Agentic Data Engineering on MotherDuck

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Discover the Delightful Data Stack
MotherDuck + Ascend.

Ascend deeply integrates with MotherDuck's most powerful capabilities so your team can automate smarter, develop faster, and make the most of your data investments.

Agentic Data Engineering for MotherDuck

Build and deploy faster with integrated AI agents that understand your MotherDuck environment. Context-aware agents use your metadata, your pipeline context, and your rules so you can deliver data faster.

Built-in observability and DataOps best practices

Gain unmatched visibility across your data lifecycle — from lineage to schema evolution to resource usage. Operate with confidence and speed with CI/CD integration, automated quality checks, and real-time alerting.

Maximize MotherDuck's performance

With Ascend's intelligent optimizations, your pipelines scale, and execute efficiently on MotherDuck's serverless infrastructure.

Faster ingest. Faster impact

Ascend continuously optimizes ingestion for speed, resource efficiency, and schema integrity, so you ingest more data, with less effort & cost.

Make the most of your data investments

Ascend layers seamlessly onto your existing stack to help your team build faster, automate more, and deliver trusted data products at scale.

Build Faster
Pipeline development, without the drag

Use code when you want it, clicks when you don’t. Ascend combines integrated AI agents and native GitOps for seamless team collaboration.

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Cut wasteful spend
Automate Workflows Easily

Ascend automates orchestration using rich metadata and event-driven triggers—so pipelines run only when needed, and custom logic is easy to build in.

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Deliver trusted data
Observe with Confidence

Monitor pipeline performance, trace lineage end-to-end, and debug faster with real-time, metadata-powered insights.

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Observe & Govern
Optimize with Precision

Run faster, spend less—Ascend uses metadata and fingerprinting to cut unnecessary compute without sacrificing performance.

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Pipeline development, without the drag

Ascend streamlines pipeline development with a unified platform to ingest, transform, and orchestrate data — eliminating tool sprawl and speeding up delivery. Teams report building pipelines up to 10x faster and reducing development effort by 75%.

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Effortlessly optimize pipelines

Ascend intelligently optimizes workloads. With Smart Tables that reprocess only changed data, customers reduce operational overhead by up to 90%.

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Trustworthy data, by design

With built-in schema validation, data integrity checks, and full lineage, your team can catch issues early and deliver data with confidence.

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Full visibility, no blind spots

Ascend gives your team real-time visibility into every pipeline run — with built-in monitoring, lineage, and historical change tracking. From spotting bottlenecks to resolving issues before they impact the business, teams get the insights they need to move fast and stay in control.

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Intelligence at the Core

Ascend's Intelligence Core combines metadata, automation, and AI in a layered architecture that empowers teams to build pipelines 7x faster and cut processing costs by 83%.

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Unified Metadata Collection

Ascend tracks data, code, and user actions in a unified metadata layer — powering automation, observability, and auditability through the entire data lifecycle.

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DataAware™ Automation Engine

Ascend’s automation engine uses rich metadata to orchestrate pipelines — managing dependencies, triggering tasks, and supporting custom event-driven workflows.

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Integrated AI Agents

Let AI do the tedious parts of data engineering — Ascend’s context-aware agents suggest code, explain logic, generate docs, and even automate steps on your behalf.

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Try it out. Your future self will thank you :)

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