Step 02 · Foundation
Land, validate and model the data into governed tiers
Ingestion, contracts, orchestration and the medallion warehouse. The unglamorous part that decides whether anything later is believable.
Mini process diagram
Land
Validate
Model
Test
Certify
From raw file to certified business table.
01
Contracted ingestion
Sources land under declared expectations with fail-fast gates.
02
Medallion modelling
Bronze history, Silver conformed entities, Gold certified metrics.
03
Lineage everywhere
Every column traceable from dashboard back to source file.
4 weeks
First governed data product
600+
Tests per build
End to end
Lineage coverage
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