LinkedIn·Monday, 24 August 2026·2d ago

You can do governance work in an afternoon that used to take months. Here are 3 things AI does for data quality that manual processes can't…

Maarten Masschelein

CEO & Co-Founder @ Soda | Data and Context Management for AI

You can do governance work in an afternoon that used to take months. Here are 3 things AI does for data quality that manual processes can't match: 𝟭. 𝗖𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 Most pipelines have near-zero test coverage. AI generates contracts in bulk across all your sources at once, so a lean team goes from nothing to a real baseline in hours. 𝟮. 𝗔𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝘀 Manual threshold alerts are brittle. AI learns historical patterns, builds a baseline of what "normal" looks like, and flags the anomalies humans miss. At Soda, that means 70% fewer false positives than tools like Facebook Prophet. 𝟯. 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗿𝗮𝘄𝗹 Coverage without cost-awareness gets expensive fast. AI optimizes each contract as the most efficient SQL it can produce. Soda scans 1B rows in 64 seconds -- coverage scales without runaway compute cost. The result is that teams spend time analyzing instead of debugging. They cover more data and keep that coverage. AI doesn't replace the engineer or the steward. It removes the repetitive work that never needed human judgment. Which of these three would make the biggest difference for your team right now? Check out how Soda AI can help: https://lnkd.in/e3zW57ji