Dremio’s Lakehouse AI Agent: From Questions to Actions

Companies are racing to operationalize agentic AI, but the path from raw unstructured data to an informed decision often breaks down in the final mile. Teams juggle schema knowledge, joins, query tuning, visualization tools, and unified governance checks before they can answer even a simple business question. With Dremio’s Agentic Lakehouse, we remove that friction by bringing a natural-language agent directly into the lakehouse experience.

We’re excited to announce Dremio’s Lakehouse AI Agent, a conversational interface that accelerates business insight and decision-making. In a single interface, using natural language, you can ask questions, generate insights, and drive actions. 

By changing how your organization makes decisions through natural language and instant visualizations, you shorten business cycles from weeks to minutes. Let’s explore how Dremio is accelerating the process of questions → insights → actions.

Key highlights:

1. A Lakehouse AI agent combines analytics, visualization, and action in a single conversational interface, turning raw data into real-time business decisions.
2. Agentic AI bridges human questions and enterprise data, using natural language to generate insights, visualizations, and recommendations instantly.
3. AI agents transform traditional analytics by enabling continuous, data-driven cycles of questions-to-insights-to-actions across your organization.
4. Dremio’s Agentic AI Lakehouse empowers enterprises to build intelligent data agents directly on their existing lakehouse, accelerating analysis, improving ROI, and driving confident decision-making.

Questions: The Starting Point of Analytics

In many enterprises, analytics require translating business questions into SQL, schemas, joins, and aggregations. The handoff to specialists creates dependencies and slows down the decision-making process.

Using Dremio's AI Agent for data analysis eliminates this barrier. You can ask questions in natural language and let the system handle intent, context, and nuance. Questions can be simple or complex, specific or exploratory, standalone or part of an investigative thread. The agent maintains context across the entire conversation, allowing questions to build naturally on each other as your understanding deepens.

Insights: Understanding Made Visible

Raw answers aren’t enough—understanding requires visualization and context. Dremio’s AI Agent transforms questions directly into visual representations of real-time data, backed by high-quality analysis and insights. These visualizations become part of an ongoing analytical conversation, where each view can be refined, expanded, or pivoted based on what you need insight into.

Using Dremio’s AI Agent for data visualization helps you move from a question to an answer in seconds, and it accelerates exploration and experimentation, leading to greater business value. You can pursue more paths, test more hypotheses, and discover insights that would never surface through traditional reporting cycles. 

The agent doesn’t just answer questions—it reveals patterns, highlights anomalies, and surfaces connections that you might not think to look for.

Actions: Decisions with Confidence

Insights without action create no value. Dremio’s AI Lakehouse Agent completes the cycle by enabling immediate action on discoveries. You can export visualizations for presentations, create alerts for critical metrics, share insights with stakeholders, or trigger workflows based on findings—all within the same conversational interface.

The agent helps you move from “what happened” to “what should we do” by providing actionable recommendations based on your data patterns. The Lakehouse AI solution suggests next steps, highlights risks requiring attention, and identifies opportunities for optimization. This seamless transition from insight to action ensures that discoveries translate into business impact.

Benefits of agentic AI for data analysis​

When your questions-to-insights-to-actions cycle is compressed from weeks to minutes, something fundamental changes in how you operate.

1. The volume of decisions you make increases dramatically 

You can explore more options, validate more assumptions, and test more strategies. This isn’t just doing the same things faster—it’s doing things that were previously impossible due to time constraints.

2. Your decision quality improves 

With rapid iteration, you can dig deeper into root causes, explore edge cases, and understand nuance. Decisions become based on a comprehensive understanding rather than surface-level analysis.

3. Organizational learning accelerates 

Each cycle teaches something new, and when cycles happen quickly, learning compounds. You and your teams develop sharper intuition about what questions to ask, what patterns matter, and which actions drive results.

Third, your organizational learning accelerates. Each cycle teaches something new, and when cycles happen quickly, learning compounds. You and your teams develop sharper intuition about what questions to ask, what patterns matter, and which actions drive results.

An AI Lakehouse provides guidance where you need it

Dremio’s agentic AI for data analysis also serves as your educational and investigative partner. With a single click in the Dremio Console, you now have access to personalized guidance for your SQL queries and jobs. The interactive chat interface means you're not limited to a single answer as you evaluate your SQL and job performance. Ask follow-up questions, explore alternatives, and dive deeper into any topic. 
Dremio's AI Agent maintains context throughout the conversation, providing refined guidance as you work through challenges.

Explain SQL - Understand Any Query Instantly

Have you ever analyzed a complex query and spent hours attempting to decipher what it does? Simply click "Explain SQL" and receive:

• Plain-English explanations of your query's logic
• Clear breakdowns of joins, filters, and aggregations
• Insights into why specific operations are used
• Understanding of performance implications

No more guessing or lengthy documentation searches—get instant insight on even the most complex SQL. Ask follow-up questions, request further clarification, or prompt the chat for optimization recommendations.

Explain Job - See Exactly Where Time and Resources Go

Wonder why your query takes longer than expected? Click "Explain Job" for comprehensive insights:

• Detailed breakdown of processing costs and time
• Identification of bottlenecks and their causes
• Understanding of resource distribution
• Recommendations for performance improvements
• Clear explanations of which operations drive complexity

Transform execution plans into clear optimization steps, discover patterns you weren't aware of, and drive efficiency.

Data-driven AI agent for ROI improvement​: A new relationship with data

Dremio’s Lakehouse AI Agent represents more than a new feature—it’s a new relationship between you and your data. Instead of your data being locked behind technical barriers, it becomes conversationally accessible. Instead of insights requiring specialized skills, they become easily discoverable. Instead of waiting for specialized analysis, you make decisions at the speed of business.

This transformation doesn’t require replacing existing systems or retraining your entire organization. It simply requires starting a conversation. The same data that currently sits in reports and digital dashboards becomes dynamically explorable through natural dialogue. The same decisions that currently take weeks can be made in minutes.

Consider how implementing a data-driven AI agent for ROI improvement changes common business scenarios:

• Sales performance analysis: As a sales leader, you can ask, “Which territories are underperforming this quarter and why?” The agent instantly visualizes performance gaps, correlates them with market conditions, and suggests targeted interventions.
  
• Supply chain optimization: As an operations lead, you can ask, “What’s causing delivery delays in the Northeast region?” and immediately see bottleneck patterns, vendor performance issues, and recommended adjustments—all through natural conversation.
  
• Customer behavior insights: As a marketing analyst, you can ask, “How are customer preferences shifting across demographics?” and receive instant segmentation analysis, trend visualizations, and campaign recommendations—without writing a single query.

Get the best AI agent for data analysis with Dremio

The enterprise data stored in your systems already contains the insights that could transform your business. Your team already has the questions that could unlock those insights. Dremio’s AI Agent simply connects them through natural conversation.

The transformation begins with a single question. That question leads to an insight, which drives an action, which raises the next question. Each cycle builds capability, confidence, and competitive advantage.

In the Dremio Agentic Lakehouse, experience the power of conversational analytics with Dremio’s AI Agent. Transform your questions into insights into actions—and transform your business in the process.
Get started today and see how Dremio Agentic AI Lakehouse can help power decision-making and drive results for your business.