How to Chat and Ask Questions to Rudder Lookout Private Beta

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.

Ask a question

Open a new chat and describe what you want to know — for example:

How many signups did we get last week, by source?

The agent:

1. Inspects the relevant tables and schema in your connected warehouse
2. Writes read-only SQL to answer the question
3. Runs the query against your warehouse and returns the result as a chart or table in the conversation

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.

Warehouse access is read-only. The agent can list tables, inspect schema, and run queries, but it can’t write to or change your data.

See Warehouses for more details.

Results are durable

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:

• Ask follow-up questions to refine or re-scope the answer
• Save the answer as a dashboard for repeated use
• Move from a warehouse number to the tracking-plan definition behind it, to the instrumentation code that emits it — all in the same conversation

Beyond questions

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:

• Build and edit dashboards
• Reference the generated documentation of how your events are instrumented to ground its answers (Generating that documentation happens in the Context Hub, not from chat)
• Draft Measurement Plans for tracking changes
• Explore your GitHub and GitLab repositories and propose changes as pull requests
• Read and manage your RudderStack resources, including sources, destinations, transformations, Tracking Plans, and Audiences

Chat from Slack

You can talk to the same agent from Slack — by direct message or in a bound channel — without opening the web app. See Slack.