Roles and Artifacts

Roles

Roles are responsibilities, not job titles. In a small business, one person may hold all of them. Many already exist under other names, such as data steward, BI lead or finance analyst.

Role	Responsibility	Often held by
Meaning owner	Accountable for what a concept or perspective means within a scope	Business leader for that area (e.g., Services Lead)
Metric owner	Approves a Metric Contract and its changes	Same person as the meaning owner, or Finance for financial metrics
Steward	Writes and maintains definitions, answer rules and checks	Analyst, data steward, finance analyst
Enterprise authority	Sets enterprise defaults and decides cross-functional conflicts	Controller, CDAO, or a small forum
Builder	Implements definitions in reports, semantic layers and AI tools	BI developer, analytics engineer
Consumer owner	Accountable for how a report suite or AI assistant uses meaning	Report owner, AI product owner
Checker	Runs checks and keeps evidence	Analyst, QA, AI governance team

Artifacts

Artifact	What it is	Practice
Metric Contract	Signature artifact (Semantic Contract for numbers): the agreed definition of one number for one perspective	Measurement Management
Definition Contract	Semantic Contract for business terms: meaning, perspectives, classification rules, owners	Modeling, Authority
Answer rule	Which perspective applies in which context, and when to ask	Resolution
Conflict record	A declared, owned, undecided disagreement	Authority
Build record	Where a contract is implemented, and whether it matches	Implementation
Check	A question with an expected answer, and its results	Assurance
Claim trace	The record that backs up a specific reported number	Assurance
Change note	What changed, why, and from when	Lifecycle Management

Templates: templates/. Machine-readable forms: reference/spec.