Open and adaptive context for agents, apps and BI
Centralize business definitions you can trust across all your tools and use cases.
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Reduce hallucinations, build trust
Authoritative business context from user-defined semantics and automatically learned knowledge, giving agents, apps and BI one trusted source.
Any data source
Create certified business concepts and KPIs from any data source: databases, catalogs, business apps and workspace assets like notebooks, dashboards, files and models. Organized by business domains and built on your existing governance policies.
Continuously learned
Power AI agents and humans with an adaptive semantic layer that learns from user interactions, usage signals, lineage and existing knowledge sources. Keep your semantics up to date without any upfront manual modeling for accurate answers.
Open and reusable
Access and share your business semantics across tools and use cases. With SQL, API and MCP-addressable semantics, you can easily reuse them with your favorite BI tools, notebooks and AI agents, all without vendor lock-in.
Stop debating the numbers
Bring centralized semantics into every decision.Power agents, apps and BI with enterprise context built from user-defined semantics in Unity Catalog and automatically learned knowledge from disparate sources.
A continuously improving, automatically inferred knowledge graph of business terms, entities and KPIs that grounds Genie answers and actions.
Fuel context from any source, including databases, catalogs, business apps and workspace assets like notebooks, dashboards and models.
Build measures, dimensions and relationships mapped to your KPIs, materialized for performance. Author with AI agents and query from SQL, MCP or BI tools.
Define authoritative concepts, terms and taxonomies that help agents and people understand your business, maintained with agentic authoring and drift detection.
Organize data and AI assets into business-aligned groups, giving agents scoped context with certification and stewardship signals for what’s reliable.
Compose semantics on your data, and governance policies apply automatically with lineage, access controls and usage insights out of the box.
Fully open source, with AI-powered migrations to help bring your existing definitions over quickly. OSI-compliant, with no lock-in.
Query your semantics from anywhere through MCP, SQL and API across your favorite BI tools, Genie and AI/BI dashboards, all with no vendor lock-in.
Bringing consistency and context to every decision
Empower everyone to benefit from trusted insights
Empower BI tools, such as AI/BI Dashboards or external BI tools, and exploratory data analysis with governed metrics and definitions so every chart, dashboard and notebook reflects a trusted source of truth.
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