# A governed lakehouse your executives can question

> A data platform is only useful if people can ask it a question and believe the answer. We stand Databricks up with Unity Catalog first, then ingestion, then the layers and the Genie space. The six-week Lakehouse Launchpad is the named build.

Canonical: https://www.techfabric.com/expertise/data-platform

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Leaving a warehouse, or stalled after a pilot. A lakehouse with Unity Catalog, ingestion that holds, and a semantic layer someone will actually use.

## What we build

- Unity Catalog structure before the first pipeline
- Ingestion through Lakeflow or Jobs, whichever suits the source
- Bronze, silver and gold layers for the domains you name at the start
- A Genie space with definitions you can score, not a demo that dies in week three

## Questions

### How do you stand a Databricks lakehouse up?

The Lakehouse Launchpad at /databricks/launchpad is the six-week build: identity and environment strategy, Unity Catalog, ingestion, medallion layers, dashboards, and a Genie space with real semantic definitions. Scope is fixed at the start, and in practice the thing that moves a date is how long it takes to get access.

### We are still on a warehouse. Do we start with a build?

Not if the scope is still an argument. The Migration Readiness Sprint at /databricks/migration-readiness inventories the estate, agrees the exclusions, and hands you a wave plan. TechFabric Airlift at /accelerators/airlift is the migration factory that sprint runs on.

### What stops Genie contradicting finance?

Definitions that live in the semantic layer, and a suite that scores answers against ground truth. TechFabric Experiments at /accelerators/experiments keeps that suite running. When a rollout has already lost the room, Genie Accuracy at /databricks/genie-accuracy is the two-to-four week engagement.

### Do we have to rebuild a lakehouse that already works?

No. The Launchpad is for standing something up. If you already have a workspace, the Databricks Health Check at /databricks/health-check assesses what is there before anyone proposes rebuilding it.