# Inconvo

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**In short.** Inconvo (Platform for chat-with-data agents inside SaaS products, open source from 2026, Ireland): Joined Attio with terms not disclosed, July 2026. Evidence grade E: no revenue figure was checked. Team: 2 co-founders, Eoghan and Liam Mulcahy; Y Combinator lists a team of 2 in October 2024 and November 2026; both joined Attio's engineering team in July 2026. Launched September 2024; sold 22 months after launch.

Platform for chat-with-data agents inside SaaS products, open source from 2026 · Ireland · AI-native · team of 2 to 10 · sold · group: Documents, data and slides

- Outcome: Joined Attio with terms not disclosed, July 2026 (evidence grade of the headline number: E; no revenue figure)
- Launch: September 2024; months from launch to the outcome: 22
- Team: 2 co-founders, Eoghan and Liam Mulcahy; Y Combinator lists a team of 2 in October 2024 and November 2026; both joined Attio's engineering team in July 2026
- Outside funding: Y Combinator Summer 2023; no amount is stated in the sources
- Main factor: Safe queries on customer data
- Meters, 1 to 4: evidence strength 1, copyable pattern 2, capital needed 2
- Tags: AI-native, Small team, Funded, Exit, B2B, Data analytics

Links:

- Visit inconvo.com: https://inconvo.com/

**The product.** A service that software companies put inside their own products so that their users can ask questions about their own data in plain language and get back text, a table or a chart. The developer connects a SQL database, marks which tables, columns and joins the agent may use, and calls the agent through an API, a Node.js SDK or an MCP server. The archived pricing pages listed a free plan and a paid Pro plan. The product was shut down after the team joined Attio in July 2026.

**Why it worked.** Its answer to the main risk of chat-with-data, a model that reads the wrong customer's rows, was to let the model write a structured query plan instead of SQL and to check that plan in ordinary code before it runs. Attio, a CRM company, took the two founders into its engineering team to build agents and integrations.

Evidence grades: A = disclosed by a public company, a filing or a payment processor, or verified by one; B = two or more independent reports agree, or a journalist confirmed it; C = a founder claim that no one else verified; D = reported, not verified: one founder claim or a third-party estimate with no second source; E = no revenue figure found, so the headline is a non-money fact and the other facts carry their own grades; calc = computed on this page from graded facts.

## Summary

Inconvo sold a data agent, a program that takes a question in plain language, looks up the answer in a live database and replies with text, a table or a chart. Its customers were software companies that wanted such an agent inside their own product for their own users, which is called customer-facing analytics. The developer described the data once in a semantic model, a list of the allowed tables, columns, joins, metrics and business terms, and Inconvo enforced multi-tenancy, the rule that each customer of the software company sees only its own rows.

Eoghan Mulcahy and Liam Mulcahy founded it in Limerick, Ireland, in 2023 and went through Y Combinator's Summer 2023 batch; Attio says it launched in 2024, and the earliest archived site, from September 2024, shows a private beta. The focus moved several times: an SDK for conversational AI in 2024, "Ask-AI" for analytics in February 2025, MCP servers (Model Context Protocol, a standard way to let assistants such as ChatGPT or Claude call outside tools) in October 2025, and an open-source release under the Apache 2.0 license in February 2026. The archived pricing pages listed a Pro plan at US$50 a month in June 2025 and from US$149 a month in March 2026.

On 8 and 9 July 2026 the founders and Attio announced that the Inconvo team was joining Attio, and Dealroom News reported on 10 July that Attio had acquired the company on undisclosed terms. Inconvo was shut down and its code repository archived. No sale price, revenue figure or count of paying customers is public, so this page has the grade "No revenue figure".

## Pricing

Inconvo prices before the sale, read from Internet Archive copies of its pricing section of 17 June 2025 and 13 March 2026 (grade C); the product has been shut down since July 2026

| Plan | Per month, billed yearly (US$) | Per month, billed monthly (US$) | Limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free (March 2026) |  | 0 | 1 data agent, 5 active tables, 100 messages |
| Pro (March 2026) |  | from 149 | 3 data agents, 50 active tables, 500 messages; Slack support |
| Enterprise (March 2026) |  | contact us | custom limits, SLAs, success manager |
| Explore (June 2025) |  | 0 | email support |
| Pro (June 2025) |  | 50 | 500 free API calls a month, then "+0.20c" each |

Prices are per month. Neither page shows a discount for yearly billing, so the yearly column is empty. In March 2026 the Pro price was a starting price: more data agents cost US$20 each a month, more tables US$2 each a month and more messages US$0.10 each. The June 2025 page wrote the price of extra API calls as "+0.20c thereafter" without saying whether it meant cents or dollars. Enterprise was priced by contract.

