Snowflake Cortex is transforming the way data engineers and developers build AI-powered applications. This course, Getting Started with Snowflake Cortex, is designed to give you a solid, hands-on foundation in Snowflake’s built-in AI capabilities — without needing any external tools, vector databases, or complex infrastructure.
We begin with the Medallion Architecture, walking you through how to structure your Snowflake project using Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers — so your data is clean, organised, and ready for AI from day one. From there, you will build a Cortex Search Service that enables fast, semantic search over your data using natural language. You will then create Semantic Views to define business-friendly metrics and dimensions, and use Cortex Analyst to ask questions about your data in plain English and get SQL-powered answers instantly.
Next, you will set up a Snowflake MCP Server — one of the most exciting new features in the platform — exposing your Cortex tools directly to any LLM client, including Claude. Finally, you will explore how to build Agents that reason over your data and orchestrate multiple Cortex tools to answer complex business questions autonomously.
