Data lineage you can defend, part 1: AI proposes, people decide

Ask a bank's risk function where a figure in its regulatory return came from, and the honest answer is often "give us a few weeks."

By Faris Haddad · Published Oct 2026 on Builder Center

Why it matters

The knowledge is scattered across ETL tools, half-populated catalogs, stored procedures, mainframe batch and the memory of whoever built the pipeline, and AI agents make that gap more expensive. No single tool solves it; this sets out a design where AI proposes lineage, and evidence and people decide.

What you'll get

Why lineage is still manual, and the design principle that makes AI-generated lineage stand up to an auditor.

Who should read it

Data platform & governance leads, CDOs, risk and compliance teams, data engineers

This page is a short guide. The full article is published on Builder Center.