## How much did Inconvo make, and what was it sold for? The numbers, graded

A two-founder Irish company that sold a paid plan for chat-with-data agents and then joined Attio; no price, revenue or customer count is public

| Fact | Value | Grade | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outcome, July 2026 | the team joined Attio; Dealroom News reported an acquisition; terms not disclosed | A | Attio's announcement, 9 July 2026: "the Inconvo team is joining Attio" and the co-founders "are joining our Engineering team". Dealroom News, 10 July 2026: "Attio has acquired Irish tech startup Inconvo" and "Terms of the deal were not disclosed." Attio's post does not use the word acquired and states no price. | [1, 3] |
| What happened to the product | shut down; open-source code kept online, repository archived | C | Founders' post: "Inconvo has been sunset". The home page, read 8 November 2026, shows only the announcement and a link to the code. The GitHub repository says it "is archived and is no longer actively maintained". | [2, 9, 10] |
| Founders | Eoghan Mulcahy and Liam Mulcahy | A | Named as co-founders by Attio and listed as the two founders on the Y Combinator page. | [1, 4] |
| Founded | 2023 in Limerick, Ireland; Y Combinator Summer 2023 | C | Y Combinator page: "year_founded":2023, location Limerick, Ireland, batch Summer 2023. Attio: "Inconvo came out of Y Combinator's Summer 2023 batch and launched in 2024." The founders' post says "Two years ago, we started Inconvo". No source shows a product under another name before 2024. | [4, 1, 2] |
| Team | 2 people | C | Y Combinator page, team size 2, in the archived copy of 31 October 2024 and in the copy read on 8 November 2026. | [4, 5] |
| Earliest product page, 13 September 2024 | private beta: conversational AI for dashboards | C | Archived home page of inconvo.ai: "Currently in private beta" and "Ship conversational AI for your dashboard in less than a day", with a Node.js SDK and other languages marked "Coming soon". | [6] |
| Paid plan, June 2025 | Pro at US$50 a month | C | Archived pricing page of 17 June 2025: Explore free, Pro US$50 a month with 500 free API calls a month, Enterprise on request. | [7] |
| Paid plan, March 2026 | Pro from US$149 a month | C | Archived home page of 13 March 2026, pricing section: Free US$0, Pro "STARTING AT $149 /mo", Enterprise on request. | [8] |
| Paying customers | mentioned, not counted or named | C | The founders' post thanks "our customers" and offers migration support. No source names a paying customer or gives a number. | [2] |
| Open-source code | Apache 2.0 license; 118 stars, 15 forks and 670 commits on GitHub | C | Repository page read 8 November 2026. The open-source release was announced on Launch YC on 10 February 2026. | [9, 4] |
| Databases supported, March 2026 | PostgreSQL, MySQL, MsSQL and Redshift | C | FAQ on the archived home page: "Inconvo will only support SQL databases at least in the short to medium term." | [8] |
| Time from the earliest product page to the sale | 22 months | calc | Calculated: September 2024 to July 2026. | [6, 1] |

How to read this table: a grade A value is stated by the buyer, Attio, in its own announcement. A grade C value is a statement by Inconvo on its own pages, by the company on its Y Combinator page, or a report by Dealroom News. A "calc" value was computed on this page. No money amount for the sale or for revenue exists in the sources.

## When did Inconvo launch, and how did it grow? Timeline

From a Y Combinator batch in 2023 to a sale to Attio, 22 months after the earliest archived copy of the product site. Each entry carries its grade.

- **Summer 2023** (grade C [4, 1]): Eoghan and Liam Mulcahy found Inconvo in Limerick and go through Y Combinator's Summer 2023 batch.
- **13 September 2024** (grade C [6]): The earliest archived site, inconvo.ai, offers a private beta of an SDK that adds AI chat to a customer's dashboard.
- **25 February 2025** (grade C [4]): Launch on Launch YC as "Ask-AI for customer-facing analytics": one API call returns a chart, a table or text.
- **17 June 2025** (grade C [7]): The pricing page lists a free Explore plan, Pro at US$50 a month and Enterprise.
- **9 October 2025** (grade C [4]): A second launch: MCP servers that let a SaaS company's users query their data from ChatGPT, days after OpenAI announced apps inside ChatGPT.
- **10 February 2026** (grade C [4, 8, 9]): Inconvo releases its platform as open source under Apache 2.0 and keeps a paid cloud; in March the Pro plan starts at US$149 a month.
- **8 to 10 July 2026** (grade A [2, 1, 3]): The founders and Attio announce that the team joins Attio; Dealroom News reports an acquisition with undisclosed terms. Inconvo is shut down.

