The data industry is evolving faster than ever, and staying ahead requires innovation, adaptability, and bold moves. That’s why Coalesce and CastorDoc are joining forces—to transform how organizations work with data.
Our companies have been solving complementary problems since their inception. Coalesce accelerates data development by automating manual and error-prone data transformation and engineering. CastorDoc focuses on data cataloging and governance so that every data consumer in an organization can securely find, understand, and use the data they need for their work. Now, we’re coming together to provide an integrated solution that data teams and data consumers alike can use with efficiency and ease.
By merging data governance and data transformation at the core, we’re eliminating the long-standing gap between data teams and their business stakeholders—ensuring faster, more reliable, and governed data access. We aren’t just combining two technologies—we’re taking a leap forward in fulfilling our mission to fundamentally improve how people work with data.
Solving data governance challenges with a shift-left approach
Robust advances in modern data platforms and technologies have enabled many organizations to successfully infuse data into their business operations and decision-making. However, that has come at a cost: organizations now generate, collect, and process so much data that they struggle to fully control and understand it.
Data catalogs promise to solve this governance problem by organizing metadata, enabling data discovery, tracking lineage, enforcing access controls, and supporting compliance. They provide visibility into data assets, helping organizations ensure data quality, security, and regulatory adherence.
However, too often organizations adopt data catalogs when it’s too late and they’ve already encountered security risks or are struggling with compliance issues. Worse yet, data catalogs are typically bolted onto a data stack as a standalone solution, becoming yet another tool for engineering teams to manage and explain to non-technical data consumers within the business. And for data consumers, data governance processes become a nuisance at best, slowing them down or even blocking them from accessing and using the data they need for their work.
Our solution is to shift data governance left and bring metadata management, lineage tracking, and governance closer to the data transformation layer. By making governance processes an integral part of how data pipelines are built and used, we transform compliance from a blocker to an enabler.
Coalesce enables data teams to visually construct and automate data transformations, significantly reducing manual, error-prone tasks, enhancing development speed, and ultimately ensuring data quality and consistency. CastorDoc’s AI-powered data catalog solution integrates with an organization’s entire data stack, enabling business users to easily search, navigate, and document data assets.
Together, we will provide a streamlined experience that eliminates friction and builds trust in data at every step—from data development to data consumption. Data and business teams can truly work together, defining and implementing the rules. Data democratization can finally become a reality.
Why now: The urgency to deliver trusted, AI-ready data at scale
Now more than ever, organizations need trusted, governed data to power not only business decisions, but AI innovation. Data teams are under pressure to move quickly, scale efficiently, and deliver AI-powered products and solutions. This mountain is too steep to climb carrying the weight of too many tools, many of which offer overlapping features and are time-consuming and labor-intensive to maintain.
Coalesce and CastorDoc are the first two early-stage Modern Data Stack companies providing complementary solutions to join forces, and we’re only getting started. We’re already seeing consolidation within the data industry, which we predict will continue to happen in the foreseeable future, to the benefit of data teams, business users, and the industry as a whole.
With CastorDoc, Coalesce customers gain greater visibility and governance across their entire data stack—not just within data transformation pipelines, but everywhere data lives. With Coalesce, CastorDoc customers gain the ability to operationalize data governance by embedding it directly into transformation workflows. And the industry gains a simpler, more efficient way to manage data, with reduced complexity and increased transparency.
Combine that with the emergence of agentic AI and maturation of automation-driven data operations, and the timing has never been better to deliver a unified platform that seamlessly integrates data engineering workflows with governance and cataloging capabilities.
For too long, data engineering teams have focused on pipeline development to extract, load, and transform data (ELT), while business users relied on catalogs and governance tools to manage data accessibility, view lineage, and ensure compliance. This siloed approach created inefficiencies, increased complexity, and slowed down the delivery of trusted data.
The time is right to break down those silos for good.
What’s next: Building the future of data together
As we work on delivering a product integration that helps customers take advantage of both our platforms together, we remain fully committed to supporting all of our partnerships within the data ecosystem. Our vision is to build a truly unified data experience for our customers and empower all teams to be more collaborative and productive.
We’re excited to continue innovating and supporting our customers and partners through this next chapter. The future of data is about trust, efficiency, and usability. Together, we’re making that future a reality.
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