Scattered definitions
One definition
When revenue means something different to everyone, nothing adds up.
Finance says gross revenue. Sales says net. The board hears both and trusts neither. Keboola’s governed business glossary defines every financial term once — and enforces it everywhere. When an AI agent queries EBITDA, it executes your definition — not a generic interpretation. You do not need to agree internally before you start.
Trusted by 1,000+ companies
The Problem
Every team hits the same definition problem.
Same metric, three definitions.
EBITDA means one thing in your SAP, another in the FP&A model, and a third in the board deck. Every reconciliation meeting starts by agreeing on which version is correct.
New hires inherit broken logic.
Definitions live in someone’s head or a forgotten Confluence page. Every new analyst reverse-engineers the metric from the report output and gets it slightly wrong.
AI gives confident wrong answers.
When AI tools query undefined metrics, they interpolate. ChatGPT on your data guesses at definitions. Two analysts ask the same question and get different numbers — both technically justified, neither trustworthy.
Auditors cannot follow the logic.
A metric that cannot be defined unambiguously cannot be audited reliably. The auditor asks for the definition. The answer is a spreadsheet and a long explanation.
Business Glossary
Defined once. Enforced everywhere.
When an AI agent queries EBITDA, it executes your definition — not a generic interpretation.
0
Definition per metric — enforced across all systems
0%
AI-query consistency — when built on governed glossary
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Reconciliation meetings about what a term means
How it works
Surface
Connect to your data catalog, ERP metadata, and FP&A models. Keboola surfaces every metric, KPI, and account grouping in active use across your systems — including ones nobody knew existed.
Define
Finance and data teams define each metric in plain language — formula, source, owner, approved use. Definitions are versioned and change-logged from day one.
Enforce
Glossary terms link to the underlying data model. Every dashboard, report, and AI query — Claude, Copilot, Gemini — resolves against the same governed definition via the Keboola semantic layer. Not a cached export. Not an interpretation.
Monitor
AI agents flag when a metric in a new report diverges from its governed definition. Caught in review, not in the board meeting.
Companies that fixed it
Real customers, real impact.
Every executive had their own point person for a number.
75% of decisions from one governed data layer. The glossary resolved metric disagreements that had persisted across 20+ source systems — including definitions that sales, ops, and finance had each defined differently.
Unified financial definitions across 9 regulatory environments.
FP&A team moved from data validation to analysis. The governed glossary is what made AI-assisted reporting viable.
Why Keboola
Most BI tools let you define metrics inside dashboards. That definition lives in the dashboard, not in the data.
When someone builds a second dashboard, they redefine it. Keboola governs the definition at the data layer — so every tool that reads from it, including every AI agent connected via MCP, gets the same governed answer.
Questions & answers
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything finance, IT, and procurement will want to know — up front.
Resources for CFOs
Insights & conversations
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Whitepapers, ebooks, implementation playbooks — and conversations with finance leaders operating in multi-entity, PE-backed, and post-acquisition environments.
