Introducing AskCollate: Talk with Your Data for Faster, Smarter Work
Most data teams still spend hours chasing tables, fixing quality issues, or verifying reports, rather than analyzing data to drive business impact. The problem isn’t the value of data. It’s that it’s hard to find, understand, and trust across scattered tools and complex UIs.
AskCollate changes that.
AskCollate brings conversational AI to your data stack so you can manage, understand, and govern data across every system — simply by asking.
Instead of bouncing between dashboards and other tools, you just ask:
“Show me failed data quality tests.”
“What were total sales in Europe last quarter?”
“Find any sensitive data, including PII, and tag them accordingly.”
AskCollate does the work for you. It executes, explains, and documents each action in the data workflow automatically and securely, while respecting your access controls and human-in-the-loop approvals.
Speed up work for every data practitioner across data stewards, analysts, engineers, or leaders. No more detective work. Just data that works for you.
Manage, Understand, and Govern Data through Simple Language
AskCollate helps every data role move faster and stay in control. It does this through three core capabilities that make data work simpler, smarter, and more secure:
Manage: Automate repetitive tasks like running data quality tests, tagging data assets, tracking lineage, and setting alerts — all through simple prompts.
Understand: Get contextual answers, charts, and lineage explanations without needing to write SQL by hand (but with visibility into the data used and the SQL generated based on your question).
Govern: Keep data compliant, secure, and trustworthy automatically, with full visibility into every action.
Instead of managing tools, teams can now simply talk with their data and let AskCollate handle the rest.
How AskCollate Works
Built on Collate’s OpenMetadata foundation, AskCollate turns metadata into an intelligent, conversational layer that unifies data discovery, lineage, observability, and governance. This brings the value of metadata to life across data teams with:
Context-aware conversations: AskCollate knows that “customer,” “client,” and “account” can mean the same thing. AskCollate’s unified metadata graph provides that semantic understanding and context across business and technical terms.
Cross-System Intelligence: Works across 100+ connectors spanning databases, BI tools, and data pipelines.
Secure by Design: Every action respects your existing role-based access controls
Transparency: Each answer includes data lineage, how the answer was derived, glossary terms, and ownership for full transparency.
Visual Interaction: See charts, tables, and lineage so you can visually explore and refine instantly.
AskCollate translates intent into action. It generates the right query, retrieves the data, and explains the result while keeping governance and observability intact at every step.
Why AskCollate is Different
Plenty of tools provide chat bots for quick insights from data. AskCollate goes further into conversational data management. That means you don’t just get answers, but that data teams can get work done.
Manage, not just monitor. AskCollate moves beyond data analysis and understanding. It lets you manage it directly. You can tag assets, update glossary terms, fix lineage, create quality tests, trigger alerts, and document changes. And it does this in context with interactive data lineage maps, data-health views, and dashboards you can act on immediately inside Collate or Slack.
Choose your own LLM. AskCollate gives organizations flexibility to use the model provider they trust (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini) so that data never leaves environments that meet their privacy, security, or compliance standards.
Enterprise guardrails by default. Every conversational action respects your existing access controls and approvals, with full audit logs. You always know who changed what, when, and why — with complete lineage and governance traceability.
It’s the power of and. AskCollate delivers trusted answers and the ability to take action on them. You can explore data and manage its quality. Govern assets and understand their impact. All in the same natural, conversational flow of your data work.
That’s what makes AskCollate more than a chat interface. It’s the connective tissue that unifies understanding and execution across data teams.
Transforming How Data Teams Work
AskCollate removes the busywork between people and data. Analysts get insights faster. Data stewards maintain consistency more easily. Data engineers can focus on systems instead of debugging. And leaders finally trust the numbers they see.
It’s the simplest way to make data useful, explainable, and self-governing—powered by the open standards that make Collate and OpenMetadata trusted across the industry.
Let’s see how each role benefits.
For Data Stewards: Keep Definitions and Governance in Sync
Marcus, a data steward, needs to ensure business terms and data assets stay aligned across the organization for new eco-friendly home products that are being introduced.
