Your database keeps the values. What they mean lives in people, code, dashboards and slides, and every team keeps its own copy. Only one of those copies is enforced.
It starts with the data you already have, in a database, an ontology, or a spreadsheet. Runs where your data runs, or hosted by us.
A column named status is not documentation. The schema
is enforced but explains nothing. The other four explain everything
and enforce nothing.
Write it down once, where it is enforced, and three kinds of recurring work go away.
Reconciling numbers that were supposed to be the same is recurring work. It exists because every report, pipeline and agent carries its own definition of the field. Igloo gives them one definition to read. Change it once and everything downstream follows.
Valid data can still be wrong. The checks come from the definition, so they test what a field means and not only its type, and your database enforces the same rule.
Your analysts know the two revenue figures differ. Your agent doesn't, unless the difference is written down where the agent reads. Igloo's agents read the same definition the database enforces.
A broken job is visible. A job that finishes and produces plausible wrong numbers is found after the decision.
Programmers settled this decades ago: the cheapest error is the one the compiler catches. A model that runs is a compiler for your data. A value that breaks a definition is refused where it is written, not discovered in the board pack.
Every check reports what it actually judged. A check that saw no data cannot count as a pass. And when a model is translated into another format, or out of one, Igloo says exactly what did not survive the trip.
Structure alone gets you types, keys and required fields. The value starts when you add meaning: a unit, a valid range, what a relationship actually means. Each one you write down sharpens every check, every constraint, every generated test row and every answer an agent gives, from the same sentence. Igloo will also make a wrong definition consistently wrong everywhere. The definition is yours.
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