Seemore Assistant
Ask questions about your cost, compute, queries, and savings in plain language — from a full page or a sidebar that reads the page you're on. The Seemore Assistant answers with charts and tables, usin
Overview
The Seemore Assistant is an AI assistant built into SeeMore Data. Ask a question in plain language, like "Why did my compute cost go up this week?", and it pulls the relevant data from your account, analyzes it, and answers with a written explanation, charts, and tables.
It uses the same data you see across SeeMore Data: cost, warehouses (compute units), queries, anomalies, insights, budgets, contract, savings, and lineage. You get an answer in seconds instead of building filters and moving between pages.
You can use the assistant in two places:
Sidebar assistant
Full-page assistant
Where
A panel next to any page in SeeMore Data
Its own page, Seemore Assistant in the left navigation
Best for
Questions about what's on screen: "Why is this query expensive?"
Broad questions about your whole account, and browsing past chats
Page context
Reads the page you're on. See How the assistant reads the page
None, it starts from your whole account
Open with
The Assistant tab on the right edge, or ⌘ + . / Ctrl + .
The Seemore Assistant navigation item
Both use the same chats, so you can start a conversation in one and continue it in the other.
The Sidebar Assistant
The sidebar assistant goes with you around SeeMore Data. It opens as a panel on the right side of the screen, next to the page you're working on, so you can ask about a warehouse, anomaly, or query without leaving it.
Opening and closing the sidebar
Open it: click the Assistant tab on the right edge of any page, or press ⌘ + . (Mac) / Ctrl + . (Windows).
Close it: click Collapse in the sidebar header, or press the same shortcut again.
Opens with a question: select a time window on a warehouse's activity chart and click Investigate with Seemore. The sidebar opens and asks "What happened in this window?" for you. See Example: investigate a time window.
Your browser remembers whether the sidebar was open, so it stays the way you left it.
Sidebar controls
All chats / Back to chat
Switch between the current chat and the list of your past chats
New chat
Start a fresh conversation
Open in full screen
Move the current chat to the full-page assistant and continue it there
Collapse
Close the sidebar. Your chat is kept.
Resize
Drag the sidebar's left edge to make it wider or narrower
It stays with you as you navigate
The chat stays open as you move between pages. Every message you send includes the page you're on at that moment, so you can move from one page to the next and keep asking in the same chat:
On a compute unit page, ask "Why is this compute unit expensive?"
Click through to one of its expensive queries.
In the same chat, ask "And how can I improve this query?" The assistant now answers about the query on screen, with the previous answer still in the conversation.
Reloading the browser opens the sidebar on a new chat. Your earlier chats are saved under All chats.
How the Assistant Reads the Page
When you ask a question from the sidebar, the assistant receives a short description of the page you're on: which page it is, which item it shows, and how the view is set. That's why you can say "this", "here", or "it" instead of copying IDs, names, and dates into your question.
The Context bar
The Context bar under the sidebar header shows what the assistant is reading:
Page: the page or item on screen, such as a query ID, a compute unit, or an anomaly.
Time range: the range selected on the page, such as Last 7 days or a custom date range.
Zoomed window (only when you've selected one): a highlighted chip with the exact start and end times you selected on a chart. Click its × to remove it, and the assistant goes back to the page's time range.
What the assistant picks up
The page
Compute unit details, Anomaly, Query, Contract, Budget, Workloads
Understands what "this page" means
The item on screen
The compute unit, account, anomaly, query, budget, insight, recommendation, asset, or user the page is about
"this", "here", and "it" refer to that item
The page tab
The Real time tab of a compute unit, or a tab in Workloads
Answers about the part of the page you're looking at
Time range
Last 7 days, Last 30 days, or a custom range
Used as the default period for the answer
Zoomed window
A time window you selected on a chart
Takes priority over the page's time range
Domain filter
The domains selected at the top of the page
Keeps the answer to those domains
How the view is set up
Workloads grouped by a query tag, the tag keys you filtered on, the contract and years shown, lineage depth, the number of accounts selected
Answers about this view, not your whole account
Data platform
Snowflake or Databricks
Uses the right terms. On Databricks, compute units are SQL warehouses, clusters, jobs, and pipelines.
