17 scenarios · launching 2026

What can you do with SemanticFed?

Scenario-driven use cases grounded in the product — from joining a live database to a warehouse in one query, to grounding an AI agent in a governed semantic layer. Pick a persona and follow the story. These are illustrative pre-launch scenarios, not real deployments.

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Analytics Engineer

Analytics & BI

Query Postgres, Snowflake, and S3 in one statement

Join operational Postgres, warehouse facts, and Parquet files in one SQL statement. SemanticFed plans the federated query and pushes filters down to each source without copying data.

Federated SQLPredicate push-downCross-source joins+1
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BI Lead

Analytics & BI

Define a metric once, use it everywhere

Define metrics once in SemanticFed’s semantic layer and consume them from SQL, BI tools, notebooks, and APIs — one governed definition for every dashboard.

Semantic layerMetric definitionsSingle source of truth+1
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Data Analyst

Analytics & BI

Give analysts safe, self-service access to everything

Browse a governed catalog of federated datasets and query them directly, with access policies and masking enforced automatically.

Data catalogSelf-servicePolicy enforcement+1
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Data Engineer

Data Engineering

Retire brittle ETL with virtual, federated views

Replace point-to-point ETL jobs with virtual views over federated sources, transformed and joined at query time with no copy to maintain.

Virtual viewsQuery-time transformsLess pipeline ops+1
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Platform Data Engineer

Data Engineering

Cut warehouse spend with cost-aware planning

SemanticFed’s planner pushes predicates, projections, and aggregations down to each source, choosing the cheapest path so only the rows you need move.

Cost-based plannerAggregate push-downQuery plans+1
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Data Engineer

Data Engineering

Cache the hot paths, federate the rest

Enable result caching or materialization for hot query paths that need millisecond latency, while everything else stays live and federated.

Result cachingMaterializationFreshness policies+1
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Data Governance Lead

Governance & Security

Enforce row- and column-level policy at the query edge

Define row filters, column masking, and access rules once in SemanticFed and enforce them on every federated query, regardless of where the data lives.

Row-level securityColumn maskingCentral policy+1
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Compliance Officer

Governance & Security

Prove who queried what, and where it came from

Every federated query is attributable and logged, and every dataset carries lineage back to its sources — so audits and access reviews are answered from one place.

Query audit trailData lineageAccess reviews+1
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Security Architect

Governance & Security

Keep data in place to honor residency rules

Query data where it lives so regulated data stays inside its residency boundary while still part of a unified model.

Data residencyQuery in placeCross-region model+1
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AI Engineer

AI & Semantic Layer

Give AI agents governed, trustworthy data context

Point AI agents at SemanticFed’s semantic layer so they reason over documented metrics with enforced access policy — grounded, reproducible answers.

Semantic contextPolicy-aware AITyped metrics+1
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Business User

AI & Semantic Layer

Turn a plain-English question into a governed query

Ask questions in plain language and resolve them against the typed semantic model, with real metric names, access policy, and inspectable generated queries.

NL to queryModel-groundedInspectable plans+1
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Data Architect

AI & Semantic Layer

See how all your data connects on a live knowledge graph

Explore modeled entities and relationships as a live knowledge graph — trace lineage, run impact analysis, and give AI agents a documented map of your data.

Knowledge graphTyped relationshipsLineage+1
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Integration Engineer

Integration & Connectors

Connect databases, warehouses, lakes, and SaaS APIs

Register databases, warehouses, lakes, and SaaS REST/GraphQL APIs as federated sources — each connector handles auth, introspection, and push-down.

Connector librarySchema introspectionAuth handling+1
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Application Developer

Integration & Connectors

Serve the whole model over one SQL and GraphQL endpoint

Expose the federated model through one SQL interface and GraphQL API so apps and tools consume governed data from a single endpoint.

SQL endpointGraphQL APIStable contract+1
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Platform Administrator

Platform & Enterprise

Run governed federation for many teams and tenants

Operate SemanticFed as shared infrastructure where every source, model, and policy belongs to a workspace — isolated, governed federation per team.

Multi-tenancyWorkspace isolationShared platform+1
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Data Reliability Engineer

Platform & Enterprise

See every query, plan, and source in one place

Monitor the query layer with per-query plans, latency and push-down metrics, and source-health signals to find bottlenecks fast.

Query observabilityPer-source metricsPlan inspection+1
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Data Platform Lead

Platform & Enterprise

Discuss models and queries inline with your team

Comment and start discussion threads directly on semantic models, entities, and saved queries so conversations live next to the work they change.

Inline commentsDiscussion threadsMentions+1
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SemanticFed launches in 2026. Join the waitlist and be among the first data and platform teams to query everything in place — without moving it.