Context Agents

The team that makes your data AI-ready.

Documentation has been an unsolved problem for years, and AI needs more documentation than humans can write. Context Agents are the AI teammates that write, maintain, and continuously evolve the documentation your team never did.

Scout
SCOUT
Ranks assets by what your team actually queries.
SUPERPOWERS
🔍Query Analysis
Usage Signals
🛡️Asset Ranking
Scribe
WORKS BEST WITH
Scribe to prioritize what gets described first
Meet your team

87% of customers say Context Agents write higher quality content than humans.

"We were stunned and perplexed by the quality of the content. How could the agents create such high-quality context from lineage, SQL, and dbt logic? It shows how much business information is hidden in metadata that we can't see with human eyes. But agents consume it all and organize it."

Kenneth Jebjerg

Head of Data Engineering

"The output shifted from solid generic descriptions to something that felt like it had been written by someone who understands our business. That's the moment I stopped thinking about this as a time-saving tool and started seeing it as a strategic capability."

Izabela Wilczynska

Data Governance Manager, PayU

"Without this context we would have spent months/years manually updating the metadata required for these efforts and would not let us move at the speed we can now."

Bernie Daley

Director of Data Management, Nelnet Servicing, LLC

THE JOURNEY

Data catalogs were built for humans... who never documented them.

The First Copilot

In 2023, we launched the first AI documentation agent.

We called it Atlan AI. It could write descriptions automatically, but accuracy was at 75%. Good enough to show the vision, but not good enough to replace human work.

We Hit a Wall

We realized AI accuracy at scale needed a rebuild.

To be accurate, AI needed to access rich signals like lineage, query history, usage patterns, relationships between assets. Atlan stored all of that, but AI couldn't use it. So we rebuilt the foundation: the Context Lakehouse.

The New Reality

Today, context agents outperform humans on quality.

Customers are telling us the agent-written descriptions are more accurate and more complete than what their teams were producing manually.

Acceptance Rate Today90%+
AI Descriptions Applied350K+

Start your AI-readiness sprint.

Learn how Context Agents can get you to AI readiness in 30 days.

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HOW IT WORKS

The teammates that solve the biggest blocker to context: documentation.

Agents that read raw metadata to build foundational context.

Scout
Ranks assets by usage intelligence — surfaces what your team queries most.
Stage 1 · Foundational
⚡ Purpose
Ranks assets by usage intelligence — surfaces what your team queries most.
Task Plan
Scan SQL query historyacross all teams and use cases
Identify top-queried assetsby team, frequency, and function
Rank by usage scoreand assign enrichment priority
Revenue Assets
Product Analytics
Customer Data
Revenue assets · ranked by usage
5 assets
finance.revenue_table
847 queriesGold Layer ↑
finance.arr_cohort
693 queries
billing.invoices
541 queries
finance.mrr_breakdown
418 queries
finance.ltv_by_segment
263 queries

Agents that synthesize foundational context into structured business knowledge.

Doc
Turns scattered signals into the README dataset your team never wrote.
Stage 2 · Derived
README generated
finance.arr_cohort · README.md
auto-generated
ARR Cohort
Overview
Tracks annual recurring revenue cohorts by customer segment and contract start date. Lineage confirmed: upstream from billing.subscriptions, downstream to exec.revenue_dashboard.
Source Tables
  • billing.subscriptions
  • crm.accounts
Key Columns
  • cohort_month
  • arr_usd
  • segment_tier
Usage
Primary consumer: Revenue Analytics team. Queried 284 times in the last 30 days.

Agents that build advanced, enterprise-grade intelligence.

