Reseed

Skip the Chaos.

Excel and Google Sheets to Snowflake Legacy Excel to Snowflake Infrastructure Snowflake Data Warehouse

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Spreadsheets & Snowflake

Enable business-users, free-up data teams, and simplify infrastructure.

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๐Ÿ’ก Use Cases in Action

๐Ÿš€ Snowflake Accelerator

If you're launching a new Snowflake project or data product, get and test the outcome faster with Reseed. Even if you have the resources and maturity to fully automate data pipelines, Reseed gives you a parallel path where business analysts and analytics engineers can iterate on data formats, transformations, dashboards, and reports while Data Engineers and Cloud Engineers build the automation infrastructure.

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๐Ÿงฉ Data Gaps

Almost every business has at least one dataset that doesn't come from your enterprise systems. Sometimes referred to as "The Sheryl File" or "Mike's Spreadsheet", these files contain the real-world context that ties systems together or captures insights that never made it into an ERP or CRM, but are critical to your analytics or AI workflows. Reseed lets you capture and control these datasets in Snowflake.

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๐Ÿ•ธ๏ธ Data Mesh

Empower teams to own the data they createโ€”without sacrificing quality, consistency, or governance. Reseed gives each domain the ability to publish and maintain its own Snowflake-ready datasets while ensuring organization-wide standards are automatically enforced.

Domains can upload and manage their source files, validate them against shared rules, and deliver clean, governed outputs into secure Snowflake locations. Central teams define the expectations; local teams handle the delivery; Reseed keeps everyone aligned.

The result is a practical, operational Data Mesh: distributed ownership with centralized visibility, consistent quality, and instant availability for analytics, apps, and downstream systemsโ€”all without building pipelines or maintaining infrastructure.

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๐Ÿ”„ Reverse ETL

Deliver clean, governed data back to the people who need it. Push prepared files to secure, read-only stage locations where teams can browse, read, and download the latest approved datasetsโ€”without relying on email attachments or shared drives.

Perfect for distributing approved budgets, official contact lists, product offerings, internal service catalogs, or any reference data that must stay consistent across departments. With Reseed, everything is delivered inside Snowflake's secure perimeter, with fine-grained access controls ensuring only authorized users can access the datasets.

And because these files can be generated directly by your existing transformations running in Snowflake, they're always fresh and effortless to keep currentโ€”making Reverse ETL a simple extension of the pipelines you already maintain.

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๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Overrides and Exclusions

Sometimes data needs correction โ€” fast.

Reseed empowers authorized users to safely supplement, override, or exclude specific records from your data sources, on the ad-hoc and unpredictable schedules that real-world operations demand.

Every change is validated, logged, and governed inside Snowflake, giving you agility without sacrificing control.

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๐Ÿงฐ Pipeline Fallback

Even the most reliable pipelines experience interruptions. With Reseed, data engineers and analysts have a built-in safety valve: when an automated flow is delayed or fails, authorized users can manually upload the data and keep operations moving.

Reseed gives you more options, more control, less downtime, and less frantic troubleshooting.

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๐Ÿ” Row-Level Security

Snowflake's row-level security often relies on lookup tables that map users or roles to an attribute such as branch, department, or region that they have access to. Managing these mappings typically requires writing INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE SQL statements โ€” work that demands precision but frequently interrupts engineers and administrators who could be focused on higher-impact initiatives.

With Reseed, system administrators can simply upload a validated seed file to refresh security mappings. Each update is controlled, auditable, and completed in seconds. No writing SQL to production systems, and you can even retain, review, rollback-to, and reuse prior versions.

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๐Ÿ’ผ Distributed Spreadsheet Data Collection

(e.g., Budget Requests, Equipment Audits, Contact or Address Verification)

You don't need a new SaaS tool for every workflow. Reseed lets you collect data from departments or stakeholders using the tools they already know โ€” like Excel or Google Sheets.

For example, in a budget request process, simply define a file structure such as Fiscal Year, Account, Request, and Justification, then invite staff to upload their files directly. Each participant only sees their own dataset, while administrators can view and manage all submissions.

No email attachments. No extra subscriptions. No pipelines to maintain. The data is born in Snowflake โ€” validated, organized, and ready for downstream workflows and analysis. If you're comparing approaches, you can also review the full Excel to Snowflake guide.

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โ˜๏ธ SaaS Data Exchange

When your SaaS product relies on customer-supplied data, implementation can slow to a crawl while teams exchange spreadsheets and fix formatting issues. Reseed eliminates that friction by providing secure, self-service access to a dedicated seed folder inside Snowflake โ€” for your implementation team or even for customers directly.

Participants upload and validate their datasets instantly with automatic schema checks and full audit visibility. No email attachments, no version confusion, no rework loops. What once took days now happens in seconds.

