Data Governance · quality, stewardship, lineage
Rules, policies, ownership and approvals apply equally to people, integrations and autonomous agents. Every exception has an owner, every value has lineage, and every decision leaves evidence.
Select a violation, trace where it entered, then decide. Your decision is written to the audit trail.
Record
Ball valve, 2 in, 316 SS, 1000 WOG · SKU 44-BV2-316
Found
1000 WOG psi
Rule expects
1000 psi WOG (unit: psi, basis: WOG)
Agent proposal
Split value into rating 1000, unit psi, basis WOG
Evidence: Supplier submission SUB-2291, row 118
Lineage
Approval boundary
Normalization of a regulated technical attribute. Policy requires steward approval before the corrected value is applied.
You are acting as: Valves category steward
Audit evidence
Data quality and completeness
Validation, completeness, consistency and timeliness are measured per domain, family and channel. Readiness for a destination is a rule set, not a guess.
Scores are computed from the rules each domain owner activates, so a score always explains itself: every missing point traces to a named rule and record.
Policies and approval workflows
Policy is the boundary between autonomous execution and human authority. It is configured by attribute class, not decided by the agent at runtime.
| Policy | Scope | Agent may | Approver |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regulated attributes | Pressure, voltage, hazard class, certifications | Propose only | Named compliance owner |
| Technical attributes | Dimensions, materials, ratings | Apply above confidence threshold, cite source | Category steward samples |
| Descriptive content | Titles, bullets, descriptions | Draft; publish per channel policy | Content owner |
| Structural changes | Taxonomy, families, reference lists | Not permitted | Data governance council |
Every domain, family and rule has an accountable owner. Exceptions route to them with context, priority and age.
Exceptions are records with state: open, proposed, returned, resolved. Blocking exceptions hold channel publication until cleared.
Before and after values, the actor (person, integration or agent), the rule and the approval are retained together.
How it works
Owners activate validation, completeness and compliance rules and assign severity per channel.
Rules run as data arrives and on schedule. Failures become exceptions with lineage attached.
Agents attach evidence-backed proposals. Policy decides whether a person must approve.
Stewards approve, return or reject. Rules re-run and the decision is written to the audit trail.
Autonomy and its boundaries
Autonomy makes governance practical at catalog scale: rules are evaluated continuously and most exceptions arrive with a proposed fix. It never makes the decision that policy assigns to a person.
Industrial examples
SituationHundreds of PPE items reference certificates that expire on different dates across suppliers.
How Autonera handles itAn expiry rule opens exceptions ahead of time, agents link newly received certificates as proposals, and only the compliance owner can approve before marketplace publication resumes.
SituationPressure ratings arrive in mixed formats from regional engineering teams.
How Autonera handles itValidity rules against a governed reference list block non-conforming values; lineage shows which mapping introduced them so the source is fixed, not just the record.
SituationAn acquired branch's catalog lacks weights, breaking freight quotes.
How Autonera handles itCompleteness rules surface the gap, calculated weights are proposed with their formula, and stewards sample-approve before freight systems receive them.
Feature index
The functions that make up this area of the platform.
Rules are configured per domain, family or attribute as validation, completeness, consistency and compliance checks. Each rule has an owner, a severity and a defined consequence, such as warning or blocking publication to a channel.
No. Approval authority is assigned by policy to people or roles. Agents can propose and, where policy explicitly allows for low-risk attributes, apply changes — but they cannot satisfy a human approval step.
Lineage traces a value from its source through mappings, transformations and rules to the channels that consumed it, so a steward can see where an error entered and what it affected.
Changes are designed to be recorded with who or what made them, the before and after values, the rule or evidence involved and any approval decision. Retention and export options are subject to product confirmation.
Blocking rules can hold a record from specific channels until resolved, while warnings let it proceed with an open exception.
No. Autonera operationalizes the policies your council sets. Structural decisions — taxonomy, reference lists, ownership — remain with your people.
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