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title: "Build with Atlan MCP: Bring Context to Every Data Question | Summer of MCP"
url: "https://atlan.com/summer-of-atlan-mcp-data-discovery/"
description: "EP 03 of Summer of MCP. Ask where to find data, whether you can trust it, and who owns it - in plain English, with Atlan MCP."
---

> Atlan is hosting Context Conference, bringing together the leaders and builders at the frontier of giving AI the context it needs to understand their business. It runs online on October 28, 2026, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM ET. Atlan co-founder Prukalpa Sankar opens and closes the day. Leaders from AstraZeneca, BNY and Verizon share why they invest in context and what they get from it. Registrants get early access to The AI Context Gap, a new study from MIT Technology Review Insights. Register: https://atlan.com/context-conference/

EP 03 of Summer of MCP (Build with Atlan MCP). **July 29, 2026 / 11:00 AM ET / 8:00 AM PT / 30 min / live online** (as listed on the page).

Business users don't know table names, and don't want to. When a question comes up, they want to know where to find the data, whether they can trust it, and who owns it, without learning the catalog UI or filing a ticket and waiting on the data team.

Atlan MCP lets them ask in plain English from the tools they already use, and get an answer grounded in your catalog: the certified source, the agreed definition, and the owner. In this session, we'll show it answering real questions, and a community member will share how their team uses it. No ticket, no waiting on the data team.

Registration: the form is on the page, [https://atlan.com/summer-of-atlan-mcp-data-discovery/](https://atlan.com/summer-of-atlan-mcp-data-discovery/).

## What You'll See

1. **Find the right data fast.** "I'm starting a project on customer churn, what data do we have and who owns it?" Atlan MCP returns the named, relevant datasets and their owners. What used to take days of asking around becomes one question.
2. **Get the definition everyone agreed on.** Ask "what's our official definition of an active customer?" and Atlan MCP returns the company-agreed definition and the certified data behind it, so you're not working off a guess or tribal knowledge.
3. **A community member shows it in production.** Someone working in the same stack, with the same Monday-morning questions, walks through how their team actually uses this: the prompt they ran, what came back, and what it changed. The days of waiting, gone, and the quiet confidence the answer's right.
4. **A trustworthy answer, no catalog required.** This is the lowest-barrier way to get a trustworthy data answer. You leave knowing anyone on your team can find data, confirm they can trust it, and see who owns it, without learning a new tool.

## Conversation Leader

**Steven Hloros**, Sr. Customer Education Manager, Atlan. Steven helps organizations get more value from their data. He works closely with customers to connect governance, metadata, and AI into practical workflows, and more recently, to bring trusted context into the AI tools their teams use every day through Atlan MCP.

## More from the series

- [Debugging and Impact Analysis](https://atlan.com/summer-of-atlan-mcp-debugging-impact-analysis/)
- [Build Your Dashboard on Trusted Data](https://atlan.com/summer-of-atlan-mcp-dashboards/)