Jun 30, 2026: Analytical search (Public Preview)¶

Analytical search, an orchestration capability in Cortex Agents that enables analytical queries over large document collections, is now in Public Preview.

Traditional RAG approaches retrieve a small number of passages, which limits their ability to answer questions requiring comprehensive analysis — such as counts, aggregates, or trends across thousands of documents. Analytical search addresses this by orchestrating multi-index Cortex Search queries with configurable result limits, metadata-based filtering, and AISQL (AI_FILTER, AI_AGG) to analyze the full result set precisely.

Example queries analytical search enables:

• “List all patients who were prescribed albuterol for asthma last year.”
• “What percentage of sales calls mentioned product X in EMEA vs. the US?”
• “What new themes emerged in 2025 compared to 2024?”

For more information, see Analytical search.