Plato is a database admin for business operations on your PostgreSQL or MySQL database. If you’re familiar with Airtable, you can think of Plato as “Airtable for your database”. Everyone in your organization can use Plato; SQL knowledge is not required.
Lots of jobs require database access: a customer support agent must diagnose and fix user issues; a supply chain manager must track the status of their inventory; a product managers must understand how their product is being used.
Without Plato, there are three approaches to this problem:
a) Teammates ask engineers to fetch data and run scripts at a SQL console — slow and expensive.
b) Engineers build internal tools from scratch — slow and expensive.
c) Engineers build tools with an internal tool builder — faster, but operators still rely on engineers to build and extend their tools.
Plato is a new approach that requires less work from engineers and provides more power to the operators who must use these tools everyday. Engineers connect and secure the database, but operators are free to run their own queries, safely extend data, and automate their work.
To see Plato in action, watch the following demo: