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Introducing NEAT 1.0: Build Better Data Models, Faster!

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  • December 10, 2025
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ane.eide
Practitioner

We are on a mission to help everyone build and deploy better, more scalable, and Atlas AI-ready data models in Cognite Data Fusion. Today, we introduce NEAT 1.0 as an official part of our product tooling.

 

Why NEAT 1.0 Matters 

A reliable, scalable, and usable data model is the bedrock of the Knowledge Graph in Cognite Data Fusion. NEAT 1.0 is designed to give you confidence that your models are usable, scalable, extendable, and performant. We've taken years of deep product expertise and hard-earned experience from our most demanding customers and turned it into concrete feedback and guardrails you can leverage in your automated development workflow, giving you help exactly when you need it.

What's New? 

  •  Faster & Focused: We concentrated on physical data modeling and made NEAT significantly faster than previous versions. We also adopted a clean, object-oriented approach for interacting with features.
  • Better Quality Checks: We've included a ~2x larger library of data model validators (constantly growing at thisisneat.io/validation). This means more checks to ensure your model is viable, scalable, and maintainable.
  • Deep Pre-Deployment Analysis: The dry-run feature was completely rebuilt to give you a deep, clear analysis of the changes that will occur, including a severity score, before you even push your model to CDF.
  • Easy Issue Navigation: You get rich analysis of data model issues with interactive navigation, search, and clustering, making it simple to find and fix problems.
  • Ready for Governance: We take a user-centric approach to anything graph related, offering four pre-built, configurable data model governance profiles to jumpstart your quality assurance.

What About Legacy Features?

NEAT 1.0 embraces focus and minimalism. To make this release more performant and easier to maintain, we removed some features from older, legacy versions that did not align with our new, streamlined approach. Legacy features continue to be available from cognite.neat.legacy import NeatSession while we continue to port these features to V1.

 

Getting started?

Watch the short video and check out https://cognite-neat.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/latest/installation.html to try for yourself!

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  • Committed
  • December 10, 2025

Love the validators and the better interface to understand what needs to be addressed and why. Showing what changed and identifying any breaking changes is also a nice feature. Still feel like a UI upgrade to rev the model and make changes that suits an information modeler persona is required. Hope more is coming in this space. Great job team. Keep up the good work


Nikola  Vasiljevic
Practitioner

Love the validators and the better interface to understand what needs to be addressed and why. Showing what changed and identifying any breaking changes is also a nice feature. Still feel like a UI upgrade to rev the model and make changes that suits an information modeler persona is required. Hope more is coming in this space. Great job team. Keep up the good work

More to come 😉


Akash Sood
MVP
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  • MVP
  • December 11, 2025

Neat v1 looks cool


I really appreciate the new features, like categorization of the validation result with a better functional presentation and the governance options are needed additions.
Looking forward to the next release, well done.

 

I really appreciate the new features, such as the improved categorization of validation results and the enhanced functional presentation. The addition of governance options is a valuable and much-needed improvement. Hope extended RDF/OWL2 support is in the pipeline :)
Looking forward to the next release—great job!