Bring Codd AI into Slack: Unlock Agentic Analytics in Team Conversations

In modern enterprises, decisions move at the speed of conversation - and those conversations happen in Slack. Your teams brainstorm, debate, and decide there every day. So why should analytics live somewhere else?

With the Codd AI Slack integration, you can now bring governed, contextual insights directly into your team's workspace. Ask questions in plain English, explore metrics, and visualize dashboards - all without leaving Slack.

This isn't just another bot. It's an agentic analytics companion - powered by your organization's semantic intelligence (your Corpus) - ensuring every response is context-aware, secure, and aligned with your business logic.

Your Corpus: The Brain Behind Every Insight

Every conversation with Codd starts from a foundation of context - your Corpus. A Corpus is a unified knowledge environment that blends your organization's data, logic, and definitions into one consistent source of truth.

Codd AI intelligently analyzes your connected data sources to automatically build data models and metrics, mapping how entities relate and how business rules are applied. Throughout this process, users stay in the loop for review and certification, ensuring that every model and metric is both accurate and trusted before it's used for analysis or shared across teams.

Your Corpus includes:

• Business knowledge – definitions, rules, and relationships
• Data models – automatically generated to reflect how entities like customers, policies, or claims connect
• Metrics and KPIs – intelligently derived and certified for consistent, governed reporting
• Knowledge cells – embedded logic and explanations that make data meaningful

For example, an Insurance Corpus might include entities such as Claims, Policies, and Adjusters, with reusable metrics like Claim Adjudication Rate or Premium by Region.

Once Slack connects to your Corpus, every question - from a high-level business inquiry to a detailed metric exploration - is answered through that governed, context-aware foundation. This ensures every response from Codd AI is not only intelligent, but certified and aligned with your organization's definitions.

Connecting Codd AI to Slack

Once your Corpus is ready, the next step is to connect it to Slack - where collaboration already happens. Codd makes this process simple and secure through Codd Backstage, giving your workspace governed access to your certified data models and metrics.

To begin, you'll first generate an API key to authenticate your Slack connection and then configure your preferences in Backstage.

1. Navigate to Settings → API Keys and click Generate New Key.

2. Copy the key securely - this links your Slack workspace to your Codd environment and ensures only authorized users can query data.

3. Next, open Backstage → Integrations and select Slack.

4. Choose your Brain (for example, Demos) and Corpus (for example, Insurance).

5. Under Display Preferences, toggle how you want results to appear in Slack:

   • Show SQL Query - view generated SQL for transparency
   • Show Charts - include visual summaries in Slack responses
   • Show Table Data - display results in tabular form

6. Paste your API key into the field, click Verify, and then select Connect.

7. You'll be redirected to Slack's authorization page - confirm the workspace and grant permissions to complete the installation.

After setup, the Codd AI App is installed in your Slack workspace. Authorized team members can now start asking questions, exploring metrics, and viewing governed data directly in Slack - with context, accuracy, and security built in.

Exploring Codd in Slack

With your Slack workspace now connected to a governed Corpus, you can start exploring metrics, definitions, and contextual insights directly through natural conversation. Codd AI becomes your intelligent, always-on data companion - ready to answer questions, explain business logic, and visualize results without ever leaving Slack.

You can chat with Codd naturally, or use quick shortcuts to navigate your Corpus and discover what's available.

In-chat commands

Type ! or !help to see what you can do:

• !corpus list - View available corpora
• !corpus switch <name> - Switch to a different Corpus
• !metrics list - Browse governed metrics and click to explore

Or simply ask questions in plain English:

• "Show me total claims by region for last quarter."
• "Top 5 products by revenue this month."
• "Average Claims Pending Adjudication Time"

Codd instantly responds with streaming results - complete with charts, summaries, and certified metric explanations - all drawn from your governed Corpus. Each response stays threaded, keeping analytics conversations organized, searchable, and collaborative.

Viewing Metrics and Insights

Codd turns every Slack conversation into an opportunity for discovery. You can move from a quick question to a full, governed analysis - all within a familiar chat experience.

To explore a metric, simply select from the metrics list from !metrics list command or type your question:

Claims adjudicated count by adjuster

Within seconds, Codd retrieves the certified definition and computation logic from your Corpus, executes the query, and presents a clear, interactive summary:

• A visual chart displaying adjudicated claims by adjuster
• A key insights panel summarizing major patterns ("A total of 229 claims were adjudicated across all adjusters...")
• Highlighted comparisons showing distributions, top performers, and time-based trends
• Follow-up questions automatically generated to help you explore deeper - for example:
  • "What is the distribution of 'Closed' vs. 'Denied' claims for each loss type?"
  • "Which loss type has the highest number of denied claims?"
  • "What is the quarterly trend of claims adjudicated since August 2023?"

Each result is governed and certified, ensuring that every number aligns with your organization's official definitions. Behind the scenes, Codd intelligently combines your data models, metrics, and business logic - so the insights you see are always explainable, consistent, and ready to share.

From Data to Knowledge: Conversational Queries in Codd

Codd AI goes beyond metrics. It enables teams to ask both data queries and knowledge queries - blending factual data retrieval with the business logic that explains it. Because your Corpus unifies structured data models and contextual knowledge, you can move fluidly from "show me the data" to "explain how this works," all within the same Slack conversation.

Data Queries: Ask for the Facts

When you ask Codd a data question, it interprets your intent, generates the correct governed query, and displays results transparently - complete with the underlying SQL for full traceability.

Example:

list the loss types

Codd automatically builds the query:

SELECT DISTINCT LossType FROM Claim;

Then it returns the results directly in Slack, showing four distinct categories - Collision, Fire, Liability, and Theft.

Every response respects role-based permissions and data governance policies. Analysts and business users alike can verify results, explore data entities, and trust that what they see is consistent with the organization's certified definitions.

Knowledge Queries: Ask for the Meaning

Beyond querying data, Codd can also explain your business logic - answering questions that help teams understand how key calculations, rules, and relationships work.

Example:

explain how auto premium is calculated

Codd retrieves the certified formula and explanation directly from the knowledge layer of your Corpus, detailing the components and relationships that drive the calculation - all within Slack.

This capability transforms Codd from a data assistant into a business knowledge companion. Teams no longer have to search through documentation or depend on domain experts - they can simply ask Codd and get clear, governed explanations in seconds.

Governance and Security in Slack

Every interaction with Codd AI is built on enterprise-grade governance and security. Even when used in Slack, Codd ensures compliance, transparency, and control at every level.

• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Users only see data and metrics they're authorized to access.
• Data Sensitivity Labels: Automatically applied to protect PII or restricted information.
• Query-Level Audit Logs: Every action is logged for compliance and review.
• Human-in-the-Loop Certification: Metrics and models remain verified through user review before being published.

By combining AI automation with governance-by-design, Codd ensures that collaboration never comes at the expense of compliance or data integrity.

Why It Matters

By bringing Codd AI into Slack, analytics finally meets collaboration where it happens. Your teams can explore, discuss, and act on insights in real time - backed by governance, explainability, and trust.

• Instant insights: Ask questions and get certified answers instantly.
• Reduced friction: No switching between dashboards or BI tools.
• Consistent context: Every answer aligns with your governed business logic.
• Empowered teams: Everyone - not just analysts - can access and understand data.

Codd AI turns analytics into a conversation - intelligent, contextual, and fully embedded in the way modern teams work.

Ready to Explore?

See how Codd AI transforms everyday conversations into governed, contextual analytics - all within Slack. Experience the power of agentic analytics that combines your data, metrics, and business knowledge into one intelligent workspace.

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