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In this quickstart, you’ll load demo e-commerce data, watch AstroBee build a semantic data layer, and ask business questions in plain English—all in under 10 minutes.
Prerequisites: Create an account and sign in before you begin.

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Load Demo Data

After signing in, you’ll land on the Data Hub. For new accounts, AstroBee offers demo datasets to help you explore the platform.
Data Hub with demo data options

The Data Hub shows options to load demo data or connect your own

Click Basic E-Commerce to load a pre-configured dataset with:
  • Customers — Customer information and purchase history
  • Products — Product catalog with categories and pricing
  • Orders — Transaction records linking customers to products
Loading demo data

Demo data loading with pattern analysis

Once loaded, AstroBee automatically:
  1. Analyzes patterns in your data columns (e.g., ID formats, email patterns)
  2. Discovers linkages between tables (e.g., orders.customer_id → customers.customer_id)

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Explore Your Data

Click on any table to preview its data and see discovered patterns:
Table detail view

Table preview showing customer data

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Pattern Analysis

AstroBee automatically identifies patterns in your columns. Click the pattern icon next to a column to see details:
Column patterns

Pattern analysis showing Customer ID format

Pattern analysis helps AstroBee understand your data semantics and suggest appropriate entity mappings.

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Build Your Data Layer

Navigate to Data Layer in the sidebar. This is where you define how your business concepts map to your raw data.

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Connect Data Sources

  1. Click the Sources tab
  2. Click Connect next to your E-Commerce data source
Sources tab

Connect data sources to your data layer

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Generate with AI

Click Generate Data Layer from selected Sources. AstroBee’s AI will ask a few questions to understand your business:
Generation questionnaire

AstroBee asks about your primary business questions

Select your answers and AstroBee will:
  1. Analyze your connected data sources
  2. Identify entities (Customer, Product, Order, OrderItem)
  3. Map relationships between them
  4. Bind entities to source tables
Generation complete

Generated data layer summary

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Review the Graph

Switch to the Data Layer tab to see your entities visualized:
Data layer graph

Graph view showing entity relationships

The graph shows:
  • Customer (dimension) — Individual customers
  • Product (dimension) — Products in your catalog
  • Order (fact) — Customer transactions
  • OrderItem (bridge) — Line items linking orders to products

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Review and Publish

Click Review to see all pending changes before publishing:
Review panel

Review panel showing entities and relationships to publish

Click Publish all pending changes to make your data layer active.

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Ask Questions

With your data layer published, you’re ready to ask questions! Click New Chat in the sidebar.
New chat

Chat interface ready for questions

Type a question in plain English:
Chat response

AstroBee answers with the result

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View the SQL

Click SQL to see the exact query AstroBee generated:
SQL view

Generated SQL query

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Understand the Logic

Click Logic to see how AstroBee reasoned through your question:
Logic view

Explanation of how the answer was derived

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Full Report

Click Full Report for a complete breakdown:
Full report

Complete answer report with question, answer, SQL, and logic

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Try More Questions

Now explore your data with more questions:
Each answer shows the SQL and logic, so you always understand how AstroBee arrived at the result.

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Next Steps

Connect Your Data

Connect your own data sources—files, databases, or business tools

Data Layer Deep Dive

Learn more about editing and versioning your data layer

Analytics Features

Explore charts, exports, and advanced query features

MCP Integration

Query your data from Claude Desktop or VS Code
Need help? Contact us at hello@astrobee.ai.