Atlas
Atlas
Tags every asset with its business domain — automatically, at scale.
Stage 3 · Compounded
Purpose
Tags every asset with its business domain — automatically, at scale.
Task Plan
1
Read Scribe descriptions and usage signals
2
Match asset metadata against domain patterns
3
Score domain fit for each asset
4
Apply domain tag or route to steward
Tagging assets
orders.revenue_table
Finance
revenue_usdorder_idbillingarr_q4
product_events.sessions
Product
session_idfeature_useduser_idengagement
marketing.campaigns
Marketing
campaign_idspend_usdimpressionschannel
finance.arr_cohort
Finance
arr_usdcohort_monthcustomer_tierchurn
eng.deploy_logs
Engineering
deploy_idenvpipelineshastatus
ROLLOUT

Rollout in 30 days, not 12 months.

Start With What Matters

Start With What Matters

Most of your catalog nobody touches. Context Agents identify your Gold Layer, Popular BI, Popular SQL, and upstream dependencies first — enriching the assets people actually use before spending cycles on the long tail. Value shows up in days, not months.

AI Scores Every Output

AI Scores Every Output

Each agent output carries a composite confidence score across accuracy, clarity, style, and completeness. High-confidence outputs auto-apply. Lower-confidence outputs route to humans.

Humans Decide & Govern.

Humans Decide & Govern.

AI generates descriptions, classifies assets, builds metrics, and scores quality at scale. Stewards shift from documentation to certification — sampling, validating, and resolving the cases that require judgment. One click. Not 847 manual reviews.

INDUSTRY RECOGNITION

The future of context, validated by Forrester and Gartner

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Customer Love

Users can't stop gushing about their new AI teammates

Months of work, done by lunch

"Without this context we would have spent months/years manually updating the metadata required for these efforts and would not let us move at the speed we can now."

Bernie Daley

Bernie Daley

Director of Data Management, Nelnet Servicing, LLC

"With single-digit hours of effort from our team, we were able to accomplish work that would have taken months for a larger team to finish — and realistically, we likely would not have ever started it."

Data Governance Leader

Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)

"If we tried to map and document this data estate manually, it would have taken years for an entire team. I joked internally that I'd be ready to retire before we finished. Automation turned a multi-year hurdle into an immediate win."

Data Governance Leader

Financial Services

"Our pilot proved that automated context drafting makes our entire documentation process infinitely more efficient. The results show that it is significantly faster for our producers to review and fix an existing draft than to write one from scratch."

Data Engineering Leader

Retail & E-commerce

"This serves as an excellent accelerator to get critical governance conversations going across the company. It instantly provides rich content for our teams to discuss and refine, rather than leaving them staring at empty pages."

Data Architect

Energy & Utilities

"This completely jump-started the population of our descriptions, allowing us to permanently overcome the 'cold start' issue that stalls out most traditional enterprise governance initiatives."

Data Engineering Leader

Technology & SaaS

"The ability to quickly prefill initial descriptions and READMEs is extremely beneficial because taking that first manual step is always the most time-consuming. Once the baseline is established, you can focus human energy strictly on refining your highest-value assets."

Data Engineering Leader

Life Sciences & Healthcare

Context that captured the business DNA

"I expected boilerplate — instead, it inferred business context I never explicitly provided, correctly describing how an asset fit into our customer journey just from column names and lineage. That's when I realized this was knowledge synthesis, not just documentation."

Swatilekha Saha

Swatilekha Saha

Data Architect, DAT Freight & Analytics

"The output shifted from solid generic descriptions to something that felt like it had been written by someone who understands our business. That's the moment I stopped thinking about this as a time-saving tool and started seeing it as a strategic capability."

Izabela Wilczynska

Izabela Wilczynska

Data Governance Manager, PayU

"It picked up on the nuance of our underlying database structures, successfully defining audit columns and system attributes that human stewards usually ignore out of fatigue. It proved we can move past line-by-line micromanagement."

Data Governance Leader

Insurance

"We have highly custom, specialized domain terminology that standard dictionaries completely miss. The system parsed our query behavior and accurately translated that unique jargon right out of the box, without heavy manual training."

