Causeway Platform · Roadmap · 2026

Where the road goes next.

Three horizons on the paved path. Now is the pavement under our wheels. Soon is the next stretch, visible ahead. Later is the horizon line, where we are heading. Items are indicative, not committed delivery dates.

Stream
Mile marker 1Under our wheelsNowIn flight · next quarter
Mile marker 10Next stretchSoonThis year · planned
Mile marker 100On the horizonLaterShape unclear · direction set
01FoundationDatabricks, cloud, and the core platform heavy lifting that everything else stands on.
Platform
Unity Catalog rollout
Regions us-east-1, eu-west-1 on the critical path.
Hardening
Production workspace hardening
Network isolation, secret scopes, audit pipe.
Identity
IAM federation (Okta to UC)
Replaces the shared service-principal pattern.
Resilience
Multi-region active / active
Read path first; write path after.
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Cost
Chargeback v2 per cost center
Workspace, cluster, and storage rolled up.
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Delivery
CI/CD for contract promotion
Silver to Gold gated by contract tests.
Cross-BU federated catalog
Platform cost forecasting
02UsabilitySelf-service surfaces, creator workflows, and UX cuts that make the paved path feel paved.
Onramp
Autobahn onramp
License, Register, Certify Roadworthy.
0023
Dashboard
Your Autobahn redesign
In-flight, in-service, waiting-on-you.
Search
Dataset search improvements
Faceted filter, typo tolerance, steward scope.
Templates
Contract-first dbt scaffolding
Generate dbt project from a Causeway contract.
Collab
Inline steward messaging
Threaded on the dataset, not in email.
Review
PR-style contract reviews
Diff, comment, approve, merge.
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Conversational dataset discovery
Creator-authored glossary flow
03DiscoveryKicking the tyres on emerging features and capabilities from our vendors, ahead of commitment.
Pilot
Lakeflow Connect pilot
CDC from 2 upstream systems.
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Evaluation
AI/BI Genie evaluation
Marketing Analytics as design partner.
Trial
Delta Live Tables trial
Medallion pipeline rewrite on one domain.
Federation
Lakehouse Federation for Snowflake
Read-only cross-engine queries.
Catalog
Iceberg REST catalog trial
Interop with external engines.
Databricks Agents
AI-drafted contracts
04Frameworks & ToolingThe frameworks, SDKs, and CLIs our creators use to build on the platform.
SDK
causeway-sdk for Python 1.0
Contracts, freshness checks, lineage hooks.
dbt
dbt macros for contracts
Generate and validate from project YAML.
CLI
Local-dev CLI
Run a contract campaign on your laptop.
SDK
TypeScript SDK beta
For app-side consumers of contracts.
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Linting
Contract lint pre-commit hook
Catch schema drift before CI.
Adapter
Snowflake adapter
Contract enforcement across engines.
Low-code contract builder
Platform IDE plugin
05Education & ContentThe curriculum, docs, and field notes that teach our creators how the paved path works.
Training
Autobahn LMS courses
Contracts, Classification, dbt, Astronomer.
Ritual
Weekly office hours
Creator questions, live, on the record.
Writing
Creator field notes
Editorial on contracts, lineage, governance.
Certification
Cert path for Accountable Architects
Mandatory prior to design review approvals.
Tutorials
Interactive contract tutorials
Step through a real contract promote flow.
Video
Video walkthroughs
Short-form, one concept per video.
Causeway certification program
Community-authored content platform
06Practices & StandardsThe shared norms that govern how creators build on the platform. Checklists, review rituals, and the living rules of the road.
Review
Design review checklist
What the Accountable Architect evaluates against.
Naming
Platform naming conventions
snake_case, tier suffixes, concept ID format.
Lifecycle
Contract lifecycle policy
Propose, draft, publish, retire.
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Incidents
Incident response runbook template
The shape every Roadworthy product must adopt.
Classification
Data classification playbook
Operationalizes RAG across the catalog.
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Rituals
Steward rituals guide
Reviews, rotations, escalations, hand-offs.
Cross-BU standards council
Community-authored standards contribution
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Links, numbers, and customer names welcome.
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Now: Committed, in flight this quarter.Soon: Planned for this year.Later: Direction set, shape and timing still to be decided.Not: a Gantt chart. Not a project plan. A map of intent.