Overview

Atlan AI is part of the Atlan Active Metadata Platform — a SaaS control plane for data and AI governance that unifies metadata across tools and systems to help teams discover, document, trust, and collaborate on data. It delivers AI‑assisted documentation, natural language explanations, lineage insights, and automated quality suggestions to reduce manual work and enrich metadata context for data teams.

Features and Capabilities

• Active Metadata Management: Enables continuous, automated harvesting and enrichment of metadata across data sources, improving discoverability and context without manual effort.
• AI Copilot for Data Teams: Atlan AI uses generative AI to automatically generate descriptions for tables, views, columns, and business terms, helping teams document assets faster.
• Natural Language Lineage & Insights: Provides natural language explanations of data lineage transformations to clarify how data moves through pipelines.
• Data Quality Support: Suggests data quality rules based on metadata structure and can generate custom SQL quality checks using a Copilot experience.
• Conversational AI: Allows users to ask questions about data and metadata using natural language, returning guided answers and impact analysis.
• Automated Governance Workflows: Delivers governance guidance and policy automation embedded in existing workflows for consistency and compliance.
• End‑to‑end Lineage & Catalog: Captures column‑level data lineage, making data provenance and impact evaluation easier for technical and non‑technical users.
• Collaboration & Context Sharing: Centralizes business definitions, collaborators, terms, and glossary assets to foster shared understanding across teams.