What it doesn't pick up
The page context is a short, fixed list of identifiers and view settings. The assistant does not read the data displayed on your screen. It doesn't receive filter values, tag values, or any other part of the page address. When it needs numbers, it looks them up itself, with your permissions. See Security & Privacy.
Page Context Examples
Each page offers its own suggested questions in the sidebar. Here's what the assistant knows on each page and the kinds of questions it handles well.
Compute unit (warehouse) page
It knows: which compute unit you're viewing, the tab you're on, and the selected time range.
"Why is this compute unit expensive?": breaks down its cost over the period and points to the workloads and queries that drive it.
"What is running here right now?": checks live status and the queries currently running or queued on it.
"Is this compute unit sized right?": compares its size and activity with the queuing and idle time it shows.
"What did Smart Pulse change here this week?": lists recent automation changes on this compute unit and their impact.
Example: investigate a time window
On a compute unit's activity chart, drag across the spike you want to understand and click Investigate with Seemore. The sidebar opens, a zoomed window chip appears in the Context bar with the exact times you selected, and the assistant is asked "What happened in this window?".
The assistant limits its answer to those minutes, not the whole day. For example, it can tell you which queries were running, whether queries were queuing, and whether the warehouse scaled up or out. Follow up with "Which user ran the most expensive of those?" and it keeps using the same window. Click × on the chip to go back to the page's full time range.
Anomaly page
It knows: which anomaly you're viewing. It looks up the affected asset and its normal baseline itself.
"Explain this anomaly": describes what spiked, by how much, compared with the normal level, and the likely cause.
"What else changed at the same time?": looks for other cost changes, anomalies, or automation events in the same window.
Query page
It knows: which query and query pattern you're viewing, and the selected time range.
"Why is this query expensive?": combines the query's run history, execution plan, and similar runs to explain where the cost comes from.
"How can I improve this query?": suggests concrete changes based on the execution plan, like better partition pruning or clustering.
"Are there similar queries I could consolidate?": finds other queries doing the same work.
Workloads
It knows: how the view is grouped, for example by a query tag, which tab you're on, and which query tag keys you've filtered on.
"What is driving cost in this view?": answers about the workloads as you've grouped and filtered them, not about your whole account.
"Which workloads grew the most this week?"
"Which dbt models cost the most?" and "Which dbt models got slower this week?": suggested when dbt is connected.
Contract
It knows: which contract is selected, the years shown, the forecast setting, and whether you've filtered to specific accounts.
"Are we on track with the contract?"
"When do we run out of credits?"
"How big should the next contract be?"
Budget
It knows: which budget you're drilling into.
"Will this budget breach, and when?"
"What is driving spend in this budget?"
Asset page (Discovery)
It knows: which table or asset you're viewing and how many lineage hops upstream and downstream are shown.
"Who reads from this, and what does it cost them?"
"What breaks if this asset changes?"
These lineage questions are suggested when the asset has lineage.
Any other page
On every page, you can ask "What stands out on this page?". The assistant uses the page and its time range to give a quick summary of what's worth your attention. On pages that aren't about one item, the sidebar suggests general questions about your account.
The Full-Page Assistant
Click Seemore Assistant at the top of the left navigation to open the assistant on its own page. It starts from your whole account rather than a specific page, and shows topics to start from: cost reports, cost trends, cost anomalies, savings and automations, compute units, and expensive queries. The sidebar on the left lists all your chats.
What You Can Ask
The assistant can answer questions in the following areas, from either the sidebar or the full page:
Cost reports
"Build me a cost report", "Give me a cost breakdown by account and warehouse"
Cost trends
"Why did my compute cost go up this week?", "What drove the biggest change in the last 30 days?"
