Introduction
Welcome to Precog — the easiest way to turn application data into analytics-ready data, automatically.
Precog eliminates the complexity of building and maintaining integrations. You simply choose your sources, define your destination, and set a schedule. Precog handles authentication, schema discovery, and continuous updates behind the scenes. No code, no maintenance, no hidden surprises — just reliable data flow from any business application to your data warehouse.
This section helps you understand how Precog works and guides you through your first successful integration. You'll learn how to connect sources and destinations, organize your environment with organizations and workspaces, and automate updates on your preferred cadence.
Whether you're powering dashboards, reports, or machine learning, Precog ensures your data is always current, accurate, and ready for use.
Start with the Getting Started Guide to create your first integration and see how fast your data can move.
Getting Started
Complete tutorial for first-time users, from sign-in to your first data load.
If this is your first time signing in to Precog, this tutorial will help you get oriented and complete your first hands-on setup. Learn what happens automatically on your first sign-in, then walk through creating a workspace, connecting a source, adding a destination, and running your first data load. You'll finish with a fully working setup and a clear understanding of how Precog organizes your data activity.
How Precog Works
Precog automates the hardest parts of data integration so you don't have to.
When you connect a source, Precog extracts the data and stages it securely. It then interprets the data's structure automatically and loads it into your destination in a clean, query-ready format. This two-phase approach — extraction and loading — ensures speed, reliability, and complete schema accuracy. Precog continuously monitors for changes in your source and updates your data automatically, keeping it fresh and consistent across systems. The result is simple: you always have complete, up-to-date data ready for analysis.
Account Structure
Your Precog account is organized into organizations and workspaces.
An organization represents your company or business entity and includes your billing, users, and overall account settings. Each workspace within an organization is a separate environment for managing data flows — for example, Development, Production, or Marketing. Workspaces help you isolate projects, control user access, and safely test changes before promoting them to production. This structure gives your teams clarity and governance without slowing down collaboration.
Scheduling
Precog keeps your data current automatically through flexible schedules.
You control when and how often data loads run — from one-time loads to recurring updates that match your reporting cycles. Schedules use simple cron expressions under the hood, but most users just pick from easy options like hourly, daily, or weekly. Once set, Precog handles the rest — securely extracting, loading, and refreshing your data on time, every time. Automated scheduling ensures your data stays fresh without manual effort, letting you focus on analysis instead of maintenance.
Popular Use Cases
Precog helps you bring together data from any business system — fast. Whether your goal is better reporting, a single source of truth, or powering data-driven applications, Precog makes it simple to move data where it's needed and keep it current automatically.
Here are a few of the most common ways customers use Precog:
Financial Reporting
Combine accounting and payment data — for example, Xero, QuickBooks, or Stripe — into your data warehouse to generate real-time revenue, expense, and cash flow insights.
Marketing Analytics
Unify data from platforms like Google Ads, Facebook Ads, and Mailchimp into a single analytics environment to track performance across every campaign.
Customer Operations
Sync data from CRMs such as Salesforce or HubSpot into your operational databases to power dashboards, automate workflows, or personalize customer experiences.
No matter what tools you use, Precog ensures your data stays accurate, complete, and ready for analysis — without coding, maintenance, or custom integrations.