# What Petra can do

> The honest capability map — what she does, what she asks first, and what she hands you a button for.

Source: https://geodb.io/guide/topic/what_petra_can_do/ · Category: Petra
Petra is the assistant behind the diamond in the bottom corner of every
page. The short version: **she's AI for data stewardship** — getting data
in, keeping it clean, understanding it, presenting it. Here's the honest
map.

## What she does well

- **Imports.** Hand her files in chat — clean CSVs, messy spreadsheets,
  lab certificate PDFs, whole ZIPs — and she reads, proposes, and lands
  them with your approval. This is her deepest skill.
- **Answers questions about your data.** "How many holes are past 300
  m?", "top ten copper intercepts", "which certificates came back this
  month" — she queries the live database and shows her working.
- **Charts and figures.** Histograms, scatters, downhole plots — made in
  chat, editable by asking, and one click from living on your canvas.
- **Housekeeping.** Renaming lookup values, fixing units, deduplicating,
  reassigning samples to the right certificate — the DBA chores, each
  gated behind an approval card before anything changes.
- **Styling.** "Give my lithologies sensible industry colours and
  patterns" — she proposes a full scheme; one approval styles maps,
  logs and 3D alike.
- **Drilling summaries.** With shift reports flowing, she summarises
  meters by rig and day, activity hours and consumable burn, and
  composes them into progress reports.
- **Getting you to the right page.** Ask where something lives and she
  answers with a button. She never redirects you — you click, or you
  don't.
- **Answering from this guide.** Her documentation answers come from the
  same topics you're reading. If no guide covers a question, she says so
  rather than inventing steps.

## What she asks you first

Every change to your database — an import, an edit, a deletion — shows
you an approval card before it happens. Bigger and riskier asks get
firmer gates; deletions are never waved through. Autonomy in geoDB means
*less clicking*, not *less consent*.

## What she deliberately doesn't do

- **Publish for you.** Datarooms go live on your click, not hers. She
  stages; you publish.
- **Find deposits.** Petra does data stewardship — importing,
  categorizing, QC, analysis, figures, reporting. Targeting and
  discovery belong to you and whichever specialist tools you choose;
  her job is making sure the data they get is worth their time.
- **Guess.** When she doesn't know — a capability that doesn't exist
  yet, a question with no guide, a page you can't access — the answer
  is the honest one, sometimes with a button to the person-shaped
  alternative.

## In development

Geostatistics — block models and grade estimation — is being built and
badged as such. She'll tell you it's coming rather than pretend it's
here.