Conversational AI
Atlan's conversational AI lets you explore assets, trace lineage, and look up business terms using natural language—without navigating through asset pages or filters. It draws on your catalog's metadata, lineage relationships, glossary definitions, data quality signals, and ownership information to return answers grounded in your actual data estate.
Key capabilities
Find and understand assets
Search across tables, columns, dashboards, and schemas using natural language to locate assets and retrieve information about their content, definitions, and usage.
Explore lineage and assess impact
Trace upstream sources and downstream consumers to understand dependencies and evaluate the impact of changes before making them.
Summarize metadata
Retrieve summaries of table descriptions, column definitions, glossary terms, and data quality signals across your catalog.
Refine answers conversationally
Ask follow-up questions, add constraints, and iterate on responses within a single session. Context is maintained throughout the conversation.
Verify with source citations
Each response includes citations linked to the actual assets in your catalog. Click any citation to open the source asset and verify the information.
Find data owners and experts
Identify data owners, stewards, and subject matter experts using ownership metadata from your catalog.
Access from your existing tools
Use conversational AI inside Atlan, in tools like Snowflake and Databricks via the Atlan Chrome extension, or in Slack and Microsoft Teams.
Check data quality and freshness
Check refresh timestamps, data quality flags, and staleness signals before you trust a dataset for a report or decision.
Context-aware answers
Answers adapt to the page, filters, and assets you are working with. Ask about assets on a filtered view and conversational AI respects that scope.
Looking for step-by-step discovery how-tos? See Search with conversational AI. Includes example queries, supported surfaces, and tips for better results.
Get started
Follow this process to enable conversational AI and start using it across your organization.
Set up Conversational AI
Enable conversational AI in Labs and configure behavior for your organization.
Configure in Slack or Microsoft Teams
After your collaboration app is integrated with Atlan, you can ask questions in channels where the app is added.
Start asking questions
Ask questions from the chat panel or asset pages to explore data, understand impact, and work with business concepts.