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Tour of the app

Kenseme has one sidebar on the left and one header across the top. The sidebar takes you to each area of the product. The header tells you where you are, which organization you are working in, and who you are signed in as. This page walks through both, then points you to the overview page for every area.

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The Home page with callouts on the sidebar groups, the breadcrumb, the organization name, the account menu and the light/dark toggle.

The sidebar

The Kenseme logo sits at the top of the sidebar. Click it to go back to Home from anywhere.

Below the logo, the sidebar is grouped the way data work is usually layered: business meaning first, then governance, then the data context and the physical data model, then the agents that use all of it.

Sidebar item What you do there Start with
Home See everything in your organization at a glance and create new things. Your home dashboard
Business Context › Glossaries Define business terms, their definitions and their stewards. Business glossaries overview
Business Context › Processes Upload process documents so AI features can draw on how your business works. Process documents overview
Business Context › Standards Browse and apply industry standards. Industry standards overview
Governance › Attributes Define custom attributes and set their values on schemas, ontologies and glossary terms. Custom attributes overview
Data Context › Ontologies Model your business as classes and relationships, bind them to real tables, and generate ontologies with an agent. Ontologies overview
Data Model › Schemas Design, import, version and generate SQL for database schemas. Schemas overview
Data Model › Pipelines Map one schema to another and generate the code that moves the data. Pipelines overview
Agents › Data Agent Ask questions in plain language and get answers from the data bound to your ontologies. Data Agent overview
Settings › Billing & Plan See your plan, AI usage and seats, and change them. Manage your plan and billing
Settings › Organization Settings Manage users, labels, database connections, feature settings and background jobs. What an organization is
Settings › System Administration Manage every organization on the platform. System administration

What you see under Settings depends on your role:

  • Billing & Plan and Organization Settings appear only for organization admins.
  • System Administration appears only for site administrators, the Macula Systems staff who run the platform.

Some areas also depend on your plan. For example, Industry Standards is part of the Enterprise plan, and the Data Agent is part of the Business plan and the trial. See Plans and pricing.

Collapse the sidebar

Click the chevron button beside the logo (Collapse navigation) to shrink the sidebar to icons only. Click it again (Expand navigation) to bring the labels back. The sidebar opens expanded each time you load the app.

The header

From left to right, the header shows:

  • Breadcrumb. Where you are, for example Home / Activity. Each earlier segment is a link back up the trail.
  • Organization name. The organization you are working in. If you belong to more than one organization, the name is clickable: it opens the Organizations page, where you pick another one. See Switch between organizations.
  • Read-only or Suspended badge. Appears beside the organization name when the organization is restricted. See Account states and read-only mode.
  • Account menu. Your email address. Open it for Account, where you edit your profile and time zone, and Logout. Site administrators see a small shield icon here.
  • Light/dark toggle. Switches the whole app between the light and dark theme.
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Close-up of the header: breadcrumb, organization name with the edit icon, the account menu open on Account and Logout, and the theme toggle.

Light and dark theme

Click the toggle at the right end of the header to switch between light and dark. Kenseme remembers your choice in this browser, so the app opens in the same theme next time. Another browser or computer keeps its own setting.

Banners across the top

A few conditions show a banner above every page until they are resolved:

  • Read-only or suspended. The organization can’t be changed right now. Organization admins see an Update your plan button.
  • Awaiting payment. The organization was created with a paid plan but checkout wasn’t finished. Organization admins see Complete payment.
  • Subscription ending. The plan was cancelled and ends on a set date. Organization admins see Resume subscription.

Each is explained in Account states and read-only mode.

Background jobs

Long-running work runs in the background so you can keep working. That includes schema imports, AI description generation, ontology generation and SQL object analysis.

  • Home shows an In progress card while one of your jobs is running, and for an hour after it finishes.
  • Organization Settings › Background Jobs lists every job for your organization. Organization admins only.

Closing the browser does not stop a background job. Come back later and it will have carried on.

Notifications

Short messages appear in a corner of the screen after most actions to confirm a save or explain an error. They disappear on their own after a few seconds.