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Pathfinder Automapping: AI That Generates Your Data Mappings.

Data mapping is the bottleneck in integration work, and the work is mechanical. Your team knows the source format and they know the target, but mapping between them field by field is what eats the time. Each new trading partner, each new API connection, each schema update adds another round of manual translation. An experienced engineer on a clean spec needs two to three days. A complex one takes longer. And every mapping built by hand tends to live mostly in the head of the person who built it.

This is the problem Pathfinder Automapping was built to solve. Pathfinder is the AI in the Lobster Data Platform. Until now it has worked alongside you as a co-pilot, helping you find functions, write queries, and build patterns in plain language. In 26.3 it takes on data mapping itself. Pathfinder Automapping reads your source and target formats and proposes a mapping between them, in the context of your actual profiles. You provide the specifications, Pathfinder analyses the field relationships and generates the mapping, and you review and adjust it before applying. The mechanical translation moves from days to an afternoon of review, and your experts spend their time on the edge cases and business logic where their judgement actually counts.

To keep that review honest, every proposed assignment carries a field-level confidence score. You can see which assignments Pathfinder is most certain about, where confidence is lower, and where to focus your attention first. That keeps a person in the loop and makes the result far easier to validate than a large block of generated code you are asked to trust on faith.

Key capabilities:

• AI-generated field mapping: Pathfinder proposes source-to-target mappings from format understanding and semantic context, in the context of your actual profile.
• Review before applying: the mapping is always a proposal. Every field assignment is visible and editable before anything is written to the profile.
• Field-level confidence scoring: each assignment comes with a confidence indication, so your team can judge trust, prioritise review, and validate the result with far more transparency.
• Execution validation: test the proposed mapping against sample data before you commit. Output is validated against the target schema, so issues surface before production.

Why it matters: Pathfinder Automapping removes the mechanical burden, so expert time goes to the decisions that need judgement. It does not replace the expert, and the field-level confidence score keeps a person in control of the result. For teams running many integrations at once, this compounds with every project, and each new partner or format change is faster than the one before. This is the first release, and we will keep improving accuracy and building on the architecture through 2026 and 2027.

Further Improvements.

Beyond the three headline features, 26.3 ships a broad set of improvements. Small things compound when you are in a platform every day.

• Trading Partner Manager, HTTPS channels: configure and manage inbound and outbound HTTPS channels, with URL validation, OpenID and OAuth2 authentication, certificate management, secure secret storage, and custom HTTP headers. The client and host setup screens get a redesigned flow with clearer controls, which takes the friction out of complex channel settings like FTPS and HTTPS.
• Security, AMQP OAuth2: AMQP now supports OAuth2 authentication with client credentials. This is the default flow for SAP Event Mesh and a requirement for connecting the platform to SAP via AMQP for real-time event streaming.
• Process Map export: capture your integration landscape as a document for sharing, auditing, or documentation. Export formats include PNG, SVG, JSON, and XML.
• Design system in the form designer: the updated Lobster design system is now integrated into the form designer and editor, with typography variant controls, border and margin settings, and the updated visual language.
• Updated UI themes: refreshed light and dark modes with refined colours, spacing, and typography for a more consistent interface. Existing custom template colours stay as they are.
• SSO and login controls: password fields now show whether a local password is set and disable when local login is off, and two new columns show password and SSO provider status, which makes authentication audits more practical across large user bases.

With 26.3, Pathfinder takes on data mapping itself, and that is the change we would most like you to see in action.

Summer Release 26.3 is available to all Lobster Data Platform customers from 14 July 2026. Lobster Cloud installations are upgraded automatically as part of the regular upgrade cycle. For self-managed installations, we recommend upgrading your test environment before production.

Release notes: https://docs.lobstersoftware.com/docs/en/ldp-update-26-3-0