Cognia Labs Introduces SynthQuery for Natural Language Database Exploration

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SynthQuery provides an interface for data consumers to ask questions in natural language and receive tables, charts, or SQL that analysts can refine. Unlike generic LLM-equipped layers, SynthQuery emphasizes query correctness and explainability by combining symbolic planners with grounding against live schema and instance data.

The product includes connectors to common warehouses, permission-aware results, and a suggested-safe mode that returns provenance of each record in answers. Cognia also offers a 'guided analyst' mode where suggestions include index hints and join strategies for engineers.

Cognia raised $18 million in a round led by DataBridge Partners. Proceeds will fund model engineering to reduce hallucinations, expand connectors, and build enterprise governance features for regulated industries.