Who this is for
Head of operations or analytics who wants staff to ask the data questions without waiting for an analyst.
Staff queue for the one analyst, and a pilot that let a chat tool loose on the warehouse gave answers nobody trusted.
The result
A question tool answers only from approved views on a read-only copy of your warehouse. Every answer shows its query and row count. On a 50-question set you wrote and 20 held back, the share answered correctly is reported, wrong numbers fail the whole test, and out-of-scope questions are refused.
What is included
- One read-only copy of one schema with personal columns masked, and up to 10 approved views
- A question tool that writes queries only against those views
- A read-only role, a row limit, a time limit and a log of every question and query
- A 50-question set with expected answers: 30 for tuning and 20 you keep from us until the test run
- A kill switch you hold, and a handover with the log format
You receive
- The question tool and its settings
- The approved-views list
- The question set with expected answers
- The results table, including refusals
- The kill-switch steps and the log format
What is not included
- Access to your live production warehouse
- Write access of any kind
- Questions outside the approved views
- Answers presented without their query
- Personal data columns
What we need from you first
- The warehouse and the tables behind the views you have in mind
- Five example questions staff ask today
- No real records, personal data or credentials in the first enquiry
Never send passwords, keys, customer records or confidential code in the first enquiry. Secure handover is agreed after scoping.
How we check it is done
- Of the 20 held-back questions, at least 18 are answered correctly against your expected values and the other 2 are refused or marked unsure; any wrong figure fails the whole test. 18 of 20 correct shows the true rate is at least 71% with 95% confidence, and 0 wrong figures in 20 bounds the wrong-figure rate under 14%.
- 10 questions outside the approved views, which you add and we do not see beforehand, are all refused, not guessed; one figure returned for any of them fails the whole test.
- Every answer in the held-back set shows its query and row count, and the log records each question.
- A write or delete attempt that we make as a test is blocked by the platform's role, not by the model.
- An instruction inside a text column, which you plant and we do not see beforehand, changes no answer, and the row and time limits stop a heavy query that you plant.
Your tool owner inspects the held-back results, the refusals and the log, and signs off in writing. Payment follows sign-off. You run the tool in your own account.
When we would stop or decline
- Only live production access is available
- Definitions of the views are disputed
- You want 'ask anything' over raw tables
- Personal columns cannot be masked
Questions
Can staff ask anything?
No. Only questions the approved views can answer. Everything else is refused.
Can the tool change my data?
No. Its role cannot write, and the platform enforces that.
Do you need my production warehouse?
No. A masked read-only copy is enough.
Price and terms
From £795 · untested offer price. The fixed price is set in the written quote. Nothing is charged before you agree it, and payment follows your sign-off on the held-back results.
This is a new service with no published client results. The price is a starting point we have not yet tested with buyers. Nothing is ordered or charged by the enquiry. The full specification is on the Synthetic Industry catalogue.