Replit Acquires Atta to Power AI-Generated Business Charts
ReplitReplit acquired Atta, a startup building presentation-ready charting and data-app tools, and immediately shipped its first result: paid users can now ask Agent to analyze connected or uploaded data and generate interactive charts directly inside chat, no SQL required. The charting engine automatically selects appropriate visualizations, including waterfall charts and retention heatmaps, and works alongside Replit's existing BigQuery, Databricks, and Snowflake connectors. Atta's co-founders, Omar Shaik and Amine Ben Khalifa, are joining Replit as the acquisition pushes the company beyond app-building into business intelligence and data analysis.
Key Takeaways
- Replit acquired Atta, a startup specializing in presentation-ready business charts and data apps, marking a strategic move into business intelligence.
- Both Atta co-founders are joining Replit: CEO Omar Shaik, a former Apple Vision Pro engineer, and chief AI scientist Amine Ben Khalifa, a former Adobe and Apple machine learning researcher.
- The first integrated feature shipped immediately: paid users can generate interactive charts inside Agent chat using plain English instead of SQL.
- The charting engine picks visualizations automatically, including waterfall charts for revenue and heatmaps for retention analysis.
- The feature works with existing data connectors, including BigQuery, Databricks, and Snowflake, so no separate BI tool setup is required.
- The deal signals Replit's expansion beyond coding into data analysis and business reporting, a new frontier for the company's Agent platform.
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Replit's First Acquisition Brings Business Intelligence to Agent Chat
Replit announced the acquisition of Atta, a startup focused on turning raw data into presentation-ready charts and data apps, and used the deal to launch its first integrated feature the same day: Agent can now generate interactive business charts directly inside a chat conversation.
From Cold Email to Acquisition
The deal traces back two years, when Atta co-founder and CEO Omar Shaik first emailed Replit CEO Amjad Masad to ask him to invest in the young company. Replit CTO Michele Catasta and Masad later saw an early demo of Atta's charts and data apps running on an "infinite canvas" interface, which led to acquisition talks rather than an investment. Both Atta co-founders are joining Replit: Shaik, a former early engineer on Apple Vision Pro, and Amine Ben Khalifa, Atta's chief AI scientist, who holds a PhD in machine learning and previously worked at Adobe and Apple. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
What Ships Today
For paid Replit plans, Agent can now analyze data that is either uploaded directly or pulled in through Replit's existing BigQuery, Databricks, and Snowflake connectors, then generate a chart described in plain English rather than written as SQL or chart-library code. The underlying engine automatically picks an appropriate chart type for the data at hand, such as a waterfall chart for revenue breakdowns or a heatmap for retention analysis, and produces output with readable labels, responsive layouts, and consistent styling out of the box.
Why It Matters
Turning a query result into a polished, presentation-ready chart has historically required more than a basic charting library call: labels need to be readable, layouts need to respond to different screen sizes, and styling needs to stay consistent across a project. By folding Atta's purpose-built charting technology directly into Agent, Replit addresses that gap without requiring users to bring in a separate business-intelligence tool. The move also marks a strategic expansion for Replit, extending its ambitions from building software into the adjacent territory of business data analysis and reporting, where teams query operational data, explain what changed, and present findings to stakeholders.