## Why did Inconvo work?

### Query plans instead of SQL

In the February 2026 launch post the founders describe the usual approach, a model that writes SQL plus long prompts, and its problems: wrong rows, rows of another tenant, sensitive columns. Inconvo's model produced a structured query plan, which code checked against the semantic model before it turned the plan into SQL.

### Rules in code, not in prompts

Tenant scoping and column restrictions were applied by deterministic code on every request, so a prompt could not switch them off. The launch posts present this as the hard part of shipping chat-with-data to real customers.

### Follow the place where users ask

When OpenAI announced apps inside ChatGPT in October 2025, Inconvo shipped hosted MCP servers with login, so that a SaaS company's users could ask the same questions from ChatGPT, Claude or Microsoft Copilot.

### Open source next to a paid cloud

From February 2026 developers could run Inconvo locally with one command and move to the hosted cloud, which had the paid Pro plan, for production.

## How it was built

These points come from Inconvo's launch posts, its archived pages, its documentation and its public repository. They are grade C, except the page-source details.

- A semantic model, edited in a web app or pulled to a local file with the command npx inconvo model pull, lists the tables, columns, computed columns, units, join rules and table prompts that the agent may use.
- Each question becomes a structured query plan; the plan is validated and only then converted to SQL, as the February 2026 launch post and the March 2026 home page describe.
- Developers call agents through a REST API or the @inconvoai/node SDK, with streaming, conversation state, feedback and datasets in the API reference.
- Hosted MCP servers with OAuth on the customer's own domain, so that users can connect ChatGPT and other assistants.
- Connections to PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and Amazon Redshift, with documentation pages for BigQuery and Supabase as well.
- The public site is built with Astro and the documentation with Starlight, as the generator tags in the page source show.

Sources: [4, 8, 9, 10, 11]

## Who tried this before Inconvo, and why did they fail?

Three companies in our database of failed startups sold developer infrastructure or embedded answers to businesses and failed. The values below are from that database and are not independently verified.

The failed startups come from our database of dead startups, retold here in our own words; Its entries are AI-assisted summaries of public sources, so they carry no evidence grade.

### Parse.com (2011 to 2017; funding US$85M; cause: Unit Economics)

- Promise: A backend service that let app developers ship without running their own databases or servers.
- Why it died: The database names technical debt, weak unit economics and abandonment by Facebook, which had bought it, as the causes.
- Record: 

### Mage (2021 to 2023; funding US$2.6M; cause: Unit Economics)

- Promise: An open-source tool, from Y Combinator, for building data pipelines more simply than Airflow.
- Why it died: Developers used the free open-source version, and too few paid for the hosted one, the database says.
- Record: 

### Answerly (2013 to 2016; funding US$550K; cause: Product/Tech Failure)

- Promise: Answer systems built into company websites that would answer customers' questions automatically.
- Why it died: The language technology of the time was too weak to answer well, and larger support platforms took the market, the database says.
- Record: 

## What changed

Answerly tried to answer questions in natural language before the models could do it reliably. Inconvo started after large language models made the language part easy, and put its work into the part that was still hard: making sure an answer used only the rows and columns the asking customer was allowed to see.

Mage shows the risk of open source as a business: many users of free code, few who pay for hosting. Inconvo announced its open-source release in February 2026, five months before the sale, and no source shows how many cloud customers it had. Its end resembles Parse's in one way: a larger company took the team and the product stopped. The difference is that Attio is a CRM that wants the same skill, natural-language access to customer data, inside its own product.

## Can one person copy Inconvo now?

**Verdict: The product, with work. The route to a buyer, yes.**

Two engineers built and sold this without a large team, so the technical part is within reach of a small team that knows databases and access control. The harder part is that many companies try to build the same feature in-house. The route that worked here is open to others: solve one safety problem of AI features in other people's products, publish the code, and become useful to a company that needs that skill.

1. Pick one risky step of an AI feature that every software company must get right, such as access to customer data.
2. Put the safety rules in code that runs on every request, not in prompts.
3. Offer the same agent through an API, an SDK and an MCP server, so that it reaches users where they already ask.
4. Publish the code with a hosted paid version for production, and show the work to companies in the same field.

