Checking a table's owner
Sarah Chen, analyst at Northwind, asked who owned the customers table and whether it was verified. Memtro read the resource with its owners, tags, documentation and verified flag.
Secoda + Memtro
Who owns this table, and are any data-quality incidents open?
Secoda shows you catalog resources such as tables, columns, dashboards and metrics, with their descriptions, documentation, owners, tags and usage. It reads monitors and data-quality incidents, documents, questions and their answers, lineage between resources, and tags. When asked and granted, it can document or verify a resource, write, edit or delete documents, and ask or answer a question. It can also add tags, collections and lineage, run monitors, delete a resource or lineage link, and invite a user. Running a monitor queries the warehouse. Memtro never reads users, audit logs or integration credentials.
In Memtro
What you can do with Secoda in Memtro
Ask in plain English from chat, your editor, a scheduled job or your own agent. The model picks the right Secoda tool, reads what it needs, and answers with the source cited.
What it does
- 01Searches the catalog for tables, columns, dashboards, metrics and glossary terms with owners, tags and usage.
- 02Reads monitors and data-quality incidents, with the value that triggered each incident.
- 03Reads documents, questions with their accepted answer, manual lineage links and tags.
- 04When asked and granted, edits a resource's description, documentation, owners, tags or verified flag, or writes and edits documents.
- 05When asked and granted, asks a question, which notifies its assignee, or answers one, which the asker sees.
- 06When asked and granted, runs monitors against the warehouse, adds tags, collections or lineage, or invites a user, who is emailed.
Acts when asked
When you ask it to
These tools change something in Secoda. The model is told to use them only when you ask for exactly that, and an administrator grants each one by name to the teams that may use it; a personal connection acts only after its owner allows it.
- 01Create a document
- 02Edit a document
- 03Delete a document
- 04Edit a resource's description, documentation, owners, tags or flags
- 05Delete a catalog resource
- 06Ask a question (the assignee is notified)
- 07Answer a question
- 08Create a tag
- 09Create a collection
- 10Run monitors now (queries the warehouse)
- 11Add lineage between two resources
- 12Delete a lineage link
- 13Invite a user to the workspace
In practice
Ask it like you would a colleague
Once Secoda is connected, these are the kinds of things people ask. Plain questions, no syntax. If the answer lives partly in another system you have connected, Memtro looks there too.
Secoda + MemtroWhich data-quality incidents are active right now?
Who owns the orders table?
What feeds the revenue dashboard?
Is there a document on how churn is defined?
Which questions are still unanswered?
Documenting a metric
Tom Reilly, data lead at BigCo, asked Memtro to add the agreed definition to the net revenue metric. With the action granted, Memtro updated its description in Secoda, where the workspace sees it.
Teams
Where it fits
The teams that lean on Secoda most, a question each of them asks, and what they connect beside it.
- Data and analyticsQuestions answered from the warehouse, with the SQL shownAnalyst, Data engineer, Anybody with a question, Head of data“Revenue by segment for Q3 from the warehouse, with the SQL you used”Used alongside Postgres, Stripe, Slack, Google Drive, Snowflake and 3 more.
- EngineeringKeep decisions from evaporatingEngineer, Tech lead, On call, New joiner“Who owns the billing migration, and what did we decide about retries?”Used alongside GitHub, Linear, Jira, Confluence, Slack and 5 more.
- FinanceAsk the ledger questions in plain EnglishFinance lead, Credit control, Management accountant, Founder or CFO“Which invoices over £5k are more than 30 days overdue?”Used alongside Xero, Stripe, Postgres, HubSpot, QuickBooks Online and 10 more.
Better together
Works with
A record in Secoda is rarely the whole story. Connect the systems that hold the rest and Memtro checks them together, then remembers what it learned so the next question starts further along.
- AnalyticsSecoda with Google Analytics 4Ask your traffic questions in plain English and get the numbers back.
- AnalyticsSecoda with Plausible AnalyticsAsk about your website traffic in plain English.
- AnalyticsSecoda with UmamiAsk about your website traffic in plain English, without sending anybody to a dashboard.
- Finance and commerceSecoda with XeroInvoices, bills, contacts and reports, answered in plain English with figures cited to Xero.
- Finance and commerceSecoda with StripeCustomers, charges, invoices and subscriptions through a restricted key.
- Finance and commerceSecoda with FellohBookings, payments, refunds, chargebacks, supplier payments and payouts from the travel payments platform.
- Work managementSecoda with JiraJQL search, issue details and projects from Jira Cloud.
- Work managementSecoda with Clio ManageAsk the matter: its client, its fee earner, the time on it and what is still unbilled.
- Work managementSecoda with LinearIssues, projects and teams, synced hourly into memory.
Also in Databases and warehouses
Using something else for the same job, or both? Each connector has its own tools; connect as many as you like.
- Postgres
- MySQL and MariaDB
- SQL Server
- BigQuery
- Snowflake
- AWS Athena
- MongoDB
- ClickHouse
- Amazon Redshift
- Databricks
- Elasticsearch
- dbt Cloud
- Fivetran
- Neon
- Appwrite
Grist- Hasura
- Meilisearch
NocoDB- Qdrant
Typesense
Weaviate
Tinybird
Hightouch
Census- Airbyte
- Budibase
- CockroachDB Cloud
- Cube Cloud
- DataHub
kintone
Monte Carlo
OpenMetadata- Pinecone
- PlanetScale
- Quickbase
Softr
Teable- Turso
- Upstash
Vectara- Xata
- Zilliz Cloud
Setup
How to connect
Connect withAPI key
- 1
In Secoda open Workspace settings, then API, and generate a new API key as a service-account user with only the access Memtro needs.
- 2
In Memtro open Connections → Secoda and paste the API key. Set API host only for EU, APAC or on-premise Secoda.
- 3
An administrator grants the documentation, monitor and delete actions by name to the teams that may use them.
- 4
Ask: which data-quality incidents are active right now?
Also works from
Chat in the dashboard, the OpenAI-compatible API, scheduled jobs, and any MCP client: Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor, Claude Desktop. The Secoda tools are the same everywhere.
FAQ
Questions
Can Memtro change anything in Secoda?+
Only when you ask, and only what it has been granted: create a document; edit a document; delete a document; edit a resource's description, documentation, owners, tags or flags; delete a catalog resource; ask a question (the assignee is notified); answer a question; create a tag; create a collection; run monitors now (queries the warehouse); add lineage between two resources; delete a lineage link; invite a user to the workspace. Every other tool reads, searches or lists. The Connections page labels the tools that act, an administrator grants each one by name to the teams that may use it, and a personal connection acts only after its owner allows it.
Who can use a Secoda connection?+
A personal connection serves only your own requests. A shared connection serves the organisation: everyone, or only the teams an admin chooses. Admins can always add shared connections; other members need the permission.
Does Memtro store my Secoda data?+
Credentials are encrypted at rest. Tool results are cached briefly so agent loops do not repeat identical calls, and the facts the model extracts are saved to your organisation's memory with provenance (system, record and link) so they can be checked and superseded.
How do I connect Secoda?+
API key. In Secoda open Workspace settings, then API, and generate a new API key as a service-account user with only the access Memtro needs.
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