Published
Jun 11, 2025
The World's First Collaborative Data Contracts
You can’t prevent what you don’t agree on.
Today, we’re introducing Soda Collaborative Data Contracts—a new way for data producers and consumers to align on expectations and stop issues before they hit production.
It’s one interface. One workflow. One shared contract between teams.
Backed by code when you want it. Visual when you don’t.
Why This Matters
Data issues usually start upstream and get discovered downstream.
By the time someone catches it, the damage is already done: broken dashboards, unreliable KPIs, and long debug threads.
Data contracts fix that—if they’re usable.
Most aren’t. They’re either:
Too rigid to deploy
Too technical for stakeholders
Or too disconnected from real-world systems
Soda makes data contracts actually usable.
They’re collaborative, flexible, and built to bridge business + engineering from day one.
How It Works
📝 Turn anomalies into contracts
Spot an issue with metrics observability? Click to promote it into a check—then enforce it upstream through a contract.
🤝 Shared UI for producers and consumers
Business, data, and platform teams can all view, define, and enforce expectations—no silos, no lost context, no extra meetings.
🔧 Code or no-code
Author contracts as YAML, or define them through an intuitive low-code UI. Use whatever fits your team’s workflow.
💡 Shift data quality left
Define expectations early, enforce them automatically, and prevent bad data from ever reaching production.
What It Enables
With Collaborative Data Contracts, you can:
Catch failures before they propagate
Replace fragile Slack threads with real rules
Keep producers and consumers aligned in one place
Harden the paths that matter—while staying flexible where you need to
It’s fast to deploy. Easy to adapt. And built to evolve with your data.
Built for the Way You Work
✅ Use it with the Soda CLI
✅ Use it inside the UI
✅ Create from scratch or from alerts
✅ Sync with existing check definitions
✅ Schedule it, version it, deploy it
This isn’t an aspirational framework. It’s a production-ready tool.
Collaborate. Codify. Prevent.
This is how data quality finally scales across teams.
Read our docs on Data Testing to learn more about the new features.
Try It Now
The self-serve account creation for Soda Cloud is temporarily paused as we're preparing the general availability of several major updates. If you want to try Soda Cloud in the meantime, please schedule a call with our team of experts, discuss your use case, and get started.
