Fresh off the announcement of Coalesce acquiring AI-driven data catalog company CastorDoc, now Coalesce Catalog, co-founders Tristan Mayer and Xavier de Boisredon join the Data T podcast to talk about how it all came together, why his marks a major shift in the industry, how the Modern Data Stack is evolving, and what’s next.

The conversation highlights both companies’ shared vision of making data governance simpler, more intuitive, and embedded early in the data lifecycle. The founders break down three categories of AI applications in data—AI-assisted governance, metadata-driven analytics, and enterprise AI use cases—and stress how strong data foundations are essential to enable all of them. Watch the full episode to learn more about the challenges of making data governance accessible and actionable to a broad range of data users, how organizations can solve those challenges by shifting governance left, and more.

Key Topics

• CastorDoc’s founding story
• Shifting data governance left
• Exploring AI use cases in data governance and data catalogs
• Building trust through data strategy
• The democratization of data skills and insights

Resources

➡️ About Coalesce: https://coalesce.io/

➡️ Practical Data Modeling Substack: https://practicaldatamodeling.substac...

➡️ Coalesce podcast archive: https://coalesce.io/podcast/