Know the impact of every
code and data change
across the business

Easily change dbt
Without breaking Looker

Organizations lose time, trust, and money when changes slip through without oversight. Impact analysis surfaces these risks early so teams can prevent operational and business impact.

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Automated impact analysis keeps changes safe

Changes are analyzed before merging to reveal affected assets, owners, and business implications, enabled by a code first approach unmatched in the market.

Pull Request opened

A new PR triggers an automated scan of all modified code and schema changes.

Impact analysis runs

The dependency graph identifies downstream tables, models, dashboards, and owners that rely on the updated code.

Results posted to source control / posted to git

A detailed comment appears instantly with affected assets, severity, and suggested owners to involve.

Automated escalation for complex dependency changes

Complex or impactful pull requests are escalated beyond the individual contributor level, ensuring the right leaders assess and approve changes before merging.

Protect business critical data flows while accelerating delivery

Gain clarity on what will break, who is impacted, and how to resolve issues before changes reach production.

Automatic pull request analysis

Every pull request is scanned in seconds with no manual workflow changes.

Complete impact visibility

See all downstream dependencies and affected owners in one place.

Surface data and code issues

Identify schema changes, removed fields, and type mismatches automatically.

Collaborative resolution

Automatically inform the responsible teams in the systems they use every day, ensuring efficient triage and resolution.

Impact visibility that eliminates blind spots across your data landscape

Stop unexpected breaks in dashboards, create consistent contracts between teams, and enforce rules that safeguard production AI from unstable inputs.

Stable analytics and dashboards

Stop unexpected column or logic changes from breaking downstream dashboards, metrics, and production models.

Clear contracts between teams

Define expected inputs, outputs, and behaviors at every data interface so teams avoid accidental breaks and unowned changes.

Guardrails for production AI

Ensure data feeding models remains accurate and stable by enforcing rules that prevent harmful upstream changes.

“Foundational gave us instant clarity on our data. With column-level lineage, we stopped wasting hours chasing data lineage and started fixing issues before they became problems.”
Eyal El-Bahar, VP of BI and Analytics
"A data change can impact things your team may be unaware of, leading folks to draw potentially flawed conclusions about growth initiatives. We needed a tool to give us end-to-end visibility into every modification.”
Iñigo Hernandez, Engineering Manager
“With Foundational, our team has a secure automated code review and validation process that assures data quality. That’s priceless.”
Omer Biber, Head of Business Intelligence
“Foundational has been instrumental in helping us minimize redundancy and improve data visibility, enabling faster migrations and smoother collaboration across teams.”
Qun Wei, VP Data Analytics
“Foundational helps our teams release faster and with confidence. We see issues before they happen.”
Analytics Engineering Lead

See the business impact before changes are made

Give your team the clarity to prevent incidents and deliver trusted changes on every deployment.

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How does impact analysis evaluate pull requests?

Impact analysis runs a real time dependency evaluation across SQL, Python, Spark, and model logic. When a pull request is opened, the engine identifies all downstream assets that would be affected by the change and returns results within seconds.

 What git platforms are supported for pull request analysis?

Impact analysis connects directly to GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps. No new UI is required and teams continue working in their existing workflow.  Installation takes minutes and results appear directly in the pull request.

Does impact analysis connect to CI and CD tools?

Yes. It integrates with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab CI, and Azure Pipelines. Teams can enforce quality gates, require approvals, or block high risk merges automatically.

How are breaking changes and downstream risks communicated to the team?

Notifications can be sent to Slack, Microsoft Teams, email, or PagerDuty. Each alert includes the downstream assets affected, the risk level, and the owners who should review the change.

Does impact analysis show the full downstream impact on pipelines and dashboards?

Yes. The analysis engine maps complete data dependencies, showing how a code change affects tables, models, transformations, BI objects, and metrics. This prevents broken dashboards and failed pipelines.

Can this scale to large enterprise pipelines, monorepos, and high pull request volume?

Yes. The analysis engine is optimized for large repositories and complex data ecosystems. It handles high pull request volume, deep dependency chains, and heavy workshop pipelines without performance issues.

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