Guides

Getting Started

Getting started with Teela is free and easy, requiring only an email address.

David Baxter

January 29, 2026

1 Min Read

Ready to take Teela out for a spin? Awesome. Here is what you can expect.

Getting started is easy and free. All you need is an email address - no credit card required.

Once your account is  created, you will see a complete dashboard along with some sample folders with DataClips that allow you to poke around and see Teela in action without connecting to your data. 

Ready to connect your own data? Simply link your database to start your 14-day free trial. You have all the features of your plan at your disposal so you can really get a feel for how Teela will fit into your business.

Not sure how to connect your database? No problem, Teela will send an email to your coworker that will contain everything they need to get your connection set up successfully.

Now that you understand the flow, let’s define a bit of vocab.

Query:

Technically this is just a question, but in Teela it is all about getting the exact question that you want. “Show me the top 10 customers based on revenue in the last 3 months”. That is a great question, but that isn’t the end. 

Teela returns you a nice table, but maybe it has too many columns, or is showing you data you don’t care about? Now it is time to refine it. “Remove XYZ column” or “change it to 6 months” or “show me customers only in the Northeast”. The true magic isn’t in the first question. It is working through the query in your own words until you get the exact results you want. That is what we mean by a query in Teela.

DataClip:

So you have your query ready to go. Now what? Now you save it as a DataClip. You can save it just for you, or you can share it with your team. You can even schedule it to email you every Thursday. DataClips are the backbone of Teela. The cool part is that once saved, DataClips are regenerated whenever you need and they are super fast.

Dashboard:

Lots of apps have dashboards, but Teela lets you build one that is completely unique to you. All you have to do is create the perfect DataClip and then call it up to be part of your Dashboard. It can be a table, a single number, or a beautiful chart. You can make it small or huge. You can even set it up to alert you if the results change too much. Customizability is the name of the game.