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AI-powered features in Sigma help accelerate analysis and reduce friction when understanding data, building logic, and interpreting outputs.

The use of AI features is subject to the following disclaimer.

Depending on the AI features configured for your organization and enabled for your account type, you can use AI capabilities throughout Sigma to explore data, design and build workbooks, gain insights, and more.

Get data insights

Use Sigma Assistant to discover insights and get answers about your data.

  • Ask questions about specific data sources, workbooks, elements, etc.
  • Review responses and explore AI-generated charts and tables.
  • Ask follow-up questions to refine the analysis.
Build agentic solutions

Build agents in Sigma to curate insights and take action:

  • Provide instructions, data sources, and actions to customized agents in a workbook.
  • Enhance agent context with warehouse agents, MCP connectors, and warehouse search services.
  • Automate agents on a schedule or chat with them in a workbook.
Access Sigma from AI tools and assistants

Connect Sigma to AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Codex, and more:

  • Search documents, build workbooks, and query data with the Sigma MCP server and plugin.
  • Configure the Sigma CLI to give agents simple, structured commands for the Sigma REST API.
Generate AI-driven output in tables

Call warehouse-hosted AI functions directly in Sigma to analyze or transform data:

  • Analyze sentiment or classify text data.
  • Extract key information from unstructured text.
  • Generate summaries from large text fields.
Write and troubleshoot formulas

Write, correct, and explain formulas and functions in Sigma with the formula assistant:

  • Describe what to calculate and review the suggested formula.
  • Fix syntax and logic issues in existing formulas.
  • Understand what existing formulas do in plain language.
Understand charts

Request detailed explanations of charts to understand what’s visualized:

  • Generate an AI-powered summary of any chart.
  • Review key insights, observations, data distribution, etc.
  • Copy the output to share or add to a workbook.