It correctly handled a conversational, multi-part customer question without requiring SQL, producing two rankings plus follow-up answers.
What was measured
Plain English Query Handling
Can the tool understand business questions without SQL?
decisive for this rankingtransformation
This is the core of the ranking: the tool must understand a business question without the user writing SQL. (3 of 3 judges)
What was given, what came back
Test input: Best customers with unpaid-order and payment-method follow-ups · text · group: live-database-plain-english-queries
Input — what we sent
The exact prompt
Who are my best customers — the ones who order the most and spend the most? Follow-up 1: For the top 3 from that list — do any of them have unpaid orders? Follow-up 2: What payment methods do these top 3 usually use?
A conversational multi-table customer analysis with follow-up questions. It asks for the best customers by both order volume and spend, then drills into unpaid orders for the top 3 and their usual payment methods. Designed to test ranking logic, join-heavy analysis, and follow-up context retention.
Why this input is hard
- · ambiguous business term interpretation
- · multi-table joins
- · aggregation and ranking
- · follow-up context retention
- · scoping to a selected subset
- · payment behavior analysis
Output — unretouched
Also checked on this input — same tool, 5 other criteria
Ambiguity Handling⚠ StruggledIt did not ask what 'top 3 from that list' meant; instead it silently chose the spend ranking first and then added the order-count check.Business Insight✓ WorkedIt explains what the numbers mean by naming Rahul Sharma as the best overall customer, Mohan Vishe as the most frequent, and Deepak Kulkarni as the biggest spender.Follow-Up Context◐ MixedIt remembered enough of the prior answer to check both ranking lists, but it still narrowed the follow-up instead of preserving the user's intended scope cleanly.Result Readability✓ WorkedThe output stays readable for non-technical users, using compact tables and short summaries with explicit customer names and amounts.SQL Generation✓ WorkedIt successfully generated the ranking queries and follow-up lookups, including the top spenders, top order-count customers, unpaid-order status, and usual payment methods.
Provenance
- Observation
- 2bd93ade-7def-4250-ad0a-dd4f54aafd4a
- Evidence run
- af2abc96-3311-484b-a19d-854a2fdd2bf3
- Study
- Query Live Databases Using Plain English with AI
- Research task
- 86b9y6c99
- Tested at
- not recorded
- Source
- first-party
- Evidence state
- verified
- Proof shown
- input + output shown
- Cost / latency
- not captured
- Repeat run
- not captured
- Tester
- not captured
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Query this
get_evidence({
tool: "basedash",
scenario: "live-database-plain-english-queries"
})MCP · mcp.aidemos.com/api/mcp
Free with attribution.
Same input, same check — 5 other tools
measured on Plain English Query Handling
AskYourDatabase✓ WorkedIt can interpret informal ranking language like 'the ones who order the most and spend the most' and launch the analysis directly.Definite◐ MixedIt accepted the natural-language request but only ranked customers by total spend, so it did not fully understand the combined 'order the most and spend the most' intent.Draxlr✓ WorkedIt accepted the informal best-customers request and both follow-up questions across the three-turn conversation.FutureSmart NL2SQL Agent✓ WorkedAccepts the best-customers question in plain English and returns a ranked answer without requiring SQL from the user.Querio✓ WorkedHandles an informal conversational request and splits 'order the most' and 'spend the most' into two separate ranking dimensions instead of guessing.
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