Data Governance Leader

Travel & Hospitality

"Operating in heavy manufacturing means our data carries highly specific operational context. The agents interpreted and documented these industry-specific assets flawlessly, showing a deep understanding of our business logic without manual fine-tuning."

Data & Analytics Leader

Industrial Manufacturing

"The specialized documentation and structural context that the agents generated were surprisingly accurate. They captured our data architecture so cleanly that, with only a few minor corrections, they were completely production-ready."

Data Engineering Leader

Retail & E-commerce

"The depth of the context it pulled automatically was incredible. It successfully mapped out highly complex, specialized tables that are notoriously difficult to track manually, giving us a level of baseline precision we couldn't maintain on our own."

Data Governance Leader

Life Sciences & Healthcare

Surfaced business logic that was hidden in queries

"We were stunned with the quality of the content that was produced by these AI agents. We were perplexed. How could it create such high-quality context from lineage, from SQL logic, from dbt logic. It really shows how much business information is hidden in the metadata following a lineage that we simply cannot see with human eyes. But agents pick it up, consume it all, and spit it out in an organized way."

Kenneth Jebjerg

Kenneth Jebjerg

Head of Data Engineering

"The AI enables us to do things we wouldn't be able to do otherwise. I don't know if we would ever get to this level of quality with descriptions. Getting a consistent definition when different lines of business describe things differently? Everyone ends up learning more about the data than they knew."

Cody Brees

Cody Brees

Data Governance Lead, The Bancorp

"This provided an exceptional opportunity to generate deep technical insights via SQL Intelligence that would be incredibly difficult and labor-intensive to gather manually across our core data pipelines."

Data & Analytics Leader

Retail & E-commerce

"We put the automated descriptions in front of our most rigorous enterprise data gatekeepers, and it cleared an 80% accuracy baseline immediately. It proved that automated context can meet the strict standards of a global corporate data office."

Data Governance Leader

Technology & SaaS

"Instead of just filling in blank text boxes, the system decodes the inner logic of our data through actual usage footprints. It turns documentation into a live, continuous feedback loop that evaluates our overall platform health."

Data Architect

Life Sciences & Healthcare

"By reverse-engineering raw query footprints, the system automatically captured the exact business questions our users naturally ask. It understands human intent far better than a static data dictionary ever could."

Data Governance Leader

Non-Profit & Education

"The natural language questions surfaced by the SQL Intelligence feature were a major milestone for us. Seeing the machine reverse-translate complex SQL queries back into clear, user-friendly business logic was highly impressive."

Data & Analytics Leader

Technology & SaaS

No more chasing busy analysts and engineers

"Once we showed this to our BI team, you could see the attitude shift — from 'another tool, more work' to excited to get in and start looking around. The instant value just changed everything."

Sayali Avalakki

Sayali Avalakki

BI & Analytics Lead, Brightspeed

"This system gives us an incredibly solid foundation to build our new data governance culture. By automatically generating initial context, it completely eliminates the 'blank page effect' that stops users from adopting tools."

Data Governance Leader

Logistics & Operations

"This pilot gave our team clear reassurance that a massive portion of the administrative heavy lifting that used to derail data governance can now be completely and safely automated."

Data Engineering Leader

Technology & SaaS

"We completely bypassed the uphill battle of chasing down busy business analysts for definitions. We generated a highly accurate, reviewable baseline of our data estate in an hour — a process that normally takes weeks of corporate coordination."

Data Governance Leader

Technology & SaaS

"This successfully moves the organizational bottleneck from motivating busy stewards to document, to building efficient human-in-the-loop review processes. It saves time on manual creation and focuses energy on strategic verification."

Data Governance Leader

Industrial Manufacturing

"At the start of any data catalog journey, getting definitions for physical data is a massive hurdle. These agents give us a great starting point to engage business users, shifting their role from writing definitions to simply reviewing them."

Data Governance Leader

Insurance

Leave metadata management behind.
Compound context with agents.

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