# How to Chat and Ask Questions to Rudder Lookout



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    <div class="tip-text"><strong>Rudder Lookout</strong> is currently in <strong>Public Beta</strong>. <a href="mailto:product@rudderstack.com" >Contact the Product team</a> if you have any questions.</div>
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<p>Chat is the primary surface in Lookout and the entry point for almost everything else. You ask a question in plain English, and the Lookout agent inspects your data, runs a read-only query, and returns a durable chart or table.</p>
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<h2 id="ask-a-question">Ask a question</h2><p>Open a new chat and describe what you want to know — for example:</p>
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<p>How many signups did we get last week, by source?</p>
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<p>The agent:</p>
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<li>Inspects the relevant tables and schema in your connected warehouse</li>
<li>Writes read-only SQL to answer the question</li>
<li>Runs the query against your warehouse and returns the result as a chart or table in the conversation</li>
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<p>Because the agent reasons over your actual data journey — events, Tracking Plans, and the warehouse they land in — its answers are grounded in how your data really moves, not guessed from table names alone.</p>

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    <div class="tip-text"><p>Warehouse access is <strong>read-only</strong>. The agent can list tables, inspect schema, and run queries, but it can&rsquo;t write to or change your data.</p>
<p>See <a href="https://www.rudderstack.com/docs/activate/lookout/integrations/warehouses/" >Warehouses</a> for more details.</p>
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<h2 id="results-are-durable">Results are durable</h2><p>The charts and tables the agent produces are saved as durable bubbles in the transcript — they are results you can return to. From there you can:</p>
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<li>Ask follow-up questions to refine or re-scope the answer</li>
<li>Save the answer as a <a href="https://www.rudderstack.com/docs/activate/lookout/working-with-lookout/dashboards/" >dashboard</a> for repeated use</li>
<li>Move from a warehouse number, to the Tracking Plan definition behind it, to the audience built on it — all in the same conversation</li>
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<h2 id="beyond-questions">Beyond questions</h2><p>The same chat surface is where you drive the rest of Lookout. Depending on what your workspace has connected, you can ask the Lookout agent to:</p>
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<li>Build and edit <a href="https://www.rudderstack.com/docs/activate/lookout/working-with-lookout/dashboards/" >dashboards</a></li>
<li>Reference the generated <a href="https://www.rudderstack.com/docs/activate/lookout/working-with-lookout/context-hub/" >documentation</a> of your data to ground its answers (generating that documentation happens in the Context Hub, not from chat)</li>
<li>Build and refine <a href="https://www.rudderstack.com/docs/activate/lookout/audiences/" >audiences</a> from your warehouse data</li>
<li>Read your GitHub repositories for context on how your data is produced</li>
<li>Read your <a href="https://www.rudderstack.com/docs/activate/lookout/integrations/rudderstack/" >RudderStack</a> resources, including sources, destinations, transformations, Tracking Plans, and Audiences</li>
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<h2 id="chat-from-slack">Chat from Slack</h2><p>You can talk to the same agent from Slack — by direct message or in a bound channel — without opening the web app. See <a href="https://www.rudderstack.com/docs/activate/lookout/integrations/slack/" >Slack</a>.</p>
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