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I am a data steward. How can I add AI into my workflow? Data stewards hold the business rules, but turning them into running checks…
Maarten Masschelein
CEO & Co-Founder @ Soda | Data and Context Management for AI
I am a data steward. How can I add AI into my workflow?
Data stewards hold the business rules, but turning them into running checks requires an engineer. Your rule waits in a backlog behind feature work. Governance moves at the speed of someone else's sprint.
AI removes that dependency.
You can now use AI to: turn a plain-English quality rule into a running check; draft data contracts without writing YAML or code; suggest thresholds based on the actual data; update existing checks when business rules change; surface anomalies worth your review.
Notice what is not on that list: deciding what good data means. That stays with you.
You define the rules. AI handles the implementation. You review and approve before anything runs against production.
The steward role does not shrink in this arrangement. It sheds the waiting.
Stewards: what rule have you been waiting on engineering to implement?
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