Ask-a-Metric is a WhatsApp-based AI data analyst that uses LLMs to answer SQL database queries, facilitating data access for decision-making in the development sector (GitHub). Initially, we used a simple pipeline for rapid feedback but faced challenges in accuracy and building it for scale. We tested an agentic approach with CrewAI, improving accuracy but ending up with high costs and slow response speeds. We used these results to develop a pseudo-agent pipeline that combines the best of bot...| Tech notes