Helical Insight is an open-source business intelligence and embedded analytics platform for self-hosted, cloud, on-premises, and hybrid deployments. It combines natural-language, chat-driven AI analytics with bring-your-own-LLM support, automatic SQL generation, report summarization, and insight discovery; interactive dashboards with filters, KPI widgets, drill-down and drill-through interactions, maps, charts, pivot tables, and custom JavaScript visualizations; and paginated, pixel-perfect reports for invoices, financial statements, operational reports, and regulatory reporting.
Dashboards, reports, and the AI chatbot can be embedded in web applications, SaaS platforms, customer portals, and enterprise applications. Reports and dashboards can be exported to PDF, Excel, CSV, Word, HTML, JSON, and XML, scheduled for delivery by email, and distributed as personalized reports. The platform supports white labeling, multi-tenancy, row-, column-, and table-level security based on user context, and SSO through JWT, Okta, Keycloak, OAuth, and custom token-based mechanisms.
It connects to relational databases, NoSQL and big-data systems, flat files, cloud storage, and APIs through native connectors, JDBC, REST APIs, custom integrations, and uploaded JDBC drivers. Docker, Kubernetes, caching, pagination, virtualization, load balancing, clustering, and REST APIs support deployment and extension, while developers can customize it with Java, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Liquid Template Language, plugins, and custom workflows. The project states that its enterprise features are available in the free open-source version.