Data engineers didn’t sign up to be technical writers. Yet documentation is critical for your team, your stakeholders, and your future self. That’s why we built the Coalesce AI Documentation Assistant—a fast, accurate way to document transformation pipelines without slowing down your work.
Why we built it
Documentation is time-consuming, repetitive, and all too often simply doesn’t get done. Writing column descriptions and commit messages usually takes a back seat to shipping features. Over time, this trade-off inevitably creates problems: onboarding new team members slows down, handoffs get messy, unclear transformation logic causes confusion across teams.
We built the Coalesce AI Documentation Assistant to solve these challenges. It uses transformation metadata and lineage to automatically generate node and column descriptions with clear explanations of what’s happening, how data is transformed, and why it matters, as well as Git commit messages for a cleaner, more useful Git history. In short, documentation happens automatically and stays consistent and easy to understand, freeing up data teams to focus on delivering projects efficiently and working closely with the business.
Why use AI documentation?
AI-generated documentation removes a common bottleneck—and, dare we say, a pain in the neck—for data engineers. Writing documentation is important, yet repetitive and time-consuming. By using AI-generated documentation, data teams spend less time writing repetitive descriptions and commit messages, so they can stay focused on their actual work.
Having intelligent, automated documentation encourages consistency and governance across projects, helping to avoid gaps or mismatched terminology between teams. Clear, natural language descriptions make it easier for analysts and business stakeholders to understand the logic used to build data pipelines, and new team members can ramp up quickly by reading documentation that’s consistent and easy to follow.
Start using the AI Documentation Assistant today
The AI Documentation Assistant is off by default in Coalesce. To turn it on:
- Go to Org Settings.
- Open Preferences.
- Toggle on both Node and Column Descriptions and Auto Generated Git Commit Messages to enjoy our full AI Documentation Assistant experience.
Please note that only organization admins can enable AI features.
See it in action
We’ll be demoing the AI Documentation Assistant during Demos with Doug on Thursday, April 10—including how it works alongside Coalesce Catalog. Register here to see it live.