ContractLens — Adaptive schema and format translator with human-in-loop
9/10
Demand Score
Integrations stall because teams can’t reconcile nested, evolving API payloads with relational targets and downstream SLAs.
9/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$800-5k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
10 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Moderate
The Problem
Learns semantic contracts from real payloads and query usage, then generates reversible, versioned adapters between incompatible schemas (JSON/XML/CSV/SQL). Provides an example-driven mapping studio,
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This problem has been verified through 4 real user complaints:
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Competitor Landscape
- Talend Data Mapper
- MuleSoft DataWeave
- TIBCO Scribe
- dbt + custom macros
- Airbyte custom mappings
Must-Have Features for MVP
Contract discovery from samples and logs
Example-to-DSL mapping with confidence scores
Auto-generated unit tests and fixtures
Versioned adapters with instant rollback
Schema drift diffs and impact analysis
Typed SDK shims and dbt model emission
Slack/Teams approval workflow with change summaries
PII detection and masking policies
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Sparse labeled examples for auto-mapping
- Frequent API version changes
- Nested/array-heavy JSON to relational flattening
- PII handling during profiling
Risk Level: Moderate
🎯 Keys to Success
- Time-to-first-mapping under 1 day
- >95% mapping accuracy before human edits
- >70% reduction in transform-related pipeline failures
- Safe rollback in <2 minutes
- Adoption by 3+ teams within first month
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