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The Strata interface

A tour of the Strata web app so you know where every feature lives.

Layout at a glance

Strata is a single-page app with a fixed sidebar on the left and a main content area on the right. The browser URL changes as you move between pages, so every screen is bookmarkable and refresh-safe.

  • Sidebar (left): navigation via three mini-tabs (Inbox, Chats, Agents), a search button, pages (Workspace, Data, Admin), and your account menu at the bottom.
  • Main area (right): the page itself — chat, a database page, settings, admin, and so on.

When the browser window is narrower than about 1100 pixels, the sidebar auto-collapses to an icon-only rail; you can re-expand it with the toggle button in the sidebar header.

The sidebar

The sidebar has three main sections: a mini-nav of tabs at the top (Inbox, Chats, Agents), a main body showing the active tab's content, a Cmd+K search button, pinning and resizing controls, and an account menu at the bottom. For a detailed breakdown of sidebar structure and behavior, see The sidebar.

Inbox

The Inbox tab shows unread messages — welcome messages for new users, agent run notifications, system alerts, and organization announcements. Once you read a message, it disappears from the sidebar; the full message archive lives at /inbox/all. See Inbox for details.

Chats

The Chats tab shows your recent conversations in two sections — Pinned and Recents. Click any row to reopen that conversation. You can pin chats by opening the three-dot menu on the row. A New chat button at the top starts a fresh conversation.

Agents

The Agents tab lists your scheduled agents. Click an agent to view or edit its settings and recent runs.

Pages section

Below the tabs, the sidebar lists navigation pages grouped into sections:

  • Workspace: Chat and Agents
  • Data (when a SQL Server connection is active): Dashboard, Tables, Procedures, Explorer, Schema map
  • Admin (each item appears only if your role grants the matching permission): Users, Roles, Announcements, Knowledge Base, Usage, Billing, Active sessions, API keys, Organization. Knowledge Base shows only when your organization has its Microsoft connection enabled. Other admin areas — Invitations, SQL Server org connections, and the Audit log (Organization settings → Audit) — are reachable by URL or from within the pages above.

Account menu

The bottom of the sidebar shows your avatar, name, and role. Click the row to open the account menu:

  • Settings — opens your personal settings.
  • Learn More — a submenu linking to Documentation, Usage policy, and Privacy policy (each opens in a new tab).
  • Support — opens the in-app support widget.
  • Log out — signs you out after a confirmation dialog.

The chat page

The chat workspace is the primary surface in Strata.

Top bar

When you have an active conversation:

  • Conversation title (top-left) — click it to open a small menu with Rename and Pin chat / Unpin chat.

To search, pin, or switch between conversations, use the Chats tab in the sidebar or the Cmd+K search.

The composer

The chat composer sits at the bottom of the page.

  • Text input — the main typing area. Press Enter to send, Shift+Enter for a new line. Type / to open the skills picker.
  • Plus button (+) — opens a menu with extra options, including web search, file upload, and other capabilities.
  • Microphone — start a voice dictation that converts your spoken words into chat text.
  • Model picker — shows the active model and provider logo. Click to switch between the AI models your organization has enabled. The choices come from Strata's central, Kronisys-curated Model Catalog (across providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and more) — your organization enables a subset, and an admin can narrow that set further per role or per user. See Models.
  • Voice button — switches to voice mode for hands-free conversations with spoken responses.
  • Send / Stop — the up-arrow icon sends the message; while a response is streaming it becomes a square stop icon that aborts generation.

On a brand-new chat (before you send anything), an Incognito toggle appears at the top-right of the empty chat screen. Turning it on starts an incognito conversation that is not saved to your history.

A small disclaimer below the composer reads: AI responses may not always be accurate. Verify critical information.

The conversation area

Above the composer:

  • Action-step trail — short status lines while the AI is working (for example, Querying data..., Building dashboard...). Click a finished step to expand its details. Once a response completes, the trail collapses into a single summary row.
  • Messages — your messages on the right, the AI's on the left. The AI's responses can contain Markdown, syntax-highlighted code, rich blocks, and callouts.
  • Suggestion cards — a data-aware response can carry three follow-up suggestions. They do not render in the response itself; they surface in a panel that expands above the composer when you focus the prompt input while it is empty. Click one to send it as your next message.

The artifact panel

For SQL workspaces and dashboards, an artifact panel slides in from the right.

  • SQL workspace — opens when you ask the AI to write or modify a SQL query. The latest query is editable, syntax-highlighted, and re-runnable from inside the panel.
  • Dashboard viewer — opens when the AI builds an interactive dashboard (the AI calls the update_dashboard tool when you ask for a "dashboard" or "page").

The panel survives chat re-renders so its scroll position, iframe state, and inputs do not flinch when new messages stream in.

The offline overlay

If Strata loses connectivity to its backend, a soft full-page overlay fades in reading Reconnecting… with the line "Your connection to Strata was interrupted. We'll restore the page automatically." A health check runs every 20 seconds while the tab is visible. The overlay only appears after a short grace period so it doesn't flash on momentary blips, and the page underneath is kept intact — when the connection comes back, the overlay slides off and you resume exactly where you were.

Other pages

  • Settings — your personal settings. Side-nav sub-sections are General (profile, appearance, timezone, custom instructions), Capabilities (memory), Usage (your consumption against your quota), Extensions (connect SQL Server, OneDrive, Outlook, and Atlassian — one connection for Jira and Confluence — plus the Skills Library), and Privacy (data saving, feedback, data export, active sessions). See Personal settings.
  • Usage analytics live under Admin → Usage, which is the only analytics page. The old personal Overview dashboard at /analytics/ai was removed; that route now opens Chat.
  • Database Analytics — usage and activity for your connected database.
  • Agents — list, schedule, monitor, and create scheduled agents.
  • Admin pages — if you are an admin, deep configuration of users, roles, organization settings, sessions, invitations, audit, and usage. Org admins also manage the Model Catalog from Organization settings — enabling or disabling AI models for the whole organization and reviewing each model's capabilities, context window, pricing, and benchmarks.

Every page is reached either from the sidebar or by typing its URL directly. Visiting an admin URL without admin permission redirects you to the chat page; visiting a database URL with no database connected also redirects to chat.

Keyboard shortcuts

See Keyboard shortcuts for the full list. The high-frequency ones in chat are Enter to send, Shift+Enter for newline, Escape to close pop-ups and modals, and / to open the skills picker inside the composer.

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