Sherloq is an AI SQL assistant that runs as a plugin in the editor rather than as another web app. It generates, fixes and modifies queries in context, and adds query management with version control, team sharing and permissions on top. A Chrome extension and an IntelliJ plugin cover the common places SQL gets written, and free standalone tools include a syntax validator, a formatter and a visual ERD builder.
Requiring no data integration is the security argument and it is a strong one. Every competing assistant asks for a warehouse connection, which means a procurement review, a security questionnaire and a credential in someone else’s system before an analyst can try it. Working from editor context alone means it installs in under two minutes and never touches the data – and version control on queries fixes the real problem anyway, which is that good SQL ends up scattered across Slack, notebooks and local files.
Sherloq is Y Combinator-backed and SOC 2 certified, with a free tier on plugin download and enterprise plans adding SSO and on-premise, none of them priced publicly. Note the site’s certificate covers the apex domain only, so the www address fails validation. Without a data connection the assistant cannot see your schema unless you show it, which limits how specific its suggestions get, and query version control only helps if the team actually saves queries into it.
