Zenlytic vs Snowflake Intelligence: Get Transparent, Verified Answers, Not Guesswork.

Most AI tools inside warehouses generate SQL you hope is right. Zenlytic gives you answers you can trust, and shows the full reasoning behind every insight. No blind spots, no hallucinated SQL, and no guesswork hidden inside LLM magic. Zenlytic delivers clarity your team can act on, without needing a Snowflake expert in every conversation.

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Why Modern Teams Choose Zenlytic

Get Clarity, Control, and Verified Answers for Every Decision.

Zenlytic is the only AI data analyst that cannot lie. Our Clarity Engine verifies every step of the logic chain before an answer is returned — and shows you the SQL, reasoning, and citations behind it. Snowflake Cortex can generate SQL, but it can’t guarantee correctness. Zenlytic removes ambiguity so you can trust every decision

Lightning-Fast Time-to-Insight

Cortex is powerful, but it assumes your team understands Snowflake schemas, SQL, and how to clean up imperfect AI-generated queries. Zenlytic handles all of that for you automatically. Connect your warehouse, ask questions in plain English, and get accurate insights instantly — without any SQL tuning or analyst mediation

Built for all Business Users yet Powerful for Data Teams

With Cortex, most business users quickly hit a wall — they need SQL knowledge, modeling expertise, or analyst translation. Zenlytic adapts to each user, role, and metric, enabling true self-serve analytics for every department. Analysts gain leverage, not tickets; business teams finally get answers without waiting.

Governance That Doesn’t Slow You Down

Snowflake gives you governance tools, but Cortex doesn’t enforce your data rules inside the AI. Zenlytic does. With Memory and Clarity safeguards, Zenlytic ensures metrics stay consistent, definitions are followed, and your semantic rules are honored in every response — automatically, with zero overhead for the data team.

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Quick Summary:
Zenlytic vs Snowflake Intelligence

Best-in-Class
Acceptable / Mixed
Weak / Missing
Feature category
Feature
Zenlytic
snowflake intelligence
Trust, Accuracy
& Governance
Reasoning transparency
Full logic chain + citations
Opaque AI reasoning
Verification & hallucination prevention
Built-in schema + verification locks
No built-in prevention
Consistency of answers
Highly consistent
Depends on models & prompts
Traceability & SQL clarity
Human-readable verified SQL
SQL emerges from model — not always traceable
Data governance alignment
Governed by your rules
Governed via Snowflake roles/ownership
Error & ambiguity handling
Strong
Varies with prompt context
AI Intelligence &
Natural Language
NLQ (Natural language query depth)
Very strong
Very good
Context retention across queries
Strong, multi-turn memory
Minimal context memory
Intent understanding / semantic reasoning
Human-like reasoning
Good but simpler intent mapping
Predictive & proactive insights
Strong (hypothesis, forecasting)
Limited
Automated insights
Good
Emerging
Adaptability to domain & roles
Learns org-specific logic
Limited
Analytics &
BI Capabilities
Dashboard customization
Limited
Not a dashboard tool
Visualization variety
Good
Very limited (no native viz)
Narrative insights
Very strong
Moderate
SQL power-user control
Moderate
Strong (native SQL)
Embedded analytics
Basic / not core
None (requires partner stack)
Advanced BI functions (joins, blending, params)
Not the focus
Strong in SQL
Data & Platform
Integration
Native data warehouse integration
Strong — works with many warehouses
Native to Snowflake
Semantic modeling support
Automated semantic learning
Depends on Snowflake metadata
Multi-source data support
Good
Snowflake only
Third-party connectivity
Strong
Snowflake only
Scalability & Enterprise
Readiness
Performance at scale
Very good for modern warehouses
Very strong (Snowflake backbone)
Administration & governance depth
Good
Enterprise-grade (roles, policies)
Multi-user collaboration
Good
Good
Cost & Total Value
Pricing transparency & clarity
Very good
Can vary (Snowflake credits)
Total cost of ownership
Very strong for AI insights
Strong if already Snowflake customer
Use Case
Zenlytic
ThoughtSpot
Conversational analytics
Best-in-class
Limited
Fast onboarding for startups
Plug-and-play
Complex setup
Sales & Marketing enablement
Tailored workflows
More generic
Data analyst support
Works alongside analysts
Strong tooling support
Enterprise deployments
Scales well
Trusted by large enterprises

Customer Love & Case Studies

Whether it’s doubling down on channels that are performing, fixing campaigns that are broken or acting on early warning signals to reduce subscription churn rates – Zenlytic gives us the insights we need to grow.

Melissa DiNapoli, Director of Omnichannel
,
LOLA
Challenge

With LOLA’s previous analytics tools, they lacked the ability to see when and where their customer subscriptions were slipping.

Zenlytic Solution

The Zenlytic BI platform allows LOLA to identify exactly what is causing changes in subscription revenue so they can push innovative new features to combat churn. By using Zenlytic to identify, and act on early warning signs of churn, LOLA has seen higher customer satisfaction and a 10% decrease in their chun rate over the last 12 months.

Before Zenlytic, we were wasting 20+ hours per week suffering through excel files and reporting we didn’t even trust. Now the first thing I do every morning is open slack, check Zenlytic, and get to work.

VP of Marketing
,
KOIO
Challenge

KOIO was manually pulling excel files from a multitude of disparate sources (i.e. Shopify, ad platforms, website, etc) and relying on an expensive third party data consultant to provide analytics and reporting. KOIO’s team couldn’t pull reports or interactively slice their metrics on their own – rendering it impossible to capture important aspects of their business like inventory, specific product sales, acquisition channels and more.

Zenlytic Solution

Zenlytic’s data engineering support team was able to organize KOIO’s data pipelines, upgrade their data stack, and get them running on Zenlytic so that their entire team could understand the full story of their brand’s data.

Without Zenlytic, we never would have spotted these patterns. We have 100 x'ed our ability to understand what’s happening in our business.

CEO
,
Neobank
Challenge

For a DTC digital bank, security is paramount. Neo-bank noticed flagged accounts and higher default rates, signaling a possible early attempt to circumvent their fraud protection protocols. They needed to identify high-risk users, quickly and reliably.

Zenlytic Solution

With the help of Zöe, Neo-bank detected common traits among flagged accounts and found bad applicants in their system. In minutes (not weeks), they removed the users and tightened fraud protection.

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