Medallion Architecture

Bronze. Silver. Gold.
Every layer governed.

Medallion architecture structures your data lake into three progressive trust layers. Tantor governs all three — from raw ingestion through semantic alignment — so every layer answers regulators and agents alike.

3 layers
Bronze → Silver → Gold
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Governed from landing
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Classification at each layer
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Ungoverned staging data

From source
to governed output.

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Bronze

Raw data lands exactly as extracted — classified, lineage-tracked, and access-controlled from arrival

2

Silver

Cleansed, standardised, quality-validated — duplicates resolved, formats harmonised, PII masked

3

Gold

Semantically aligned, consumption-grade — business logic applied, agent-ready, report-ready

4

Govern

Policies enforced at every layer transition — no data moves without classification and lineage

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Consume

AI agents, BI tools, and analysts access the layer appropriate to their use case and permissions

Three problems.
One root cause.

Without a governed platform, these problems compound with every new data source and every new AI deployment.

The data swamp.

Enterprises that adopted data lakes without a layered architecture have repositories where raw, semi-processed, and analysis-ready data coexist with no quality progression and no governance differentiation.

No quality progression.

Without defined layers, there is no structured process for data to mature from raw to trusted. The same data may be cleaned differently by different teams.

Governance only at the endpoint.

Most organisations govern data only when it reaches the reporting layer. Raw ingestion, intermediate transformations, and staging tables are ungoverned space.

What medallion architecture
delivers.

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Bronze — governed source of truth.

Raw data preserved exactly as extracted, but not ungoverned. Classified, lineage-tracked, and access-controlled from landing. The immutable record of what arrived and when.

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Silver — quality-validated intelligence.

Cleansed, standardised, deduplicated, and PII-masked. Quality rules applied consistently — not ad hoc. The trusted working layer for analytical teams.

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Gold — consumption-grade output.

Business logic applied, semantic alignment complete, domain terminology standardised. The layer AI agents and regulated reports consume — proven, auditable, trustworthy.

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Governed layer transitions.

Every promotion from Bronze to Silver to Gold is a governed event — quality gates passed, policies enforced, lineage extended. No data advances without documentation.

Built with
regulators in mind.

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Layer Transition Audit

Every Bronze → Silver → Gold promotion logged — what changed, what quality gate passed, who approved.

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PII at Bronze

Sensitive data classified and masked at landing — before any downstream access.

Layer-Spanning Lineage

Trace any Gold record back through Silver to its Bronze origin and the original source system.

Quality Gates

Data advances only when it meets defined quality thresholds — no silent degradation.

Three layers.
One trusted foundation.

See how Tantor governs every layer of your medallion architecture — from raw Bronze through semantic Gold — with full lineage, quality gates, and compliance-ready audit trails.