With AskCollate, he asks:
“Do we have any revenue definitions?” or “Which glossaries do we have available?”
AskCollate checks existing glossaries, finds gaps, and recommends creating a new “Total Sales Amount” revenue term for home goods — complete with definitions, properties, and governance controls.
Next, to ensure people can find the right data assets associated with this term he simply asks:
“Find tables in Snowflake that match this definition.”
AskCollate surfaces candidates, like the order_items table. Marcus reviews and says:
“Tag this table with the Revenue term.”
AskCollate applies the update, keeping data definitions, assets, and governance automatically in sync.
See how AskCollate turns glossary creation and governance into a simple, conversational task:
For Data Engineers: Fix Issues before They Impact Reports
Priya, a data engineer, notices anomalies in the customer dashboard for eco-friendly product sales. Normally, diagnosing and fixing this would mean jumping between tools such as tracing lineage in Snowflake, exporting profiling stats, reviewing dashboards for anomalies, and writing separate SQL tests to validate fixes.
With AskCollate, she starts by simply asking:
“Show me the tables used to generate the customer report dashboard.”
AskCollate maps the full lineage, highlighting the Customer360 and Products tables feeding the report.
Next, she asks:
“Check for anomalies or invalid values in these tables.”
AskCollate profiles the data, finds two negative unit prices in the products table, and flags them as likely data-entry errors.
Priya follows up:
“Create quality tests for this table.”
AskCollate generates validation rules automatically for completeness, uniqueness, and range checks, ensuring the issue won’t recur.
What once took hours across multiple tools now happens in a few guided prompts, providing root cause anomaly detection to remediation through natural language using AskCollate.
See how AskCollate helps quickly trace data flows and implement data quality checks:
For Analysts: Get Trusted Answers, Instantly
Sarah, a data analyst, is preparing a board presentation on performance of a new line of eco-friendly products. Usually, that means searching for data across systems, using BI tools or writing SQL, and validating results with data stewards or engineers.
With AskCollate, she just asks:
“Compare revenue share for eco-friendly vs. non-eco products.”
Behind the scenes, AskCollate interprets her question, understands that “revenue” relates to key metrics in the core_sales and customers domains, and automatically finds the best-fit data sources. This includes data assets that are Tier 1, Gold-certified, and most used across the organization.
Instead of guessing which “sales” or “customers” table to trust, Sarah gets an answer derived from the highest-quality, governed data, complete with lineage, definitions, and ownership. AskCollate uses metadata context to find the right data, translates the request into SQL, runs it securely, and returns the answer. Sarah can then refine the results by asking to create a bar chart, change colors, or highlight a quick insight— all in one conversation.
AskCollate combines semantic understanding with intelligent ranking so analysts start with the right data, not just matching keywords. This gives Sarah what she needs quickly, spending less time chasing data and more time using it.
See how AskCollate helps analysts find meaning in data through simple conversation:
For Leaders: See Data Health Where You Work
Data leaders don’t need yet another dashboard. They need clarity on the single source of truth and trusted information.
AskCollate delivers this directly in Slack with:
Tier 1 asset summaries and ownership
Data-health reports
Quality-test coverage
Key KPI trends
Mohit, a data leader, asks:
“Summarize the performance of our eco-friendly home goods.”
AskCollate retrieves results and confirms which tables were used. He follows up:
“Show me the data health and ownership for these assets.”
AskCollate reports passing quality tests, ownership by the Data Platform team, and reliable coverage across accuracy, completeness, and uniqueness.
Finally, he asks:
“Prepare a short summary for the board meeting.”
AskCollate generates a concise, trusted update — complete with performance metrics, data health, and owners — all within Slack. Now, visibility doesn’t require logging into another platform. It’s as simple as a conversation with an agent who understands the data and your business.
See conversational insights where you work with AskCollate’s Slack integration:
Availability
AskCollate is now in early preview within the Collate platform. To request access, contact your Collate account team.
You bring the questions — AskCollate handles the work. This is data management and analytics guided by people, delivered with AI that understands the rich context of your metadata for trusted results.
Ready to talk with your data?
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