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Introduction

DeltaVault is the context layer for AI-built data. It captures what your data means: your requirements, your glossary, your governance rules, and the mappings from business concepts to physical data. Generating a pipeline is cheap now, because AI and assisted coding produce one in minutes. Knowing what to build, and governing it, is the hard part, and that is what DeltaVault owns. It then feeds that context to generation, producing working pipelines for your target platform.

What happens when you first sign in

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There is no setup wizard and no tour. You sign in, you land on Projects, and the first thing you do is create one.

  1. Sign in. DeltaVault shows a sign-in card over whichever page you opened. You do not need to find a separate sign-in address first.
  2. Pick or create an organization. Everything in DeltaVault belongs to an organization: your connections, your catalog, your glossary, and the people who can see them. If you have not been invited to one, create one here.
  3. Wait for the organization to be prepared. A short message reads “Setting up your workspace” while DeltaVault creates the organization, your membership in it, and the main branch that your metadata changes will be committed against.
  4. You land on Projects. This is the home screen. A new organization has none yet, so the page reads “No projects yet.” and offers one button, New project.

Your first project

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Choose New project. It is a single form rather than a series of steps: name the project, and set the source and target connections it works against if you already have them. Create project saves it and opens the project itself.

A project opens on its Details tab, titled with the project’s own name. Alongside Details you get Workspaces, Canvas, Templates, Build and Validation. A new project has no workspaces, so the Workspaces tab reads Workspaces (0) with a New button.

Your first workspace

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A project is the unit of work. A workspace is a scoped area inside it, so that several people can work on different parts of the same project without colliding. Create one from the Workspaces tab.

A workspace opens with three tabs, Details, Canvas and Validation, and two actions in its header: Import metadata and Build. Those two are the loop you will spend most of your time in. Import metadata brings the structure of a real source into your catalog, either by uploading files or by discovering against a connection. Build generates pipeline code from what the catalog now knows.

Where to go next

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One thing to expect as you go: not every tab and screen named above is switched on for every organization. Builds, workflows and the template toolkit in particular can be absent from your sidebar while a colleague in another organization sees them. That is a setting rather than a missing feature, and your administrator can tell you which ones you have.