Ask anything.

Trust every answer.

AIDA turns plain-language questions into trusted, governed answers across all your data. No dashboard backlog, no waiting on BI. And the same trusted layer powers your own AI agents.
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The shift

Decisions, not dashboards.

Your teams don't want another dashboard. They want answers they can trust now. AIDA closes the gap between a question and a decision.

The BI bottleneck

How it works today

  • File a ticket, wait days for a new dashboard
  • Analysts buried in ad hoc requests
  • Every team has its own definition of "revenue"
  • AI copilots that hallucinate on ungoverned data
  • Answers locked to whoever can write SQL
With AIDA

How it works with AIDA

  • Ask in plain language, get an answer in seconds
  • Analysts freed for higher-value work
  • One shared, governed definition for everyone
  • Answers grounded in policy-enforced data products
  • Self-serve for every business user and every agent

How AIDA works for you

Ask. Understand. Trust.

Ask

Query and explore data across all your systems in natural language. No SQL, no BI ticket. AIDA federates across data warehouses, data lakes, and SaaS in place.

Understand

Run ad hoc analysis and generate visualizations on the fly. Follow up, drill in, and get the "why" behind the number, without waiting on a dashboard.

Trust

Every answer is grounded in governed data, shared business definitions, and policy-enforced access, including for external agents via MCP.

Under the hood

Trustworthy because of what's underneath.

AIDA isn't a bolt-on chatbot. It sits on Starburst's governed context layer over your federated data, so the answers are accurate, secured, and explainable.
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AIDA: the AI experience

Natural-language analytics for business users, plus an agentic interface for your own AI, built on top of a governed foundation.

Enterprise Context Layer

Governed data products, shared business definitions, and policy: the trusted ground truth powering every query and agent.

Open, federated foundation

Query 50+ sources in place across cloud platforms, data lakes, data warehouses, and SaaS. No copying required. Expose the same governed layer to any agent through a secure MCP endpoint.

Who it's for

One trusted layer. Two ways to use it.

For business teams & analysts

Answers without the backlog.

  • Ask questions and get governed answers in seconds
  • Explore and visualize without writing SQL
  • Everyone works from the same shared definitions
  • Analysts stop firefighting ad hoc requests
For AI & data teams

Governed data for every agent.

  • Serve trusted data products to agents via MCP
  • Policy-enforced, row-level secured access by default
  • No data copies, no ungoverned RAG pipelines
  • Build agentic workflows on a single source of truth

Proof

A foundation teams build AI on.

Spreetail

One of our engineers called Starburst a sledgehammer for data: it handles huge volumes, moves it efficiently, and does it cost-effectively.

Brock Butler

VP of Engineering, Spreetail

Switch

Starburst is foundational for how we're rolling out AI within our own operations. It gives us the trusted data foundation we need to automate with confidence.

Zia Syed

CTO, Switch

OCBC Bank

Before Starburst, platform adoption was a big question. Now, even business users can explore and access data easily. It transformed how we work.

Periyasamy Sivakumar

Head of Data Engineering, OCBC Bank

FAQ

AIDA, answered.

AIDA is built into the Starburst Enterprise Intelligence Platform. It's not a separate purchase: it's the AI layer on top of the same governed, federated foundation your analysts and engineers already use.
Most AI analytics tools connect to a single source or rely on unstructured data. AIDA is grounded in Starburst's governed context layer (shared business definitions, policy enforcement, and federated access across all your sources), so answers are accurate and auditable, not hallucinated.
Yes. AIDA exposes the same governed data layer through a secure MCP endpoint, so your own AI agents (in Claude, LangChain, CrewAI, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible runtime) can query governed data the same way AIDA does.
AIDA queries any source Starburst federates: cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery), data lakes (Amazon S3, ADLS), relational databases, streaming systems, and SaaS, 50+ connectors in total.
AIDA doesn't bypass your policies: it enforces them. Row-level security, column masking, and data product ownership are all built into the underlying Starburst layer. Users only see data they're authorized to see, even when asking in natural language.

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