The DG Foundation track

Five steps to a running program

Connect

Deploy the Procela edge connector inside your environment for on-prem databases — PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle — and dbt; connect cloud warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, and Databricks directly. Either way, Procela reads only schema, table, and column metadata where the data lives. No data leaves your perimeter — only metadata flows to the platform.

Classify

Reconcile discovered assets against your domains, and let Procela's AI agents propose classifications for anything unlabeled — routed for review before anything is applied.

Assign

Map assets to data domains and assign owners, stewards, and agents. Procela suggests stewardship based on your org structure, so accountability is explicit from day one.

Govern

Define policies in plain language. Procela records them as policies and controls against the assets they govern — access, retention, export controls — and tracks them in one place.

Audit

Every classification, assignment, and policy change is captured in a tamper-evident log. Audit prep becomes a query, not a fire drill.

The closed loop

Governance that keeps pace

Once the baseline is live, Procela keeps the loop moving: new assets are discovered and proposed for classification, stewardship is assigned, policies and controls are recorded, and the audit trail updates. AI-assisted suggestions surface the work; your team reviews and approves it instead of doing the busywork.

In the product

The program, running

Set up & launch

One journey from empty org to running program

Procela walks the whole program through four stages — Capture, Assign, Govern, Operate — showing exactly what's done, what's derived automatically from your catalog, and the next actions to advance it.

Procela's Set up Procela journey showing four stages — Capture, Assign, Govern, and Operate — with per-stage progress and a prioritized list of next actions.

Domains

Organize assets into governed domains

Group data assets under a single governance umbrella with assigned owners, stewards, and policies — the backbone of the classify and assign steps.

Procela data domains view with a domain list and a detail panel showing owner, stewards, and member data assets.

Organization

Model the org that governs the data

Map divisions, departments, and teams so ownership and stewardship land with the right people from the start.

Procela organizations view showing an expanded hierarchy of divisions and departments with people counts.

Council scorecard

Give the council one board to run on

Four measures — tier-1 coverage, classification, open issues, and exceptions — auto-derived from live data and rolled up from every division to the enterprise, so progress is visible, not anecdotal.

The Procela Governance Council Scorecard rolling four measures up from each division to the enterprise, with status badges and an auto-derived narrative.

An audit-ready baseline in under 30 days