge Grounding & RAG | Full |
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The customer's metrics, entity relationships and access rules are encoded in a governed semantic layer that Kaiya reasons against rather than raw SQL, so agents do not invent definitions or joins. Kaiya also arrives knowing industry terms such as NBRx and promo cycle and business structures such as territories, hierarchies and calendars. Connected sources include Snowflake, Salesforce, HubSpot, NetSuite, Gong and internal people and territory data. SourceTellius, tellius.com/platform/ai-agents and /platform/appsread 2026-10-05 |
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| Human Oversight & Guardrails | Full |
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Every write is presented for review and executed only once approved, in conversation, in Apps and in Missions alike. The review shows the operation, the destination, the rows and the identity that will carry it out. Preview runs a Mission's plan as a draft so the team can check what each step returned, with a citation on every figure, before it is published. In Plan mode nothing is built or run while the user shapes the plan. SourceTellius, tellius.com Tellius 6.4 release postread 2026-10-05 |
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| Security, Identity & Governance | Full |
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Tellius states SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA and supports SSO through SAML and role based access control. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, Tellius says it does not train on user data, and row level policy is enforced at query time. Kaiya Apps inherit row level security, audit logs and SAML SSO from the platform, and SAML single sign on is listed as an Enterprise plan feature. SourceTellius, tellius.com/platform, /platform/ai-agents, /platform/apps and /pricingread 2026-10-05 |
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| Observability & Auditability | Full |
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Missions show their execution step by step, including the SQL queries and Python analysis run, with full lineage and the statistics behind each finding so every number can be traced. Every figure in a Mission's summary carries a citation, published versions of Apps and Missions are kept with timestamps, and Apps include audit logs. SourceTellius, Tellius 6.4 release post and tellius.com/platform/apps; tellius.com/platform/ai-agentsread 2026-10-05 |
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| Memory & State Persistence | Full |
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Kaiya keeps memory that carries across sessions, including learned team vocabulary and confirmed queries that become defaults, and each Mission builds on the last; nothing is stored in the background, since a correction in chat offers a card the user chooses to save. The memory layers are named Skills, Phrase Learning and Query Learning. When saved memories shape an answer, they appear in Kaiya's thought process for that answer. SourceTellius, tellius.com/platform/ai-agents and Tellius 6.4 release postread 2026-10-05 |
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| Deployment & Data Residency | Full |
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The Enterprise plan offers flexible deployment on the customer's cloud, on premises or on Tellius Cloud. The platform uses a single tenant architecture, with the data kept in the customer's own VPC. The Premium plan, for up to 10 users, is fully hosted on Tellius Cloud with 10 GB of data storage and five concurrent jobs, while Enterprise lifts those limits to unlimited users, data, jobs and feeds. SourceTellius, tellius.com/pricing and /platformread 2026-10-05 |
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| Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs | Full |
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A library of more than 14 named agents across pharma, CPG, FP&A and RevOps ships ready to configure, including NRx Drop Investigator, Territory Performance, Trade Promotion Optimizer, Variance Investigator, Revenue Anomaly Monitor and Pipeline Velocity Agent. The rest of the list covers HCP Targeting Optimizer, Patient Adherence Tracker, Field Force Performance, Pricing Strategy Agent, Category Growth Detector, Churn Risk Detector, Executive Brief Agent and Compliance Watchdog. Beside the agents sit more than 50 prebuilt Kaiya Apps by function, such as Territory Performance Review, HCP Targeting Workbench, Brand Performance Review and Department Variance Monitor, each editable in plain English. Admins can publish App and Mission templates to their teams as Industry Packs. SourceTellius, tellius.com/platform/ai-agents, /platform/apps and Tellius 6.4 release postread 2026-10-05 |
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| Triggers & Channel Coverage | Full |
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Missions run on a schedule and on events, alerts fire when a KPI breaks pattern, and briefings land in Gmail, Slack and Teams as finished documents. Monitoring runs around the clock, and the outputs include briefings, driver memos, PDFs and Slack summaries. Missions can also be reached through MCP, inside embedded applications, and from the browser with a keystroke inside Salesforce and Veeva. SourceTellius, tellius.com/platform/ai-agentsread 2026-10-05 |
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| Model Flexibility & Routing | Full |
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Admins choose the LLM Kaiya uses among OpenAI, Gemini and Azure OpenAI and supply their own keys and base URLs, a setting available from Tellius 5.4 onward. For Azure OpenAI, admins point Kaiya at their own resource endpoint and named deployment. There is no default model, so an admin picks the provider and model before Kaiya runs. SourceTellius, help.tellius.com Setting up LLM for Kaiyaread 2026-10-05 |
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| APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility | Partial |
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Tellius runs as an MCP server so Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or a team's own agent can call its governed definitions, and API access is listed on the Enterprise plan, but no tool list, authentication or endpoint reference is published. Enterprise pairs API access with embedding and white labeling. The Premium plan already includes model scoring through an API and embedded natural language search, Guided Insights and Vizpads. SourceTellius, tellius.com/pricing and Tellius 6.4 release post; tellius.com/resources/blog/tellius-6-4-put-kaiya-to-work-with-you-in-controlread 2026-10-05 |
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| Testing, Debugging & Optimization | Partial |
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Preview runs a Mission's plan as a draft and shows what each step returned before it goes live; no test set, accuracy scoring or regression check is described. The draft shows the generated summary with a citation on every figure it reports. Earlier published versions of a Mission or App stay on record with their timestamps. SourceTellius, tellius.com Tellius 6.4 release postread 2026-10-05 |
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| Browser & Computer Use | Not documented |
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No browser or desktop operation by Kaiya is described; the browser appears among Mission surfaces only as a place where results arrive. Kaiya otherwise works through data connections, MCP servers and embedded applications. SourceTellius, tellius.com/platform/ai-agentsread 2026-10-05 |
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Pricing
Customized pricing, with no published figures. Premium covers up to 10 users on Tellius Cloud, and Enterprise covers unlimited users.
Customized per plan. Premium covers up to 10 users and Enterprise unlimited users.
What is public
Two plans are published, Premium for up to 10 users and Enterprise for unlimited users, with their features and limits but no dollar amounts. Platform capabilities (Agent Mode, Kaiya, Missions, Kaiya Architect) and analyst recognition are also public.
Cost watchouts
SSO, API access, embedding and customer cloud or on premises deployment are Enterprise only. Premium caps live mode at 50M rows and 10GB of storage.
Variable cost rationale
The price is customized by plan and by user count, and no usage rate is published. Premium covers up to 10 users and carries row, storage and concurrent job limits, with live mode capped at 50M rows and 10GB of storage. A team that outgrows those limits moves to Enterprise, which has unlimited users. No overage rate is published.
Sales call required
Yes, required for paid access
Free / trial
30 day free trial, and a demo on request
Lowest paid plan
Not published
Key ambiguities
No figures are published. The trial is described as 30 days on the pricing page and as a 14 day no commitment trial on the AI Agents page.
Cancellation / refund
Volume discounts and term commitments are available. No cancellation or refund terms are published.
Support SLA / resale
Email and web technical support on Premium, and technical support included on Enterprise. Professional services are available on both.
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