Comparison Between Dashboard Q&A and AI Search

This table compares Dashboard Q&A and the AI Assistant (AI Search) so you can choose the right tool for your questions.

	Dashboard Q&A	AI Assistant
Availability	Chrome Extension	Coalesce Catalog App, Slack bot, Microsoft Teams, Dust, Public API
Purpose	Answer your question regarding one single dashboard	Answer your question and gather the relevant assets
Input	Your question; the target dashboard (based on URLs)	Your question
Output	An answer to your question	An answer to your question; a list of relevant assets used to generate the answer
Context	Takes into account one single dashboard, with deeper and more detailed information related to that dashboard	Searches for many assets (dashboards, tables, terms, columns) with more generic information. For Catalog assets (tables, dashboards, or columns), also takes into account assets pinned to knowledge pages (terms) that are related to your question