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Ask Alteryx

Your AI Partner for Analytics

 

Get started fast with your natural-language AI partner for analytics.

Meet Ask Alteryx — your AI partner for onboarding, building workflows, and uncovering insights in Alteryx One. Just ask a question or describe your goal, and Ask Alteryx turns it into action in seconds.

 
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Get Started Easier

Getting started with analytics is simple with Ask Alteryx. Go from blank canvas to first insight in minutes by connecting your data and building your first workflow — no steep learning curve, just early wins that build confidence fast.

 
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Stay Focused

As you build, Ask Alteryx helps you stay in the flow. Get AI-guided suggestions for your next step or tool, right on the canvas, and instantly summarize complex workflows into clear explanations.

 
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Work Smarter, Build Faster

Let Ask Alteryx handle the busywork so you can spend more time on what matters. It quickly tackles tedious tasks, places tools directly on your canvas, and manages configuration details, freeing you to focus on what makes analytics fun: uncovering insights and solving problems.

 

Having an AI component built directly into the Alteryx interface is a huge game changer. Ask Alteryx is an incredible asset to help new Alteryx users get up and running with data analytics, much easier and faster.

Michael Keiffer

CPA, MPK Data Analytics

 

Frequently asked questions

 
What happened to Alteryx Copilot?

Alteryx Copilot is now called Ask Alteryx. The new name reflects how users interact with the assistant inside Designer Desktop using natural language.

Ask Alteryx continues to support AI-assisted workflow development directly within Designer Desktop, including:

  • Workflow guidance and tool recommendations
  • Workflow summaries and documentation support
  • Tool configuration assistance
  • Workflow troubleshooting
  • Suggested next steps for workflow development
 
What can Ask Alteryx help users do inside Designer Desktop?

Ask Alteryx helps users build workflows faster inside Designer Desktop using natural language. Users can ask questions, troubleshoot workflows, and receive contextual recommendations while they work.

With Ask Alteryx, users can:

  • Add and configure supported tools on the canvas
  • Summarize and document workflows
  • Troubleshoot workflow issues
  • Explain Designer Desktop tools and functionality
  • Recommend next steps during workflow development
  • Run workflows directly from the assistant
 
How does Ask Alteryx manage data access, privacy, and AI controls?

Ask Alteryx includes workspace-level controls that help organizations manage how data is accessed during AI-assisted workflow development. By default, Ask Alteryx only accesses workflow metadata, workflow XML, and dataset metadata when a user submits a prompt.

If Data Awareness is enabled, Ask Alteryx can also access workflow data to provide more context-aware assistance. Workspace Admins can disable Data Awareness at the workspace level to limit how Ask Alteryx samples data.

Ask Alteryx privacy and governance controls include:

  • Workspace-level admin controls for Ask Alteryx access
  • Role-based access management
  • Encryption for data in transit and at rest
  • No model training or fine-tuning using customer workflows or data
  • Prompt-based response generation using runtime context rather than persistent model changes

Ask Alteryx uses Google Gemini models hosted through Google Cloud Vertex AI services.

 
How do admins manage access to Ask Alteryx and Data Awareness?

Workspace Admins manage Ask Alteryx access through role-based permissions and workspace settings in Alteryx One. By default, users with Basic or Full User roles on Professional or Enterprise Editions can access Ask Alteryx.

Admins can create custom roles to limit which users or teams can access Ask Alteryx capabilities. They can also manage Data Awareness settings at the workspace level to control whether Ask Alteryx can sample workflow data.

With Data Awareness disabled, Ask Alteryx is limited to workflow metadata, workflow XML, and dataset metadata rather than the underlying workflow data itself.

Admins can centrally manage:

  • Ask Alteryx user access
  • Data Awareness settings
  • Workspace-level AI controls
  • Role-based permissions for AI-assisted workflow features
 

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