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Projects: A Governed Space for Collaboration

As data and AI initiatives grow, assets become scattered, business context is lost, and managing who has access to what becomes a significant challenge. Projects are Arkham's answer to this complexity. A Project is the central, collaborative workspace where you organize all the resources for a specific business outcome.

For a builder, a Project is the launch pad that transforms a collection of technical assets into a cohesive, understandable, and governed business solution.

How Projects Bring Order to Your Work

At its core, a Project groups together disparate resources and links them with business context and a unified permissions model. This creates a secure, collaborative, and auditable environment for your teams.

graph TD
    subgraph "Project: Customer Churn Initiative"
        direction LR

        subgraph ProjectAssets
            direction TB

            subgraph "Business Context"
                A[Project Canvas]
            end

            subgraph "Data & ML Resources"
                D1[Dataset: raw_customer_data]
                P1[Pipeline: Clean & Transform]
                D2[Dataset: customer_master]

                M1[ML Model: Churn Prediction]
                W1[Workbook: Churn Analysis]

                D1 -- "Input for" --> P1
                P1 -- "Creates" --> D2
                D2 -- "Training Data for" --> M1
                D2 -- "Source for" --> W1
                M1 -- "Analyzed in" --> W1
            end

            A -. "Documents & Links to" .-> P1
            A -.-> D2
            A -.-> M1
            A -.-> W1
        end

        subgraph "Access Control"
            U1(User: Data Scientist Role: Editor)
            U2(User: BI Analyst Role: Viewer)
        end

        U1 -- "Manages" --> ProjectAssets
        U2 -- "Views" --> ProjectAssets
    end

    style D1 fill:#FAD7A0
    style D2 fill:#FFD700
    style P1 fill:#AED6F1
    style M1 fill:#D2B4DE
    style W1 fill:#A9DFBF
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AI-Assisted Resource Discovery with TARS

You can use TARS to instantly find resources within a project, saving you from manually searching through folders and checking permissions.

"TARS, show me all datasets in the 'Q4 Financial Reporting' project."
"TARS, list the pipelines in the 'Fraud Detection' project that I can edit."

Key Features

  • A Unified Workspace: A Project provides a single home for every asset related to an initiative. The Project Canvas acts as a Notion-style document for goals, findings, and collaboration, while the Project Files tab provides a complete, filterable inventory of every dataset, pipeline, and model.
  • Inherited Permissions: Governance is radically simplified by managing access at the Project level. Users assigned as Owner, Editor, or Viewer automatically inherit the appropriate permissions for every resource contained within the project. This eliminates the need to manage dozens of individual ACLs.
  • Enhanced Discoverability and Context: By grouping assets by business purpose, Projects make it easy for team members to find what they need. The Project Canvas ensures that the "why" behind the work is documented directly alongside the technical assets, accelerating onboarding and collaboration.
  • Full Auditability: With all resources and user activity scoped to a Project, it becomes simple to create a complete, auditable trail for compliance and review.
  • Governance Overview: Learn how Projects fit into the broader governance framework.
  • Data Catalog: Discover and add datasets to your Project.
  • Pipeline Builder: Build and manage pipelines that are owned by your Project.
  • TARS: Your AI co-pilot for accelerating project setup and management.