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# Question answering

# Question answering

Data

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Resolves which approved source actually holds a figure, queries it live, and turns the verified answer into a secure, shareable, refreshing report.
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- **Used when**
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— When someone asks how many, or wants a table, a chart or a dashboard built on current data.
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- **Loads first**
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- The usage skills for each approved source — the query contract for live activity tables, the schema-exploration skill, the persistence product, and the shared business logic.
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- The report-publishing path, only after the numbers are verified.
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- **Returns**
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- The resolved source and the query actually run.
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- The answer, with the coverage it is bounded by.
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- A local preview built from verified data, then, on approval, the published report, its refresh schedule and its access configuration.
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- **Hands off**
- Capability map — changing or provisioning a platform product rather than consuming one
- Report catalog — registering the finished report where it can be found

## Others in Data

- Counterparty document expectations
- Data-lake assistant
- Dataset fulfilment
- Knowledge search
- Metric reconciliation
- Model curator
- Pipeline control panel
- Property data exploration
- Public record ingestion
- Report catalog
- Search to production