How to use the Data dictionary template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Data dictionary template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Data dictionary”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Write for the analyst who joins next month. Every “watch out” you have learnt the hard way belongs in the last column.”
Fill in each part
- Table Columns: Field · Meaning · Type and values · Source · Watch out
Bring your team and your agents
Invite people to the board or share a link, and work on it together live. The timer is in the top bar, private mode and voting in the board menu, and Claude or ChatGPT can join through Freero’s MCP server.

Work on it with an AI agent

Connect an assistant once and it works on the board with you, with your permissions: by default it reads and proposes, and people decide.

You ask: “Fill in the Data dictionary board from these notes.”
What happens It reads the board, then proposes sticky notes for it. Nothing changes until someone on the board accepts them.
You ask: “Group what we wrote into themes and list the actions.”
What happens It proposes clusters with a title each and task cards for the actions, labelled with its name and yours.

Data model (ERD)
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Data source inventory
List every system your reporting pulls from, who owns it, how data gets out, how often and how much you trust it.
Metric drop investigation
Work out why a key number suddenly changed, step by step: is it real, where is it, when did it start and what caused it.
Sequence diagram
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System architecture
Users, apps, services, data stores and outside providers, with what talks to what.
CI/CD pipeline
From pull request to production across four lanes, with BPMN events, tasks and gateways.