Overview

Soda AI is a Generative AI-powered assistant embedded in the Soda Cloud platform, designed to streamline data quality for teams across technical and non-technical backgrounds. It translates plain-English prompts into production-ready data quality checks, intelligently collaborates with users on expectations, and provides natural-language diagnostics. With built-in privacy and SOC‑2 compliance assurances, it helps organizations achieve trustworthy data-driven decision making by automating test creation, anomaly detection, and root-cause insights—all within a low-code environment.

Features and Capabilities

• **Low‑code Conversational Interface: **Translate everyday language into SQL or regex checks for custom or complex data validation. Use GenAI-based assistants to simplify creation of robust checks without manual coding.
• **Checks Assistant / SodaGPT: **Generate production-ready SodaCL checks from natural language descriptions. Automate scheduling and execution of checks within Soda Cloud workflows.
• **Regex Assistant: **Auto-generate regex expressions tailored to specific patterns and SQL dialects. Explain generated expressions in plain English so users can verify logic.
• **SQL Assistant: **Help craft custom SQL-based metrics and logic for advanced data quality scenarios. Support for failed-rows logic and custom query-based validation within data pipelines.
• **Ask AI Assistant: **Answer general questions about using Soda, including troubleshooting errors, writing checks, and integrations. Embedded directly into Soda Cloud for intuitive self-service support.
• **Anomaly Detection & Observability: **Monitor key data and metadata metrics with ML-powered time-series anomaly detection. Detect deviations faster with proprietary algorithms and context-aware alerts.
• **Collaborative Data Contracts: **Define and manage shared expectations between data producers and consumers via UI or code. Use contracts to prevent data drift and ensure alignment across teams.
• **Control, Privacy & Compliance: **SOC‑2 Type II certification ensures enterprise-grade security. Only prompts and minimal schema metadata are shared with third-party AI partners—not raw data.