# Product Tour: See Silicon in Two Minutes | Silicon

URL: https://meetsilicon.com/tour/

> A two-minute interactive tour of Silicon: ask in plain English, check the answer, publish a report to Slack and catch a breaking schema change.

Product tour
# See Silicon on a real data stack
Five steps, about two minutes, using a sample accounts-payable dataset. No sign-up needed.
1. Ask
2. Verify
3. Publish
4. Schedule
5. Protect
Step 1 of 5
## Ask a question in plain English
A finance lead asks why time to payment improved last quarter. Silicon answers in seconds from the governed accounts-payable metrics.
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Illustrative example
Why did time to payment improve last quarter?
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From fct_invoices and dim_vendors (AP semantic model):
Average time to payment fell from 3.9 to 1.8 days in Q3
Auto-coding accuracy rose to 91%, cutting manual review
62% of the gain came from the top 20 vendors
Invoice volume grew 14.2% over the same period
- Ask a question in plain English A finance lead asks why time to payment improved last quarter. Silicon answers in seconds from the governed accounts-payable metrics.
- Open the reasoning Every answer shows the metric definition, the tables and the filters it used, so anyone can check where the number came from.
- Save it to a dashboard The answer becomes a chart on the accounts-payable dashboard, built on the same governed metrics as everything else.
- Deliver it every Monday Schedule the dashboard to Slack or email. It arrives fresh from live data, with no one exporting screenshots.
- Catch the change that would break it A teammate opens a pull request renaming vendor_id. Silicon flags the dashboard and the scheduled report, and drafts the fix.