09/18/2026
A catalog only works if the metadata behind it is actually there.
Maiquel Sampaio de Melo from IDB Invest learned that the hard way while modernizing his organization's data stack. His team built a new lakehouse and rolled out new tools, but ran into the same old problem. Tribal knowledge was still trapped in people's heads instead of documented in the platform.
To fix it, he built a clear, repeatable standard for how the team writes data set descriptions. That's the unglamorous governance work that makes every AI initiative built on top of it trustworthy.
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