Board-source watch list
Tag the marts and snapshots that feed the deck and set tighter thresholds for board week.
Use case · Reporting
Board deck confidence
Freeze the numbers that go in the board pack — with a freshness check first.
The problem
Board week: slides pull from Looker/Sheets that sit on BigQuery marts. A silent dbt skip or stale snapshot makes it into the PDF. Nobody catches it until a board member asks.
The outcome
Treat board-source tables as watched assets. VectorData confirms freshness and recent dbt success so the pack reflects the warehouse you think it does.
Pre-deck
Freshness check before export
dbt signal
Failed models called out early
Calm alert
One ping — not Slack chaos
Capabilities
dbt run confidence
Failed models and tests that sit under board metrics surface in the same incident queue.
Cost sanity check
Catch a rogue full-scan explore the week before finance reviews warehouse spend.
Audit trail you can cite
Show when each source last updated — enough for “we verified freshness at 6am.”
- ✓Combines freshness + dbt failure triage already live in VectorData
- ✓No row-level access — board numbers stay in your warehouse
- ✓Pair with a Data Stack Health Audit before a high-stakes board cycle
- ✓Flat pricing — board week does not change your Vectornosis bill
Related
Watchdog / Fix first
AI ranks stale tables, failed dbt runs, and cost spikes into one Fix-first queue.
Read →Executive KPI trust
Know the KPI tables are fresh before the Monday leadership meeting.
Read →Data contracts / SLOs
Freshness targets and owner expectations per table — on the roadmap.
Read →Pipeline on-call
Escalation and mute windows for data incidents — without pager chaos.
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