Source
Acquire bounded data from approved providers. Every extract is scoped, rate-limited, and tied to the terms it arrived under.
Governed data operations
Bring trusted source data into the products that depend on it, with a clear record of how it was acquired, verified, and delivered.
Ingestion topology
Bounded acquisition → governance gate → verified deliveryIllustrative source classes are categories of provider, not named integrations or endorsements. Provider attribution and licence terms are tracked per connector.
One governed Confluendo instance for early operators.
Platform directionIndependently provisioned, customer-isolated service instances.
How it works
Acquire bounded data from approved providers. Every extract is scoped, rate-limited, and tied to the terms it arrived under.
Verify scope, evidence, and delivery readiness. Simulation runs first, and a failed gate stops the path.
Hand a signed package to the consuming product's inbox. Consumer apply is never a silent write.
Source classes
Each class arrives with its own terms and failure modes. Every one walks the same governed path, so its obligations travel with the data instead of living in someone's head.
These are provider categories, not named integrations or endorsements.
Community-maintained geography and points of interest.
share-alike · attributedAdministrative boundaries, postcodes, gazetteers, and coordinate frames.
reference · versionedVenue and business listings with defined scope and coverage.
scoped · rate-boundedContracted provider data with negotiated terms and refresh cadence.
contracted · terms-trackedOfficial company, property, transport, and regulatory registers.
official · evidencedTimetables, availability, pricing, and other fast-moving feeds.
time-boxed · perishableCustomer-supplied files and internal extracts on the same governed path.
owned · consent-trackedStructured records derived from published documents and filings.
derived · provenance-linkedLifecycle
Each batch walks the same path, and each step leaves a record. Operators approve the boundaries; the platform performs the bounded work.
A bounded extract arrives with its terms, scope, and source record.
A dry run proves the shape before any product data is written.
A bounded staging write is checked against the declared expectation.
A checksummed delivery package is assembled for a named consumer.
The package waits safely in the consuming product's inbox.
The consumer decides when to apply it. Only then do its product tables change.
The record
Every promotion carries an approver, timestamp, checksum, and stated reason. An audit becomes a query, not an archaeology project.
Every promotion is tied to an authenticated operator with step-up verification.
Acquisition, simulation, verification, and delivery all carry timestamps.
Delivery batches are content-addressed, so what shipped is provable.
Approvals and overrides require a written reason kept with the record.
Operator access is provisioned while Confluendo expands from this first operated instance toward independently provisioned customer environments.