ATLANTA — July 31, 2025 — HatchWorks AI today announced the availability of Data QA with Data Contracts and SQL on the Databricks Marketplace, giving data, analytics, and AI teams a simpler way to govern, validate, and trust data across the Lakehouse.
Built on the Open Data Contract Standard (ODCS) and natively integrated with Databricks, the offering turns human-readable contracts into enforceable checks. It flags schema drift and data quality issues before they break dashboards or ML pipelines. ODCS is an open, YAML-based standard stewarded by BITOL under the Linux Foundation.
With enforceable data contracts on Databricks, teams move faster and safer. You get trust, alignment, and confidence—at scale.
Key features and starter assets for Databricks teams
- Dynamic contract management with customizable parameters and validation rules
- Schema validation against JSON Schema definitions
- Data quality rules and execution tracking with comprehensive logging
- LLM assistance using Databricks-hosted models to help generate contracts and rules
- Starter assets: sample datasets (e.g., a patients table using Faker), a sample YAML contract, and an embedded notebook for quick trials
Built for the Databricks Lakehouse
HatchWorks AI’s implementation stores contract definitions and metadata in Unity Catalog, enforces rules in Delta Live Tables (DLT) and Databricks Workflows/Jobs, and provides monitoring dashboards and alerts—so violations are quarantined early and certified data flows to downstream BI and ML with confidence. Native integration with Delta Lake’s ACID transactions ensures data consistency during validation processes.
Faster AI delivery, fewer outages, built-in governance
Organizations gain faster AI & analytics delivery, fewer outages, and governance by design, while improving trust, ownership clarity, and cross-team alignment on definitions and SLAs. Support for both batch and streaming workloads ensures comprehensive coverage across modern data architectures.
Available on the Databricks Marketplace
Data QA with Data Contracts and SQL (HWDataContracts) is available now on the Databricks Marketplace. Prospective users can explore the listing and try the included sample assets to evaluate fit in their environment.
About Databricks
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 15,000 organizations worldwide — including Block, Comcast, Condé Nast, Rivian, Shell, and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to take control of their data and put it to work with AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe, and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, MLflow, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on X, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
About HatchWorks AI
HatchWorks AI is a digital innovation firm that builds AI-powered products and platforms to drive smarter business outcomes. With a multidisciplinary team of engineers, data scientists, UI/UX designers, and product strategists, HatchWorks AI transforms visionary ideas into enterprise-grade software solutions. Committed to delivering exceptional experiences, HatchWorks AI leverages Agile methodologies, cloud infrastructure, and cutting-edge technologies to help clients navigate digital disruption and maintain a competitive edge.
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