Every team with a real Postgres schema eventually hits the same wall: you need a populated database to develop, test, and demo — but you can't use production data. Either it's regulated (PII, PCI, HIPAA), or the company doesn't exist yet, or your distributed team isn't cleared to touch it.
The existing options are all bad. Anonymizing production data means enterprise tools that start at $200K/year and take weeks to set up. Writing a seed script means something fragile that breaks on every migration, with [email protected] everywhere. Using Faker or Mockaroo means no foreign key awareness, and the whole thing falls apart past 10 related tables.
Seedfast is the third option: realistic, relational data generated from your schema alone, no production access required.
Seedfast reads your live Postgres schema, takes a natural-language scope (for example, "fintech app with 100 accounts, transactions, and varied balances"), and fills your database in one CLI command. Foreign keys resolve automatically. Values are domain-appropriate — names look like names, transactions look like transactions, dates make sense. The same tool works for 10 rows in a unit test and hundreds of thousands in a load test — you adjust the scope, not the tooling.
Because nothing ever connects to production, there's no PII pipeline to maintain, no security review to clear, no compliance risk to mitigate. The compliance problem doesn't exist instead of being solved.
Seedfast is built for teams that can't use production data — by regulation, policy, or practicality. Fintech, healthcare, and anyone under GDPR, HIPAA, or SOC 2. Early-stage teams that don't have production data yet. Distributed teams where not every engineer is cleared for prod. Engineering teams of 5 to 50 that are too small for $200K enterprise TDM and too complex for a hand-written seed script. It's also a strong fit for any team with 20+ tables, frequent migrations, and a seed file that has quietly become tech debt nobody wants to own.
It runs as a Postgres-first CLI, anywhere you can run a binary.
Just run seedfast seed !
