Most enterprise work is ultimately data work, but general AI assistants rarely have enough business context to produce reliable answers or useful actions, while business users still lose time jumping between dashboards, apps, and fragmented systems, and leaders still hesitate to scale AI when governance is inconsistent. Genie is Databricks’ answer to that problem: a Databricks-native autonomous AI coworker that works from your company’s governed data, business semantics, and trusted assets, so users can ask questions, get insights, and take action through a single interface, with permissions, auditability, and policy controls carried through from the underlying platform.

Any team that relies on data to make decisions: sales, finance, marketing, operations, supply chain and more. Sales tracks pipeline and quota attainment. Finance queries budget variances and margins. Marketing analyzes campaign performance. Supply chain interrogates inventory and supplier data. If your team makes decisions with data, Genie is for you.

No. Business users do not need to know how to write code to use Genie. They interact with Genie primarily through natural-language chat and point-and-click experiences to ask questions, explore dashboards, and run apps, while Genie handles generating SQL or code behind the scenes when needed.

Ask Genie anything, from complex questions like “What customer segments are most profitable?” or “How can we reduce order cancellations this season?” to everyday lookups like “Which campaigns performed best in 2025?” Genie builds a research plan, runs multiple queries, and returns a cited report with visualizations. Build on any answer with follow-ups or schedule recurring queries like, “Send me a daily briefing of new customer reviews.”

Genie’s answers are grounded in your own governed data and knowledge, not a generic model. Genie continuously extracts and updates business knowledge from assets like notebooks and dashboards, ranks them by how authoritative and widely used they are, and only serves information that respects the original permissions, so nothing leaks to the wrong people. This architecture lets Genie deliver more accurate and faster answers.

Genie connects natively to your Databricks Lakehouse, and to the tools your teams already live in — Slack, Jira, Google Drive, Salesforce and more. With over 100 connectors and MCP support, it reaches across your SaaS apps, operational systems, documents and dashboards. Ask a question in Slack, get an answer grounded in your lakehouse. Trigger a Jira update from a Genie insight. All connections are managed through Unity AI Gateway so access stays governed end to end.

Governance is built into Genie from the ground up via Unity Catalog. Permissions are enforced at the data level, so users only see what they’re authorized to see. Every action Genie takes is scoped, auditable and compliant by design. This makes it possible to move from small AI experiments to large-scale trusted deployment with confidence.

Yes. Genie is available as a native app on both iOS and Android. The full Genie experience — including dashboards, apps and chat — is available on your phone, powered by the same governed data and logic.

To get started, your admin can then enable Automatic Identity Management (AIM) and business user access to Databricks. See documentation for Consumer Access (Azure | AWS | GCP). If you’re not a Databricks customer, your organization can sign up for a free trial.