Overview
Data governance means keeping two sides of your metadata in sync: the business vocabulary your organization agrees on, and the technical assets where data actually lives. Stewards spend much of their time defining glossary terms, registering tables and columns, linking the two together, and checking that descriptions, owners, and lineage stay up to date.
The Blindata AI Assistant is a chat panel built into the Blindata UI that helps you do this work in plain language. Open it from the sparkle icon in the toolbar; no separate app required. Ask it to create and edit glossary terms, register or update catalog entries, link columns to business definitions, and trace lineage across your data landscape. It walks you through the same operations available elsewhere in Blindata, in a conversational format that suits drafting, reviewing, and iterating step by step.
Everything the assistant proposes is based on your organization’s real metadata. It respects the same access controls you have in the rest of the platform, does not invent asset names or IDs, and shows clickable links to open assets directly in Blindata so you can verify suggestions before anything is saved.
Create & edit glossaries
Draft concepts, attributes, namespaces, and relationships in the Business Glossary, or review and deduplicate existing terms.
Update the Data Catalog
Register systems, tables, and columns. Improve descriptions, visibility notes, and stewardship metadata at scale.
Link business to technical
Connect catalog assets to Business Glossary meaning through semantic linking, so columns like customer_id point to the Customer concept your business already defined.
Explore & trace lineage
Understand where data comes from, how it flows, and when metadata supports it, get SQL based on verified table and column names.
Knows what you are viewing
Browse a concept, table, column, or data product and the assistant picks up that context automatically — no need to paste names or IDs.
One-click quick actions
Contextual shortcuts appear above the input — explain a table, suggest glossary links, analyze lineage, draft from a document, and more — tailored to the page you are on.
Features
The assistant is designed to speed up drafting and discovery, not to bypass your judgment. When it suggests creates or updates, it shows clickable resource cards for the assets involved — glossary terms, catalog tables and columns, data products, systems, and more. Nothing is applied silently; you remain in control of what gets saved.
Pick up past conversations from the history panel, and check daily token usage from the toolbar when you need to see how much capacity you have left.
Context, quick actions, and attachments
Open the assistant while you browse Blindata and it already knows which screen you are on. A context chip in the input shows the active resource, so you can ask about this concept or table without retyping names. When you move to another page, context updates with you. Use @ to mention other resources when you need to steer the conversation beyond the current page.
Quick actions appear just above the input on glossary, catalog, and data product pages. Each action starts a focused stewardship task with one click — for example explore a concept, link it to tables, or model a namespace from a document.
You can also attach files to a message so the assistant can use material you already have on hand: a policy PDF, a CSV export of column names, a data model diagram, or a short specification. Attach the source file, tell the assistant what to do with it, and review the drafts it produces in the same conversation.
The assistant replies in English or Italian, matching the language you write in. For step-by-step instructions on the interface, chat history, and usage limits, see the Blindata AI Assistant guide in the Help Center.
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Assistant vs. external AI tools
The Blindata AI Assistant is the in-app chat for day-to-day governance, ideal for data stewards, catalog owners, and business users who want to work in natural language without leaving Blindata.
Semantic Search and the Context Layer for Your Agents extend the same governed metadata to search and to external AI clients. They share the same platform access; the difference is where you start the conversation.