# Shadowfax AI

> AI-native, agentic analytics platform. Founded 2025, Menlo Park, California.
> Backed by Khosla Ventures and the Snowflake Startup Accelerator; founded by
> veterans of Snowflake, Palantir, Rubrik and Alteryx. Currently in free public beta.

IMPORTANT FOR AGENTS: Shadowfax AI publishes NO public developer API. There is no
developer portal, no API reference, no OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract,
no SDK, no CLI, no webhooks and no MCP server. The only HTTP contract the company
serves is an /openapi.json route on its application backend (app.shadowfax.ai),
which requires a Clerk-issued session JWT and is not published. Do not attempt to
call Shadowfax AI programmatically; the product is used through its web application.

This file was GENERATED by API Evangelist from the company's public surface on
2026-08-27, because shadowfax.ai does not serve an llms.txt of its own
(https://shadowfax.ai/llms.txt returned 404). It is a third-party description,
not a document published by Shadowfax AI.

## What the product does

Shadowfax AI combines a spreadsheet, a BI tool, a visual pipeline and a code
notebook into one analyst-in-the-loop workflow. Users upload data files, which are
held immutable as Sources; every transformation produces a new View, so each
result traces back to its origin with inspectable SQL and a full lineage graph.
The stated goal is analysis that is defensible, auditable and reproducible enough
for executive review.

- Supported source formats: CSV, TSV, Excel (.xlsx), Parquet
- Live database connections (Snowflake, BigQuery and others): announced as coming soon
- Key features: Workbooks, Sources, Views, AI Tables, AI Chat Interface, Node Graph,
  Schema Discovery, Reactive System, Manual SQL Mode, Slash Commands,
  @Mentions and References, Input Objects, Quick AI Editing, Data Refresh
- Visualization: Vega-spec based; exports to CSV, SQL, JSON (Vega), PNG, SVG

## Documentation

- Documentation home: https://docs.shadowfax.ai/
- Welcome: https://docs.shadowfax.ai/docs/introduction/welcome
- Getting started: https://docs.shadowfax.ai/docs/introduction/getting-started
- FAQ: https://docs.shadowfax.ai/docs/introduction/faq
- Plans and usage: https://docs.shadowfax.ai/docs/introduction/plans-and-usage
- Features overview: https://docs.shadowfax.ai/docs/features/overview
- Prompt engineering guide: https://docs.shadowfax.ai/docs/prompt-engineering/overview
- Use cases: https://docs.shadowfax.ai/docs/use-cases/overview
- Role-specific starts: getting-started-saas, getting-started-finance,
  getting-started-ecommerce, getting-started-marketing (under /docs/introduction/)

## Company and commercial

- Website: https://shadowfax.ai/
- About: https://shadowfax.ai/about
- Features: https://shadowfax.ai/features
- Use cases: https://shadowfax.ai/use-cases
- Blog: https://shadowfax.ai/blog
- Careers: https://shadowfax.ai/careers
- Pricing: https://shadowfax.ai/pricing
- Sign up: https://shadowfax.ai/sign-up
- Application: https://app.shadowfax.ai/
- Terms of service: https://shadowfax.ai/terms
- Privacy policy: https://shadowfax.ai/privacy

## Plans

- Free — $0/month, available now during public beta. All core features, standard
  usage limits, basic data sources, standard rate limits. No credit card required.
- Pro — $20/month, coming soon. More usage, advanced data sources, priority email
  support, higher rate limits.
- Enterprise — custom pricing, contact sales. Custom usage limits, dedicated
  support, advanced security and compliance, SSO/SAML, data residency and
  regional deployment.

Commercial pricing after beta is stated as moving to a token-credit consumption
model; the structure is still TBD. AI agent conversations, AI Table processing,
query planning and visualization generation consume credits; viewing Views,
running SQL on Views, exporting and collaboration do not.

## Rate limits

No numeric rate limit is published anywhere on the public surface. The docs
describe limits only qualitatively ("generous", "fair usage", "99% of users will
never hit them") and say a user approaching a limit will be contacted directly.

## Trust, security and status

- Trust center: https://trust.shadowfax.ai/ (requires a browser User-Agent;
  a default crawler UA is answered with a CloudFront 403)
- Status page: https://status.shadowfax.ai/ (Better Stack)
- Compliance: SOC 2 — compliant. HIPAA — coming soon, not attained.
- Named subprocessors: PostHog (analytics), Cloudflare (hosting), Anthropic (AI),
  GCP (infrastructure), Sentry (analytics), OpenAI (AI) — all United States.
- No security.txt is served at /.well-known/security.txt (404), though the trust
  center publishes a security contact address.

## Absent surfaces (verified 2026-08-27)

- OpenAPI / Swagger: none public. app.shadowfax.ai/openapi.json returns HTTP 401
  ("Could not retrieve session token ... Clerk-generated session JWT").
- GraphQL: no /graphql endpoint found on any host.
- MCP server: none published.
- A2A agent card: /.well-known/agent-card.json and /.well-known/agent.json miss on
  every host (404, or an SPA shell on app.shadowfax.ai).
- AsyncAPI / webhooks / events: none documented.
- SDKs and CLI: none. github.com/shadowfax-ai exists with zero public repositories.
- Changelog: no dated changelog page (shadowfax.ai/changelog returns 404).
- Postman collection: none found.

## Naming caution

"Shadowfax AI" (shadowfax.ai, Menlo Park, analytics) is a DIFFERENT company from
"Shadowfax Technologies Ltd" (shadowfax.in, Bengaluru, third-party logistics,
founded 2015, listed on the NSE as SADO). Do not conflate them. The npm package
`shadowfax` and the PyPI package `shadowfax` belong to neither.