From Black Box to Clarity: 3 New Ways runQL Helps You Get Trusted Answers, Faster
July 29, 2025
We're introducing three new updates designed to make getting trusted answers faster, easier, and more transparent for both business users and data teams. From increased visibility into how data questions are resolved, to a smarter way of seeding new answers for data sources, to flexible parameter selection, these enhancements are built to reduce friction and improve confidence across the board.
Observability on Business Answers New
In organizations today, there is very little insight into how long a business question takes to answer. Even when using most modern Conversational Analytics solutions there is little insight into how a question was answered or the total time to insight.
runQL changes that by enabling:
- Full visibility into how each question is answered
- A breakdown of whether the answer came from a verified query, semantic model, data analyst, or was AI assisted
- Time-to-response tracking for every request
- Feedback collection from business users to measure answer satisfaction
- Continuous workflow improvements based on real usage data
Answers Library Seeding New
In organizations today, when a new data source is added, business users are often stuck waiting. It can take weeks before the data team builds anything usable, and in the meantime, requests pile up and go unanswered. Even when answers come, they’re often one-off and hard to reuse or worse yet - different business users get different answers!
runQL accelerates access to insights by enabling a workflow for data teams:
- Using AI to suggest category-based seed questions from metadata and synthetic data
- Generating suggested SQL to answer those questions
- data analysts can easily review, edit, and approve each question and SQL answer
- Giving instantly verified Q&As for the Answers Library to enable business users.
This enables your organization to have consistent answers for all business users
Parameter Improvements Update
Business users often need slightly different versions of the same report, filtered by region, timeframe, or product line. But today, getting that variation usually means another request to the data team, another delay, and another static output.
runQL makes query customization seamless by:
- Displaying predefined parameters when a query supports filtering
- Letting business users select options (like dropdowns) instead of rewriting questions
- Reducing the need for repeated analyst involvement
- Delivering faster, more tailored answers directly inside the chat experience
— The runQL Team