Commit to one table contract

Create a minimum viable data contract for a high-risk shared table such as stg_salesforce_account, payment_events, subscription_status, or product_inventory_snapshot. Use this when a table has multiple downstream consumers, unclear grain, source schema changes, or business terms that people interpret differently. Dataset: [name]. Owner: [team]. Grain: [one row means]. Required fields: [list]. Semantic rules: [definitions or accepted values]. Quality tests: [at least two]. Freshness: [target]. Change rule: [notice, dual-write, or versioning rule]. Review in 3 days whether the owner and one consumer accepted the contract and whether two tests are linked. A Salesforce staging table feeds account-health, lifecycle email, and revenue operations…

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