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What is Databricks Genie One?

Summary

  • Databricks Genie One is a data-smart AI coworker for business users that expands Genie beyond conversational analytics into agentic work.
  • It lets business users ask data questions in natural language and get answers grounded in their organization's data, governed by Unity Catalog so every answer respects enterprise permissions.
  • Beyond answers, Genie One can take actions across workflows, draft and share documents, work with uploaded files, run scheduled tasks, and connect to external tools via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
  • It is available across Slack, Microsoft Teams, mobile apps, and the desktop, so people can use it where they already work.
  • Genie One works with Genie Agents (the domain-specific environments that supply trusted data and metrics) and Genie Ontology (the context layer that grounds and sharpens its answers).

What is Databricks Genie One?

Databricks Genie One is a data-smart AI coworker for business users. It expands Genie beyond conversational analytics into agentic work: a simplified interface where business users discover data, ask questions in natural language, and receive answers grounded in their organization's data. Genie One is governed through Unity Catalog, so every answer respects enterprise data permissions. It was introduced alongside Genie Ontology and Genie Agents in the Databricks blog Introducing Genie One, Genie Ontology, and Genie Agents.

What Genie One does

  • Answers data questions in natural language. Ask questions and get answers grounded in your organization's governed data, without writing SQL.
  • Takes agentic actions. Go beyond receiving answers to completing multi-step work across business workflows.
  • Works where you do. Available across Slack, Microsoft Teams, mobile apps (iOS and Android), and desktop applications.
  • Collaborates on documents. Draft, edit, comment on, and share documents directly within Genie One for executive-ready reports.
  • Works with your files. Upload images, Word documents, CSV, and Excel files into a conversation for richer context.
  • Runs scheduled tasks. Set up recurring tasks, including delivery of PDF email attachments.
  • Connects to external tools. Integrate external tools and sources through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), including write capabilities.

How Genie One relates to Genie Agents and Genie Ontology

Genie One, Genie Agents, and Genie Ontology work together as one system, all built on the same governed foundation in Unity Catalog. See the Genie documentation.

  • Genie Agents (formerly Genie Agents) are domain-specific environments where data teams configure the trusted data, metrics, and business rules that power Genie One's answers. Teams can turn a single prompt into a shareable, autonomous agent that reasons over both structured and unstructured data, performs multi-step work such as MCP connections and scheduled tasks, generates documents, and writes to external systems.
  • Genie Ontology is the unified context layer that grounds every Genie interaction. It brings together two kinds of context: Unity Catalog semantics that you define, govern, and certify through metric views, domains, and Pages; and inferred context, which is automatically extracted from existing assets such as metric views, dashboards, SQL queries, and Genie Agents. Each inferred snippet gets an authority score based on where it was generated, how often it is used, and how fresh it is, and all snippets are gated by Unity Catalog permissions so Genie One answers using only sources you are allowed to see.

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FAQs

How is Genie One different from Genie Ontology?

Genie One is the user-facing AI coworker that business users interact with to ask questions and take actions. Genie Ontology is the underlying context layer that grounds and sharpens those answers by building and maintaining a business-aware map of your data. In short, Genie One is what users interact with; Genie Ontology is what makes it smarter.

Who is Genie One for?

Genie One is designed for business users. It provides a simplified interface to discover data, ask questions in plain language, and act on the answers, without requiring SQL or deep technical skills.

How is Genie One governed?

Genie One is governed through Unity Catalog. Answers respect enterprise data permissions, and the context Genie Ontology uses is gated by Unity Catalog permissions so users only see sources they are authorized to access.

What are Genie Agents?

Genie Agents (formerly Genie Agents) are domain-specific environments where data teams configure the trusted data, metrics, and business rules that power Genie One. They can be turned into shareable, autonomous agents that reason over structured and unstructured data and take action across business tools.

The information provided herein is for general informational purposes only and may not reflect the most current product capabilities or configurations.