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Recognition

This page lists public sources where organizations say they use the Data Contract CLI, plus the reviews it has received. All sources were checked in October 2026.

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Industry recognition​

  • Thoughtworks Technology Radar (November 2025), ring Trial: Thoughtworks recommends the CLI for creating and validating data contracts, detecting breaking changes, and enforcing contract governance between data products in CI/CD pipelines.
  • Astrafy (April 2024), Data Contract CLI — The future of Data Contract definition?: an evaluation by the data consultancy, which found that the CLI meets most of its requirements.

Blog posts​

OrganizationPostHow they use the CLI
10X, Inc. (Japan)しなやかなデータ連携に向けたdatacontract-cliへの貢献について紹介します (January 2025)Adopted the CLI for its data contracts and contributed BigQuery and dbt features needed for production use.
CADDi (Japan)15,000カラムの機密性を守る - CTOと実践したデータガバナンスの実現 (December 2025)A custom importer generates contracts from a spreadsheet of column confidentiality levels; the output drives BigQuery policy tags and masking through Terraform.
Finatext (Japan)Data Contract CLIでデータテストを行い、dbtのschemaを生成する CI/CD (December 2024)A GitHub Actions pipeline that lints contracts, tests them against real data, checks for breaking changes, generates an HTML catalog, and exports dbt schemas.

Public repositories and issues​

OrganizationSourceHow they use the CLI
Kartverket (Norwegian Mapping Authority)kartverket/dask-modules and issue #1280Imports contracts from Databricks Unity Catalog and validates tables with datacontract test on its data platform.
Association Infoclimat (France)AssociationInfoclimat/data-platformManages the association's data governance with ODCS contracts and the CLI.
UN Task Team for Scanner Dataprice-stats-data-catalogueA proof-of-concept data catalog for price statistics researchers, built with datacontract catalog and published on GitHub Pages.
Voloridge Investment ManagementIssue #196Adopting the CLI to enforce stricter guarantees on data shared between teams; requested the SQL Server support that the CLI now has.