Anomalies & insights
"Any cost anomalies right now?", "Explain the latest anomaly"
Savings & automations
"How much did the automations save this month?", "What did Smart Pulse change this week?", "Where is the biggest remaining saving?"
Compute units
"What is running on my compute units right now?", "Which compute units are idle most of the time?", "Which are queuing or oversized?"
Queries
"Show the most expensive query patterns", "Which queries got slower or costlier recently?"
Storage & services
"Where did storage grow?", "How much are we spending on AI services?"
Budgets & contract
"Are we on track against our budget?", "How much of our contract have we used?"
Assets & lineage
"What feeds this table?", "Who uses this table downstream?"
Tags & attribution
"Cost by team, last 90 days", "Which query tags drive the most spend?"
Product help
"How does Auto Shutdown work?". The assistant can read the SeeMore Data documentation.
Answers with charts and tables
The assistant writes a short summary and adds charts and tables when they help. While it works, it shows each step it takes, such as Cost report or Compute unit cost over time. Expand a step to see where the numbers came from. Answers include links to the relevant pages in SeeMore Data so you can dig deeper.
For broad requests like "Build me a cost report", the assistant follows a structured analysis and may first ask which period you want covered.
Conversations
Chat history: every conversation is saved as a chat. Find past chats under All chats in the sidebar or in the full-page list, search them, rename them, mark favorites, or delete the ones you no longer need.
Follow-ups: ask follow-up questions in the same chat. The assistant remembers the whole conversation.
Keeps working in the background: if you close the tab while an answer is being written, the answer keeps going and is waiting in the chat when you come back.
Feedback: use the thumbs up and thumbs down buttons under each answer to tell us how it did. Use the copy button to copy an answer.
Stop generating: stop a long answer at any time.
The Assistant Is Read-Only
The assistant reads your data. It does not change anything in SeeMore Data or in your data platform. It cannot resize warehouses, enable automations, edit budgets, change settings, or run queries against your data. When you ask for a change, it explains what to do and links you to the page where you can make it yourself.
Security and Privacy
The Seemore Assistant follows the same security model as the rest of SeeMore Data. For the full picture, see Security Model & Architecture.
Your data is never used to train AI models
Your questions, your chats, and your account's data are never used to train AI models. This applies to SeeMore Data and to our AI model provider. The model provider processes each request only to generate the answer, under enterprise terms that prohibit using customer data for training.
It follows your role and access (RBAC)
The assistant never sees more than you do. Every question is answered with your own permissions, through the same role-based access control (RBAC) that applies everywhere else in SeeMore Data:
Your data scope applies. The assistant only sees the accounts and assets granted to you through Asset Groups, either directly or through your Teams. If a warehouse or account is outside your scope, the assistant can't see it either.
Your role applies. Data that requires a higher user role stays hidden from the assistant too. For example, a Viewer can't use the assistant to read contract data that requires the Editor role.
Page context grants nothing. The page context only tells the assistant what you're looking at. Every lookup is still checked against your permissions.
Your chats are private. Other users, including admins, can't see your chats.
Every request is audited. Each piece of data the assistant looks up is recorded for auditing, the same as any other request in SeeMore Data.
It only uses metadata
The assistant works on the same metadata that SeeMore Data already collects, such as query history, warehouse usage, and cost. Like the rest of SeeMore Data, it has no access to the contents of your tables. Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest.
Tips for Better Answers
Ask from the right page. Open the sidebar on the compute unit, anomaly, query, or budget you care about, and the assistant starts with it already in context.
Zoom in before you ask. For a spike, select the window on the chart and use Investigate with Seemore. A narrow window gets a sharper answer than a whole day.
Be specific about time when you're not using the page's range: "last 7 days", "this month", or "since 1 September".
Name what you care about. Mention the warehouse, account, team, or query ID when you're asking about something that isn't on screen.
Keep going. Ask "why?", "break it down by user", or "show it as a chart" to go deeper in the same chat.
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