Set up nao in 5 minutes

We just published a 5-minute data teams onboarding video. Whether you're setting up nao for the first time or evaluating it for your team, this is the fastest way to see the full setup flow - from pip install nao-core to a deployed agent your whole company can chat with.

What the video covers

Install and configure

There are two ways to get started. You can install nao locally with the CLI (pip install nao-core) and run the setup agent, or sign up directly on nao Cloud and connect your data from the browser. Both paths get you to a working agent in minutes.

Connect your data

The setup agent walks you through connecting your data warehouse, syncing your dbt repository, and pulling in business context from Notion or Confluence. At the end, you have a context layer - a file system describing your tables, your dbt documentation, and your business knowledge.

Chat, build stories, automate

Once your LLM is configured, you can start asking questions. nao goes through the context layer to understand which tables to query, writes the SQL, extracts data, and builds charts. From there you can create stories - shareable analytics reports that can be edited, versioned, and set to refresh on a schedule. Your users can also set up automations: define a trigger, a prompt, and a delivery channel.

Evaluate and improve

nao test lets you evaluate your agent's reliability against a set of questions representing your core KPIs. It outputs accuracy, cost per run, and latency. Then context recommendations closes the loop: an agent reviews your users' conversations, spots mistakes and bad feedback, and suggests changes to your context with the right definition.

Deploy to your team

You can self-host with our Docker image or Helm charts, or deploy to nao Cloud with a single command. From there, add users, create groups with scoped data access, and set up role-level security on the Enterprise plan. nao is accessible through Slack, Teams, WhatsApp, Discord, and MCP - your users can query data from wherever they work, and you keep full observability on every conversation.

Custom appearance

Import your company's colors, fonts, and logo so every story, dashboard, and slide deck your team creates matches your internal branding. You can input a website URL, upload an image, or provide a design system file - nao extracts the palette and applies it across all generated content.

Get started

• Quickstart docs
• GitHub
• nao Cloud