Executive Summary

Many teams using hosted Postgres and DBaaS struggle to generate complete, auditable schema exports because most tooling omits enums and Row-Level Security (RLS) policies, leaving documentation and CI artifacts incomplete. This gap affects developers (25M professional developers globally), SREs, security and compliance teams, and auditors who need machine-readable, versioned representations of both structure and access rules. You could build a developer tool that exports schemas with full fidelity — including enums, RLS policies, role grants, and policy logic — into machine-readable formats (SQL, JSON/YAML, or bundled schema artifacts) and integrates with docs-as-code workflows and CI pipelines for diffing, testing, and release gating. Additional features would include provider-specific adapters for managed Postgres, policy simulation and validation, change provenance, and tight integrations with popular CI/CD and documentation platforms to reduce friction. The market is attractive now: a $9.0B addressable spend (25M developers × $360/year) combined with accelerating adoption of managed Postgres, stronger security/compliance requirements, and an industry shift toward docs-as-code creates clear demand for policy-aware, auditable schema artifacts. To stand out, focus on export fidelity and provenance, ship first-class adapters for major DBaaS providers, provide simple CLI and Git-native workflows, and surface policy differences and potential security regressions in developer-friendly ways. The challenges are real — medium competition, the engineering burden of keeping up with provider-specific behavior and complex RLS semantics, and the need to demonstrate measurable ROI to purchasing teams — but clear technical differentiation and early integrations with CI and DBaaS partners would materially lower adoption friction.

Market Opportunity

Include enums and RLS policies in schema export for complete docs targets a $9.0B = 25M professional developers x $360 annual spend on developer tooling & DB workflows total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 12% annual growth in developer tooling & DB-management tooling.

Key trends driving demand: Managed Postgres & DBaaS -- more teams use hosted Postgres with RLS, increasing need for policy-aware docs and exports.; Docs-as-code & CI-driven workflows -- teams want machine-readable and versioned schema artifacts that integrate into pipelines.; Security & compliance focus -- RLS and fine-grained access controls are rising priorities, driving demand for auditable policy exports.; AI-assisted developer tooling -- automated summarization/translation of policies and enums lets non-DB experts understand security and types..

Key competitors include dbdocs.io, Redgate (SQL Doc / SQL Toolbelt), SchemaSpy, JetBrains DataGrip, pgAdmin.

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