IQVigilant Answers Agents is the natural-language and agentic AI engine inside IQVigilant. Six answering methods — from zero-LLM native parsing to hybrid agentic planners — give you safety, auditability, and the lowest AI token spend in production. Licensed as part of IQVigilant — see full licensing & pricing ↗.
Every time a user types a question in an IQVigilant-powered app, this engine decides how to answer it — picking the safest, cheapest, and most appropriate method from six available paths.
Native query & charts answers and human-vetted deterministic plans run without an LLM at execution time. Zero hallucinations, zero token cost.
Workflow agents and direct LLM answering give you full reasoning power when you need it — with confidence scoring and audit trails.
An LRM planner generates structured plans from natural language, then a deterministic executor runs them — best of both worlds.
Tools discovered from your existing apps and APIs are fully manageable — enable or disable them, and control access permissions by user role. Enterprise safety, built in.
Because one size doesn't fit all. A question like "show me all projects with their tasks" should be answered with zero-LLM native parsing — fast, deterministic, free. A question like "what's the strategic risk in our supply chain?" needs agentic reasoning. IQVigilant Answers Agents picks the right tool for every question, and lets you audit every decision.
Answers questions directly from your database — no LLM required. Delivers data tables, numeric summaries, and charts (bar, line, pie, scatter, histogram, waterfall, heatmap, radar, and more) by mapping natural language to your data model.
Predictable and repeatable. Enterprise-approved sequences of actions that run the same way every time. Plans can be inherited from agentic workflows — promote a successful agent run into a reviewed, hardcoded plan that executes with zero LLM cost at scale.
A reasoning LLM generates a structured plan from natural language asks, then the deterministic executor runs it. High-confidence plans are saved as candidates for promotion.
A full ReAct agent that leverages your existing agents, tools, and APIs. Give it access to your tool ecosystem — coded tools, NL-defined tools, and external APIs — for exploratory and power-user workflows.
Sends the question straight to the configured LLM backend. Best for open-ended questions, summaries, and creative interpretation — can return formatted text, tables, lists, and structured explanations. Full audit trail preserved.
Uses the PandasAI library to answer data-statistics and chart questions from previously-retrieved DataFrames. Ideal for follow-up analytical queries.
| Method | Family | Consumes LLM tokens | What the user sees |
|---|---|---|---|
| Native query & charts | Deterministic | None | Data tables, summaries, charts |
| Deterministic Plan | Deterministic | None | Agentic AI results, data, charts |
| Agentic + Deterministic | Hybrid | Low (planning only) | Agentic AI results, data, charts |
| Workflow Agent | Probabilistic | Full | Agentic AI results, text answers |
| Direct LLM | Probabilistic | Full | Text, tables, formatted answers |
| PandasAI | Probabilistic | Full | Text answers from data analysis |
Deterministic, agentic and hybrid modes, plus natural-language tool creation. The LLM acts as a safe translator into reviewed actions — no hallucinations, fewer tokens, lower cost of ownership.
Tools discovered from your existing apps and APIs become manageable — enable or disable them, and control access permissions by user role.
Ask questions in plain language and get tables, charts and dashboards built from your data's metadata — across your own database, read-only external databases, and documents like Word, spreadsheets, PDFs and CSVs.
Talk to us about licensing — start with a free 1-user license for personal use, or scale up at $99/month (8 users included, $10/user/month after). Or explore the full IQVigilant platform.