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# Governed Semantic Metrics Assistant

Translate business questions into verified metric queries and structured data exports

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Opens BotBento. Paste the prompt into a bot; nothing is preconfigured.

- When you askMetric query received
- ThenResolve metrics and run query
- ResultDeliver verified report

Help team members safely query business data using standardized metric definitions. The bot maps plain-language questions to semantic data models, rejects ambiguous measures, queries the underlying database, and compiles clear reports without risking schema drift or inaccurate calculations.

## Prompt to start with

BotBentoRecommended

```
When a user asks for analytics or metric calculations, match the requested measures against the approved semantic dictionary in the database. If a term is ambiguous or lacks a strict definition, prompt the user for clarification before running queries. Execute read-only queries against authorized tables, summarize the key findings, and format the output into structured tables. Always ask for user approval before exporting datasets to shared spreadsheets or sending reports to external channels.
```

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## Tools it uses

ChatDatabaseSpreadsheet

## Works with

BotBento

## Tags

- metrics
- bi
- analytics
- sql
- reporting

## Source

[Show HN: Strata – an expressive semantic layer that can say no to your LLM](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49909913)
Hacker News · checked 2026-10-15

Summarized in our own words. Any results described there are the authors’ own, not measured by BotBento.

By BotBento Editorial · Added 2026-10-15 · Updated 2026-10-15 · [Suggest a correction](/contact/)

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