> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.getcollate.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Step 4 - Explore Features

> Discover key Collate features after setup — browse the catalog, view lineage, check data quality, and explore governance and collaboration tools.

## Explore Features

Once metadata is ingested and your team is set up, explore what Collate has surfaced.

**Browse your Data Assets**

Open **Explore** in the main navigation to browse ingested tables, dashboards, pipelines, and models. Use natural language search to find assets by name, owner, tag, tier, or description.

**View Lineage**

Navigate to any table or column and select the **Lineage** tab. Collate automatically maps upstream sources and downstream consumers so you understand the full impact of any change before making it. [Data Quality Tab](/how-to-guides/data-quality-observability/quality/tab).

**What to try next:**

* Check the advanced guide about roles and policies to fine-tune role or team access to data. See [Advanced Guide for Roles and Policies](/how-to-guides/admin-guide/roles-policies).
* Build no-code data quality tests directly on a table to start monitoring data health. See [Data Quality Tab](/how-to-guides/data-quality-observability/quality/tab).
* Write a knowledge center article to document business context for a key asset. [Overview of Knowledge Center](/how-to-guides/data-collaboration/knowledge-center).
* Review data insights reports for ownership coverage, governance KPIs, and cost analysis. [Data Insights Report](/how-to-guides/data-insights/report).
* Set up metadata automations to auto-assign owners, tiers, domains, and glossary terms. [Collate Automations](/how-to-guides/data-governance/automation/index).
* Try **AskCollate** to query your metadata catalog in natural language. [Ask Collate](/collate-ai/ask-collate).

## Metadata Platform

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    Surface every asset instantly with unified metadata search, rich profiling, and automated tagging.
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    Define and enforce policies, ownership, and lifecycle rules to keep your data secure and compliant.
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    Track data end-to-end with visual lineage that shows transformations, dependencies, and impact in seconds.
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    Monitor freshness, completeness, and anomalies with rule-based and automated quality insights.
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    Turn metadata into actionable analytics with dashboards for usage, quality, governance, and adoption.
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    A built-in SQL workspace to query datasets, preview transformations, and validate metadata in real time.
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## Collate AI

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    Ask natural-language questions and let AI surface metadata, insights, and recommended actions.
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    Your conversational interface for querying metadata, documentation, lineage, and governance controls.
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    Create and manage AI agents and personas to automate metadata discovery, governance reviews, and data quality workflows.
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    Classify Business-Critical Data with Collate AI Tier Agent.
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    Enhance Data Quality with Collate AI Quality Agent.
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    Automate Metadata Descriptions with Collate AI Documentation Agent.
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