Kater Launches AI to ask data questions in plain English

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February 9, 2026

Kater recently launched!

Launch YC: Kater: Ask data questions in plain English
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"Ask data questions in plain English"
Drive business outcomes with an AI analyst that organizes, understands, and remembers all the nuances of your company's data.
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‍Founded by Yvonne Chou and Robin Seitz


TL;DR

Instead of Slacking the data team and waiting 4 days for an answer, use Kater to get the answer in 30 seconds.


😲📸 Look! A data team member! It’s a unicorn!
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The problem:
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• Data teams are stretched thin with 10-15 ad-hoc requests a day

• Docs are almost always outdated, legacy code accumulates

• Original analysts leave, new analysts take months to onboard

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Existing “chat with your data” tools cannot answer complex questions that require joining multiple tables.


👨💼📊 Meet Butler: Your AI Data Agent
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The solution:

Butler is an AI agent that organizes the chaos of data.

Kater has found a new way to auto-document your data team’s tribal knowledge through generating a data map. Butler indexes and searches the data map using a micro-agents architecture.

After 100’s of hours of iterating with users, the Kater team has found that this method results in a much more accurate responses, and expands the context size, allowing Butler to correctly join multiple tables to answer complex questions.


🧠 Butler Continuously Learns

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Kater uses a combination of RAG and GenAI to capture any feedback users give to support future context for Butler.


30 second demo video
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‍🔗 The Set Up Process:‍

1. Simply connect Kater’s website to your data warehouse.
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2. It'll auto-generate descriptions for all your tables and columns, and immediately start building the data map for you.
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3. After you verify the data map is correct, in less than 10 minutes, you can start asking questions about your data and training Butler.

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Learn More

🌐 Visit kater.ai to learn more

📊 Kater currently supporst connections with Snowflake, Bigquery, and Microsoft SQL Server. If you have any of these (of even if you don’t, Kater can build a connector in 1 hour) and want to be able to query your data using English, reach out to the team!

🗓️ Ready to onboard your first AI data agent?
Book a demo!
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