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): one column: Search, New chat, Inbox, Agents, Customize, Data (while a database is connected), Organization (for admins) and More at the top, your chats, 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.

Strata supports light, dark, and system (follow your OS) themes. New visitors follow the operating system setting until you pick one explicitly under Settings → General.

The sidebar

The sidebar is one column. For a detailed breakdown of its structure and behavior, see The sidebar.

The places

At the top, under your organization's name:

Search opens the search palette, which searches your chats (Cmd+K, Windows: Ctrl+K).
New chat starts a fresh conversation (Shift+Cmd+O, Windows: Ctrl+Shift+O).
Inbox opens your messages: welcome messages for new users, agent run notifications, system alerts and organization announcements. While you have unread messages, it shows how many. See Inbox.
Agents opens the Agents page, where your agents are listed and created.
Customize opens your skills, extensions and connectors.
Data (while a database is connected) opens the database pages, described below.
Organization (for admins) opens the admin pages, described below.
More lists the places you have hidden and opens Edit sidebar…, where you choose which places your sidebar shows. Search and New chat are always shown. See Edit sidebar.

Your chats

Below the pages, your chats: Pinned first, then your recent chats grouped by day (Today, Yesterday, Previous 7 days, Previous 30 days, Older). Click any row to reopen that conversation, and pin one from the three-dot menu on its row. Show all chats opens the full list.

Data, and Organization

Data opens the database pages, when a SQL Server connection is active and SQL Server is allowed for you: Tables, Procedures, Explorer and Schema map, as tabs under one heading, Data. Each tab is a page of its own at its own address (/database/tables and so on).

The admin pages are not listed in the sidebar. Organization, one of the places at the top, opens them, and every admin page draws their navigation down its left side in seven groups: Organization (Profile, Member defaults, Announcements), People (Users, Groups, Roles, Provisioning, Active sessions), Intelligence (Models, AI engine, Agents, Knowledge base), Connections (Extensions, Connectors, Database connections, API keys), Usage and billing (Usage, Billing), Data and oversight (Data and privacy, Audit log) and Help (Support). Each place appears only if your role grants the matching permission; Knowledge base shows only when OneDrive is allowed for you. See Admin console overview.

If Strata can't read in full the extensions you're allowed (for example, it misses the roles your groups give you), neither Data nor Knowledge Base is hidden for that reason: Data shows whenever a SQL Server connection is active, and Knowledge Base whenever your permissions allow it. Strata still checks the extension when you open the page.

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.
Usage — opens Settings on your usage.
Language — opens Choose your language.
Get help — opens the in-app support widget.
Learn more — a submenu linking to Documentation, Terms of service, Usage policy, and Privacy policy (each opens in a new tab).
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 your chats 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. When your organization sets web search for everyone, the Web search row shows a padlock and Set by your organization; its tick shows your organization's choice and can't be changed.
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 you may use. 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. The same dropdown holds a reasoning-effort selector (Low through Max) and a Thinking toggle for extended reasoning. 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. Under a message you sent, icon buttons copy it and edit it; under an answer, they copy it, read it aloud, regenerate it and rate it. Hover one for its name. Select words in an answer to reply to them.
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 connection notice

If Strata loses contact with its servers, one orange notice says so. It never covers the page or disables anything, so you can keep reading and typing. On Chat it sits directly above the prompt box, attached to it the way the @agent banner is (when an @agent or model-switch banner is showing, the notice sits just above that banner). Everywhere else — Tables, Agents, Admin, the sign-in screen, and whenever Settings is open — it floats at the bottom centre of the screen. Only one notice shows at a time, and it has no close button: it goes away on its own.

Message	What it means
You're offline. Check your connection.	Your browser reports that it has no network. This one shows straight away.
Can't reach Strata. Trying again.	Your network is up, but Strata didn't answer — no reply within 6 seconds, or an error, as can happen briefly during an update. It shows only if Strata is still unreachable 4 seconds after the failed check, so momentary blips never show it. Retry now checks again immediately.
Reconnecting.	Strata is checking the connection — after your network comes back, or after you press Retry now. It gives way to the result: the notice clears if Strata answers, or goes back to one of the messages above if it doesn't.
Slow connection. Replies may take longer than usual.	Your browser reports a very slow (2G-class) connection. Only Chromium-based browsers report this, and it clears at the next successful check.