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๐Ÿธ Tech Leapfrog

Not every organization needs a full cloud or data engineering team to benefit from Snowflake and start their analytics and AI journey. Reseed lets small businesses and lean data teams leapfrog traditional cloud setup and get straight to loading data and seeing results.

Keep the tools your staff already know โ€” spreadsheets โ€” while Reseed handles validation, structure, and loading behind the scenes in Snowflake. Analytics and AI without the infrastructure.

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And many more!

๐Ÿ’ธ Costs (and frustrations) You Avoid

  • No on-premise infrastructure: no more shared-drives, servers, scripts, schedulers pushing on-prem data to the cloud
  • No on-premise IT frustrations: Who wrote this script? Why is it in C#? Is it in Github? How does it login to AWS? What if passwords change? Should we rotate passwords? What is the upload schedule? What if the file needs to change off-schedule? Do we have static IPs? Is it patched?
  • No cloud infrastructure: no S3 buckets, identity access management, VPCs, key management, posture management, infrastructure as code, monitoring and alerting, failover, load balancing, dev vs. prod environments, or cloud backup setup.
  • No cloud IT frustrations: Who has access? Can we do CI/CD? How did the VPC change? It was through Terraform, right? We can rollback, right? Why didn't it send an alert? I thought we were PCI compliant. Another cloud engineer is leaving? I thought we dropped the data after moving it? How come no one told me there's a new version? Now we need Airflow? All this, just to move a file?
  • No delays: No delays learning that there were issues with a data file. No delays iterating from new data source to new data product.
  • No excuses: No more "They're still working on it."

Each of these costs money, time, and credibility. Reseed replaces them with a single, flexible, but governed tool that lives inside Snowflake and doesn't expand your security perimeter. It doesn't even expand your "accounts payable perimeter" as you can see and pay for Reseed on your regular Snowflake bill.

FAQ

The answer is YES!!

  • โœ“ Can I validate and upload files directly to Snowflake without cloud infrastructure, pipelines, or burdening my central data team? YES!
  • โœ“ Can I distribute the use and management of these file upload patterns ("Seeds") to users throughout my organization without sacrificing data quality, security, or control?YES!
  • โœ“ Can employees that don't know SQL or Snowflake best practices safely upload files to Snowflake using Reseed?YES!
  • โœ“ Can I create as many data sources as I want in Reseed for all manner of business needs?YES!
  • โœ“ If I don't like it, can I delete the Reseed Native App and keep all uploaded files and not even have to export or move them or talk to you?YES!
  • โœ“ Can I upload specific Excel tabs or worksheets into Snowflake? YES!
  • โœ“ Can I tell Reseed to import data from the cell range of B:12 to D:55 on worksheet "Budget Final Final V2"? YES!
  • โœ“ Do all uploaded files get saved as CSV files inside my Snowflake account regardless of if they came in as XLSX or CSV so that my analytics team can easily use them?YES!
  • โœ“ After I upload a file, can I still download the data as either CSV or Excel from Reseed if I wanted to? YES!
  • โœ“ There are a lot of ways to use Reseed. Can I permission users to be able to create data sources and define rules themselves?YES!
  • โœ“ Can Reseed automatically configure rules for hundreds of columns on a single file just by uploading a sample?YES!
  • โœ“ Can users see instant feedback on any issues with attempted uploads? YES!
  • โœ“ What if there are MANY problems with an upload attempt? Will Reseed show me what all of them are in an organized report that I could download and use to fix my data at my own pace? YES!
  • โœ“ Does Reseed work entirely inside Snowflake without expanding my security perimeter? YES!
  • โœ“ Can I see an event log of every upload and file change? YES!
  • โœ“ Can I add complex column rules like: "this field must be a positive integer", or "this field must begin with 'invoice'", or set standards on date, time, and currency formats? YES!
  • โœ“ Can I create complex role-hierarchies and assign users to multiple roles, allowing me to reflect my organization's complexity? YES!
  • โœ“ Could I use this for processes like budgeting where I need to distribute file uploads to multiple users or departments without them seeing each other's data, while my central finance team can see all? YES!
  • โœ“ Can I be sure that imports come only from authorized networks since Reseed is inside my secure Snowflake perimeter? YES!
  • โœ“ Can I be sure that Reseed can't route or save data outside of my Snowflake account? YES! (that's what's great about Snowflake Native Apps)
  • โœ“ Could I call this a data mesh? YES!
  • โœ“ Can I invite as many users as I want to Reseed with no added cost? YES!
  • โœ“ If Reseed lets me avoid a few hours off one of my projects, does it more than pay for itself? YES!
  • โœ“ If it means the central data team can focus on innovation and strategic builds, instead of support, does Reseed more than pay for itself? YES!