AI Results Built on Governed Data
We make enterprise data AI-ready. We bring deep experience in data governance, and we apply it to build the ontologies, semantic layers, and data products that AI depends on.
AI Agents Don’t Know What You Know
When we read a description of a data element, we bring everything we know about its context. AI agents don’t have that context unless we provide it. An agent doesn’t know that by “customer” you mean the distributor, not the consumer. And when we don’t understand something, we ask, or admit we don’t know. But AI agents make assumptions, which may be wrong or simply hallucinations. If we are going to rely on AI agents, we need to give them the context that now lives in tribal knowledge and in the heads of subject matter experts.
Extending Data Governance for AI
AI agents create new opportunities, but also place new burdens on data governance. Natural-language queries require ontologies and knowledge graphs that capture business context and let agents navigate the metadata repository. Semantic layers and data products become more important to bridge the gap between business meaning and physical data.
Our foundation has long been helping clients launch and mature data governance programs that deliver tangible business value. This begins with clear business objectives sponsored by executive leadership. Policies, processes, and an operating model tailored to your organization then turn those objectives into high-value use cases. The result is business value from data governance and AI, not slide decks and metadata no one looks at.
Our Experience
Our Principal and CEO, Robert Gifford, has many years’ consulting experience in strategy, process design, and data architecture, including 15 years specializing in data governance. He has led projects in metadata management, data quality, and federated operating models in the consumer products, financial services, and healthcare industries, among others. Most recently, he has led projects to automate the generation of semantic metadata with AI, design enterprise metadata ontologies, and deliver enterprise semantic layers.
We work directly with enterprise data governance leaders, and as specialists with our partner consulting firms.