Samskara is now in early access

Over the last several months we’ve built a Python notebook IDE, a SQL Workbench, a cron-based scheduler, SQL-driven dashboards, a DuckDB + Iceberg lakehouse we call ArrowLake, an AI copilot that actually understands our own APIs, governance and RBAC, Git integration, and a Unified Data Explorer that ties it all together. We’ve run all of it end-to-end on real projects — weather data, public health datasets, the Northwind sample database rebuilt as a real pipeline.

That’s enough to stop calling it an idea.

Samskara is the self-hosted data engineering platform for teams that have outgrown scripts but don’t need the complexity and cost of a large cloud data platform.

If you’re a 20–200 person team and you’ve ever said any of the following, this is for you:

• “I don’t want to maintain Spark clusters.”
• “I don’t need Databricks for a company our size.”
• “My team just wants notebooks and SQL.”
• “I need governance, but I don’t need an enterprise sales cycle to get it.”

We’re opening up early access starting today. Sign up free and we’ll get you running against your own data.

Over the coming weeks we’ll be writing about the decisions behind the platform — starting with why we built ArrowLake instead of just picking a warehouse off the shelf.