Why Analysts love marimo notebooks

Business analysts face a unique challenge: extracting insights quickly while juggling multiple tools and technical constraints. You need to query databases, create views, and deliver results fast. Traditional workflows force you to switch between SQL clients, Python, and various charting tools. Each context switch slows down your analysis and increases the chance of errors creeping into your work.

marimo notebooks transform the analyst experience by unifying SQL querying, visualization, and AI-assisted coding in a single environment.

Great SQL support

Most analysts live in SQL, but traditional notebook environments treat SQL as an afterthought. You’re forced to write queries in string literals without syntax highlighting, autocomplete, or proper error checking. Managing database connections becomes a recurring headache, and sharing queries with teammates requires copying and pasting code snippets.

marimo provides first-class SQL support with full syntax highlighting, intelligent autocomplete, and seamless database connectivity. Write queries directly in dedicated SQL cells, connect to multiple databases simultaneously, and see results instantly formatted as interactive tables. Your SQL queries become living, shareable components that teammates can understand and modify without diving into Python syntax.

LLMs that can write SQL/Python for you

Even experienced analysts face moments when the right SQL query or Python transformation feels just out of reach. Traditional approaches require searching documentation, copying examples from Stack Overflow, or asking colleagues for help. This research overhead interrupts your analytical flow and can turn simple tasks into time-consuming obstacles.

marimo integrates AI assistance directly into your workflow, providing contextual code suggestions and generating SQL queries based on the known schema of your data sources. Describe what you want to accomplish, and the AI writes the code while you focus on the analytical questions. It can even be used to generate visualisations to go along with your tables.

Accelerating analyst impact

marimo represents a fundamental shift toward analyst-centric tools that prioritize speed, simplicity, and intelligence. By combining SQL fluency, visualization excellence, and AI assistance, marimo eliminates the technical barriers that traditionally slow down analyst workflows and limit insight generation. It also serves as a perfect format to share across professions within an organisation. An analyst can pass their analysis to a data scientist with ease because every marimo notebook is a self-contained Python script that can install it’s own requirements.

marimo offers a path toward faster, more reliable, and more impactful analysis. It keeps analyst productivity in mind and is built on modern tools that amplify human insight rather than demanding technical expertise across developer tools.