[slotrans]

Wait, is it curated, or is it search? To me "search" implies that the tool _discovers_ my stuff and makes it searchable. If I have to tell it about my stuff ("curation"), then that's just a metadata catalog.

The reason the distinction matters is that if it's curation-based, the onus is still on the data team to document all relevant assets, which they could already do, and have already demonstrated they don't want to.

Now, it could still be a good metadata catalog! Most of what's out there is bad. But if that's what you're shooting for, pitching it as "search" will be confusing.

[andrewmcewen]

That's a great point, we think of Secoda as _both_ a search and curation tool. The search portion of the tool is accomplished through the no-code integrations. When you connect Snowflake, for example, we extract metadata about the tables in Snowflake such as the columns, descriptions, number of queries run, people who are frequently using that table, etc. All that information becomes searchable in the catalog. After a company integrates all of their data sources, we see that teams leverage the curation capabilities of the product. Editors can add documentation through our documentation editor to provide additional context about the data resources that are discoverable in Secoda. In addition, teams can add shared definitions of metrics, answer questions that are asked by data consumers, and create ad hoc analyses that are also discoverable.