Strata checks its connection every 20 seconds while the tab is visible. Once a notice is up it also re-checks after 2, 4, 8 and 15 seconds, then every 30 seconds, and the notice clears the moment a check succeeds — there is no "reconnected" message. A tab in the background doesn't check at all; coming back to it checks straight away.

Links

In answers. A link in an AI answer looks like a link in your own message: the same text colour, underlined. A web address the AI writes out in full, starting with http:// or https://, is clickable too, including one set on its own in code formatting. Addresses without that prefix (such as www.example.com) and anything inside a code block stay plain text. In an answer that used web search, a link to one of its sources stays blue and shows a preview of the source when you point at it.
In the prompt box. A web address you type is underlined as you type, the same as after you send it.
In your sent message. A web address you paste shows its site's small icon before it. Strata's own server fetches the icon from the site, so the site never learns who pasted its link and no other service is asked. A site with no icon Strata can read, an address inside your company's network, or an address written as a number (such as 10.0.0.5) shows no icon. Icons follow your organization's rule for web pages (Organization > Data and privacy > Web pages and search results): with no web pages allowed, no icon is fetched, and with approved domains only, only those sites show theirs.
Leaving Strata. Clicking a link that leads off Strata opens a You're leaving Strata dialog showing the full address, with the site's name in bold. Open link opens it in a new tab, so your Strata tab stays where it is; Cancel or Esc closes the dialog. This covers links anywhere in the app, including links to Strata's own public site and docs; only links within the app itself skip it. Cmd-, Ctrl-, Shift- or Alt-clicking a link skips the dialog and leaves the link to your browser.
Email and phone links. A mailto: or tel: link shows the same dialog with just the address or number; Continue opens your mail or phone app.

Other pages

Settings — your personal settings, opened from the account menu. Side-nav sections are General (profile, custom instructions, timezone, and appearance — light, dark, or system theme), Account, Privacy (data saving, feedback, data export, active sessions), Capabilities, Memory, Usage (your consumption against your limits), and Recap, plus Apps under a Customize heading (Strata for Outlook, and the Directory where you connect SQL Server, OneDrive, Outlook, and Atlassian — one connection for Jira and Confluence — browse skills, and see your organization's connectors). See Personal settings.
Usage analytics live under Organization → Usage, which is the only analytics page. The old personal Overview dashboard at /analytics/ai and the Database Analytics page at /analytics/database were both removed; those routes now open Chat.
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 the permission it needs redirects you to the chat page, except the address of one of the Organization page's settings (Profile, Member defaults and the rest), which stays put and says Admin access required; visiting a database URL with no database connected also redirects to chat.

Tooltips

Hover an icon button for a moment and a short label says what it does; moving along a row of buttons shows each label straight away. A button reached with the keyboard shows its label as soon as it has focus, and a label that has a shortcut shows the keys for your platform (for example ⌘K on a Mac and Ctrl+K on Windows). Escape closes a label without closing the dialog under it. Labels are drawn above every panel, so none is cut off at the edge of the sidebar, the chat or the side panel. Most labels open below their control, and above it instead when below would cover another button and above would not. On a phone a tap acts instead, and tapping a switch or button that is unavailable shows why until your next tap, which still reaches whatever you tapped. In the collapsed sidebar every item has its label, and your avatar shows your name. Every label in Strata works this way, on every page: a name cut off by an ellipsis (a file chip, a long group or chat name) shows in full in the same label, and no browser tooltip appears a second later beside it.

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.

The sidebar — detailed sidebar structure and navigation
Models — the Model Catalog and how the model picker works
Inbox — understanding messages and notifications
Keyboard shortcuts