Set up SBT and build your app’s models, sources, and configuration locally.

Building Apps

Seek Build Tools (SBT) is a framework that empowers data scientists and analysts to design, develop, and deploy complete data science workflows, from data ingestion to interactive visualization, within a single project. Once completed, the project can be deployed to Insight Cloud, Seek's cloud-based analytics platform, where users can securely run your app with their own data.

Seek Build Tools (SBT) Overview


Install SBT, then configure your project with sbtconf.toml: connections, API tokens, and runtime overrides.

Setting Up SBT

Build your first simple app with SBT (one source, two models, one app), with links to go deeper at every step.

Quickstart

A model consists of code that populates a single table or view, along with metadata properties that define how your users can interact with the model.

Models

Sources

Schemas

Reusable helper queries and the run context (the seek object) your model code receives at runtime.

Helpers & the Run Context

Apps

SBT Command References

How freshness settings and shared models reduce redundant app runs and compute costs.

Model Reuse: Freshness and Shared Models

Get an overview of Insight Cloud features and how to use them.

Provide Feedback

Latest Changes

What's Planned

Getting Started

Welcome to Insight Cloud. Your new destination for analytics. 

Start Guide

Foundational ideas behind Insight Cloud and the terms used across the platform.

Concepts

Your personalized starting point in Insight Cloud.

Home

My Apps

Apps are the core analytics experiences inside Insight Cloud.

App Basics

Run the same app with different parameters by market, brand, or use case without switching apps.

App Variants

How to read when your app's data and analysis were last updated.

Data Freshness

Explore Mode helps you take your apps and insights even further

Explore Mode

Intelligence

Get answers, analysis, and guidance across every app in your workspace.

Where to find Seek's policies for data handling and AI safety.

Data Privacy & AI Safety

External dashboards and tools for your workflow

My Reports

Access and organize links to reports from external analytics tools in one central place

Browse and inspect the datasets powering your apps.

Data

Browse and inspect the datasets that power your apps.

Help documentation for creator flows in Insight Cloud.

Create

The full journey of an Insight Cloud app: from SBT build, to install, to a running dashboard.

App & Data Lifecycle

Connect app data to Sigma dashboards and visualizations.

Visualizing

Now that you have built an app that processes consumer data and generates some sort of output tables, you can add data visualizations to your app.

Data Visualizations with Sigma

Publish apps to Insight Cloud, install them into organizations, and set up variants.

Publishing & Installing

What must be in place in Snowflake and your SBT project before an app can install and run successfully.

Prerequisites for App Installs

App Publishing Lifecycle

App Context is the semantic model that lets the Intelligence tool understand an app's data output, so it can answer questions and write accurate SQL.

App Context

How app runs and permissions work, current known issues, and how to report problems.

Running & Troubleshooting

Plain-language guide to the Sync Engine: declared vs observed, the four states, when it acts, and the blind spot behind install failures.

The Sync Engine

First-line triage for app install and run failures: the grant chain, symptom-to-owner table, and how to file an issue.

Troubleshooting App Installs & Runs

Current known issues affecting app installs and runs, and how to report problems so they get triaged fast.

Known Issues & How to Report a Problem

This page is a high level overview of what it takes to migrate SBT BETA apps to SBT 1.0 apps.

SBT 1.0 App Migration Guide

Publisher tools for making your apps discoverable: your public profile (required for the App Store), your catalog of app listings, and a view of the warehouses your apps use.

Publish

Publisher Profile

Discover, subscribe to, and manage apps from the App Store.

App Store

Browse and subscribe to apps on Insight Cloud.

App Store Basics

Subscribe to apps from the App Store to view in your workspace.

Subscriptions

Load your wallet to get access to apps you need

Wallet

Account

Login Methods

Manage your personal profile, password, and preferences in Insight Cloud.

Personal Settings

API Keys

Notification Center

Settings for administering your organization in Insight Cloud.

Organization Settings

Manage your organization’s users, teams, roles, and apps.

Org Management

What lives in Administration and how to manage your workspace.

Administration overview

Manage who has access to your Insight Cloud workspace

Users

Teams help you organize users and apps at scale

Teams

Define what users can see and do in Insight Cloud

Roles

Tools for managing how your organization pays for and accesses apps in Insight Cloud.

For admins — manage workspace Wallet funds, purchasing permissions, and spend visibility.