Hop into the Pond

Our mission is to make world-class data infrastructure and tooling available, affordable, and easy-to-use for anyone in the progressive space.

While we love BigQuery and could spend all day in the Google Cloud Platform UI and CLI tools, we know not everyone enjoys navigating endless menus to find BigQuery or Looker Studio. Enter: Pond and The Hopper.

The Hopper is CTA’s chrome extension, built to help our users easily find their CTA PAD project from their Chrome browser. This extension has evolved over time; it now comes pre-installed when you log into Chrome with your PAD account and you can find it on the Chrome Web Store. And in March 2023, watch for the debut of a new UI!

We’ve also been hard at work developing Pond, our new web app. Pond will give both Chrome and non-Chrome users a place to find their BigQuery projects quickly. At launch, you can also authorize CTA to sync your data from Facebook Marketing, Pages, and LinkedIn into BigQuery.

We focus on these sorts of tools because they provide a solution to the big problems facing our users. And that’s our core mission.

If you’re interested in learning more about how we engineer internal authentication, access, logging, and everything else we do to keep our users secure and productive, check out this case study written about CTA by one of our favorite tools, Airplane.