# Select Star
> Metadata Context for Data & AI: Modern data governance platform that provides automated data catalog, data lineage, and semantic models built on your existing data, designed to get your data AI-ready for both humans and AI systems.

## About us
Select Star is a modern data governance platform that helps organizations manage and understand their data at scale, enabling AI, analytics, and self-service across the business. It automatically catalogs datasets, traces end-to-end lineage, and builds a shared business glossary and semantic layer, so teams can confidently work with trusted data. With a user-friendly data portal and built-in automation, Select Star supports use cases including data democratization, data governance, semantic layers, and cloud data migrations, serving as a foundational layer for enterprise AI and data initiatives.

## Features
- [Automated Data Catalog](https://www.selectstar.com/product/data-catalog): Instantly find the most relevant data and capture tribal knowledge easily to build a single source of truth
- [Column-Level Data Lineage](https://www.selectstar.com/product/data-lineage): 
- [Ask AI](https://www.selectstar.com/product/ask-ai): Your AI copilot that understands your data to provide highly accurate results for any data questions in your organization
- [MCP Server for Data](https://www.selectstar.com/product/mcp-for-data): Integrate agents and LLMs with your enterprise data, accessing metadata, lineage, and semantic models through a unifed API
- [Entity-Relationship Diagrams](https://www.selectstar.com/product/entity-relationship-diagrams): Auto-generated ERDs to get a comprehensive understanding of your data models from all SQL queries and joins made in the past
- [Fine-Grained Access Control](https://www.selectstar.com/product/fine-grained-access-control): Easily adjust your data views based on user roles and asset types

## Solutions
- [AI-Powered Data Governance](https://www.selectstar.com/solutions/data-governance): Streamline data integrity, quality, and access control with Select Star's automated catalog, lineage, and documentation platform
- [AI-Powered Data Democratization](https://www.selectstar.com/solutions/data-democratization): Unlock your team's potential with an easy-to-use, complete and trusted single source of truth
- [Data Migration](https://www.selectstar.com/solutions/data-migration): Take the guesswork out of your data migration process and accelerate your time to value
- [Change Management](https://www.selectstar.com/solutions/change-management): Operationalize your workflows with Select Star's
Schema Change Detection and CI integrations
- [Cost Optimization](https://www.selectstar.com/solutions/cost-optimization): Easily deprecate unused datasets and outdated pipelines with a clear picture of compute vs. usage
- [AI-Ready Data](https://www.selectstar.com/solutions/ai-ready-data): Confidently develop and deploy AI solutions that capitalize on trusted, well-governed data across all domains
- [Semantic Model Generation](https://www.selectstar.com/solutions/semantic-model-generation): Say goodbye to blank YAML files and remodeling data. Automatically generate your semantic model from your existing BI dashboards

## Resources
- [Blog](https://www.selectstar.com/resources): Industry insights, best practices, and thought leadership on data governance, analytics, and AI
- [Case Studies](https://www.selectstar.com/case-studies): Customer success stories including HDC Hyundai, nib, Faire, and AlphaSense
- [Integrations](https://www.selectstar.com/integrations): Connect with Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift, Salesforce, Tableau, Looker, QuickSight, Thoughtspot and other popular data tools
- [Documentation](https://docs.selectstar.com/): Technical guides and feature documentation
- [Pricing](https://www.selectstar.com/pricing): 14-day free trial with Growth and Enterprise plans available
- [Book a Demo](https://www.selectstar.com/demo)
- [Comparison Pages](https://www.selectstar.com/compare): How Select Star compares to Atlan, DataHub, Secoda, and other data governance and catalog solutions