Why Provenance Graphs May Become Core Infrastructure for Enterprise AI

Most production AI stores predictions but not lineage, so it can't answer "why" deterministically when an auditor asks. This piece argues that relational provenance graphs — where entities are nodes and dependencies are edges — are becoming core enterprise-AI infrastructure, on par with the feature store and model registry. Modelling lineage as a graph turns traceability into a path query, makes anomaly propagation visible across a record's blast radius, and enables time-indexed snapshots for de...