The new standard for metadata documentation: Meet your new AI writing assistant

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Modern organizations are moving beyond simple cataloging to prepare data for seamless consumption by both humans and AI agents. However, manual documentation can no longer keep pace with the sheer volume of new assets, leading to inconsistent or empty metadata that erodes user trust. To bridge this gap, businesses must automate the creation of high-quality context to ensure their data remains understandable and ready for action.

What’s new: AI-powered writing assistant

Collibra's new AI-powered writing assistant is a new feature intended to enhance productivity and content quality by providing intelligent support for writing, transforming, summarizing and explaining text within asset pages.

It is designed to help anyone, from Data Stewards to business stakeholders, create high-quality content for any rich text field while ensuring data integrity remains a top priority.

Automating asset with AI

While Collibra AI initially automated descriptions for tables and columns, we are now extending this power to every asset in the platform. Our new AI-powered writing assistant leverages the full context of your metadata to generate meaningful, one-click contextual suggestions for rich text attributes. By leveraging full metadata context and customizable prompts, it exponentially increases data relevancy while shifting stewards from manual writers to strategic curators.

The writing assistant addresses key challenges faced by users when creating and refining text:

Content quality issues: Poor grammar, unclear tone or overly complex language reduce effectiveness and collaboration
Time-consuming editing: Manually refining and summarizing text wastes valuable time
Consistency gaps: Content generated across teams may lack consistency in structure, style or clarity

By providing AI-powered suggestions, the writing assistant empowers users to focus on high-value tasks while automating repetitive or error-prone text refinement work.

How our new AI-powered writing assistant works

Administrators can configure the assistant by defining how AI generates consistent content for any text attribute.

These instructions guide how context should be generated and align with your governance standards including specific tone, style and formatting guidelines. This prompt design configuration is done at the level of your federated operating model, giving you precise control and speed either set centrally by the data office or locally by line of business.

Administrators can design and refine prompts within a dedicated testing field on the configuration page, allowing them to iterate on and verify output before applying it.

When a user is ready to leverage the writing assistant, a simple click of the AI icon triggers the assistant to analyze the asset's metadata and produce a contextually relevant draft.

Instantly generate new text based on saved prompts and contextual information.

This automation fundamentally shifts the user's workflow from writer to reviewer, allowing data stewards to bypass the daunting blank page and move straight to validating high-quality text.

Why you should be excited

Collibra’s new AI-powered writing assistant is designed to enhance productivity and content quality, delivering targeted value to key personas across your data governance ecosystem:

For Data Stewards: Drastically reduce the time spent "staring at a blank page" by using AI to draft initial contextual suggestions for any text attribute. Easily transform technical jargon into business-friendly language for broader consumption
For Administrators: Enforce governance standards by pre-configuring AI prompts that guide every output. By engineering these templates upfront, you eliminate guesswork for data stewards and guarantee consistent, high-quality context for every asset
For Data Consumers: Enjoy more consistent, readable and high-quality documentation that makes finding and understanding data easier than ever

AI powered writing assistant helps these personas:

Auto-generate descriptions: Instantly create a business-friendly description for a newly ingested technical table
Summarize metadata: Distill complex asset histories or technical notes into a concise three-sentence summary
Transform tone: Take a dry, technical definition and "transform" it into a clear, accessible explanation for executive reporting

Key takeaways about the AI-powered writing assistant

Collibra’s AI-powered writing assistant isn't just a productivity tool; it's a quality multiplier. By reducing manual effort and closing the consistency gap, it ensures that your metadata landscape remains a trusted source of truth. It’s about more than just writing, it’s about ensuring every person in your organization can find, understand and trust the data they need.

Join Collibra’s Spring Product Premiere to:

Discover the latest advancements in our Spring 2026 release
See how our writing assistant analyzes complete asset metadata to generate high-quality accurate text for every data field
Learn how to get started

Zuzana Zatrochova

Zuzana Zatrochova

Senior Product Manager

Collibra
Meredith Bailey

Meredith Bailey

Senior Product Marketing Manager

Collibra
Volodymyr Iliushchenko

Volodymyr Iliushchenko

Software Engineer

Collibra