**What is still open.** Safe access layers for other kinds of AI agent actions: writing to databases, calling payment APIs, or changing records in a CRM on a user's behalf.

## What could go wrong for Inconvo?

- **What is not verified.** No sale price, revenue figure or count of paying customers was found. We read Attio's announcement, the founders' post, Dealroom News (whose full company data needs a paid account), the Y Combinator page and its October 2024 copy, archived pricing pages from June 2025 and March 2026, the documentation and the GitHub repository. Paid plans are shown only by the archived price lists and by the founders' thanks to "our customers"; no paying customer is named. We did not read the Business Post article that Dealroom cites. A reader could look for that article or for a later interview with the founders.
- **A team hire more than a product purchase.** Attio's post says the founders join its engineering team to build Attio's agents and integrations; it does not say Attio will keep Inconvo. Inconvo was shut down and its GitHub repository is archived; the home page offers migration support by email and says that the open-source code remains available.
- **Competition.** On this site Upsolve AI sells embedded analytics and governed data agents to SaaS products, the same buyer, while Text2SQL.ai and AI2SQL sell text-to-SQL apps that write queries for the person who asks. Inconvo's own launch post names the most common rival: product teams that build "LLM generates SQL + prompts" in-house.
- **Dependence on model providers.** The agent needed a language model to turn each question into a query plan, but no downloaded page names the provider or model it used. The MCP product also depended on assistants run by other companies: the March 2026 home page names ChatGPT, Claude and Microsoft Copilot as the places where users would reach the agent.

## Sources

1. Attio blog, 9 July 2026: Inconvo is joining Attio — https://attio.com/blog/inconvo-is-joining-attio (grade A). Read in full. The buyer's own announcement. Source for the team joining, the founders' names and roles, the Y Combinator batch and the 2024 launch.
2. Inconvo blog, 8 July 2026: Inconvo is joining Attio, by Eoghan Mulcahy — https://inconvo.com/blog/joining-attio (grade C). Read in full. The founders' post. Source for "Two years ago, we started Inconvo", the thanks to customers and the shutdown.
3. Dealroom News, 10 July 2026: Attio buys Irish AI startup Inconvo to bolster CRM platform — https://dealroom.co/news/138267-attio-buys-irish-ai-startup-inconvo-to-bolster-crm-platform/ (grade C). Read in full (downloaded by the pipeline's harvester on 8 November 2026). A short news item that cites Business Post. Source for the word acquired and the undisclosed terms.
4. Y Combinator company page: Inconvo — https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/inconvo (grade C). Read in full (downloaded on 8 November 2026), including the four Launch YC posts of 25 February 2025, 26 August 2025, 9 October 2025 and 10 February 2026 embedded in it. Source for the founding year, team size, location and product history.
5. Internet Archive copy of the Y Combinator page, 31 October 2024 — https://web.archive.org/web/20241031221156/https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/inconvo (grade C). Read the company data: the 2024 one-line description, year founded 2023 and team size 2.
6. Internet Archive copy of inconvo.ai, 13 September 2024 — https://web.archive.org/web/20240913082343/https://inconvo.ai/ (grade C). Read in full. The earliest archived copy of the site: the private beta and the SDK.
7. Internet Archive copy of the pricing page inconvo.ai/pricing, 17 June 2025 — https://web.archive.org/web/20250617230101/https://inconvo.ai/pricing (grade C). Read in full. Source for the Explore, Pro and Enterprise plans of June 2025.
8. Internet Archive copy of inconvo.com, 13 March 2026 — https://web.archive.org/web/20260313142550/https://inconvo.com/ (grade C). Read in full, including the pricing section and the FAQ. The page inconvo.com/pricing now answers 404.
9. GitHub repository inconvoai/inconvo — https://github.com/inconvoai/inconvo (grade C). Read the repository page and README on 8 November 2026: license, archive notice, stars, forks and commit count.
10. Inconvo home page, read 8 November 2026 — https://inconvo.com/ (grade C). Read in full. Shows only the notice that Inconvo is joining Attio and a link to the open-source code.
11. Inconvo documentation: Getting started and Quickstart — https://inconvo.com/docs/getting-started/quickstart (grade C). Read both pages and the documentation menu on 8 November 2026. Source for the CLI, the SDK, the API reference and the database guides.
12. Database of failed startups, local export — /method/#dead (grade C). Local export. AI-written summaries, not independently verified. Source for the failed predecessors.

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