When Your SME Ghosts You: Using GenAI to Build a Database Documentation Agent

Have you ever been handed a mystery database and told, “You’ll figure it out”... with no documentation, no SME, and no time?

In this session, I’ll share how I turned a frustrating (and very relatable) real-world problem into a capstone project for Kaggle's Gen AI 5 Day Intensive Course with Google: building a GenAI-powered Database Documentation Agent using Python, SQLite, and the Gemini API — aka what I like to call my SME Ghost Protocol.

I’ll walk through how I used GenAI to automatically generate natural language summaries, answer ad-hoc schema questions, and create entity relationship diagrams — even when human help wasn't available.

We'll dive into the challenges of working with GenAI as a "coding partner," designing prompts like communication plans, and lessons learned the hard way about iteration, hallucination, and debugging when you're flying solo.

Expect live demos, practical takeaways, a little workplace sarcasm, and ideas for how you can launch your own SME Ghost Protocol — because sometimes, GenAI is the only teammate who shows up.👻