Loop

Platform operating cycle

Platform operating cycle A five-station operating cycle read clockwise from the top. Ingest lands source drops; Validate runs schema and personal-data checks; Promote, the focal station, is the editorial gate that moves a dataset up a storage tier; Publish serves indicators to consumers; Review collects analyst feedback and hands the cycle back to Ingest. Every station writes durable state inward along a dashed spoke into the central data catalogue, which accumulates lineage, quality history and access policy across every pass. The catalogue is state, not a further step in the cycle. LINEAGE TIER RULE Data catalogue lineage · quality · policy 01 Ingest land source drops 02 Validate schema · personal-data checks 03 Promote the editorial tier gate 04 Publish serve indicators 05 Review analyst feedback