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Data
You Can
Actually Trust.

Clean inputs. Governed schemas. One source of truth. The plumbing every other ops investment depends on, built right the first time.

For MOps · Data teams · Heads of Analytics
Drives Quality · Governance · Trust across GTM teams
Engagement From 8 weeks · Audit → Build → Operate
Outcome Numbers every team agrees on, every quarter
PlatformsSnowflakeHightouchCensusSFDCMarketodbt
What this service is

Data is the work. Treat it like infrastructure.

We design the schemas, fix the duplicates, govern the inputs, and instrument the dashboards. Every dollar spent on automation, scoring, or routing rests on whether the underlying data is clean, complete, and trusted. We make sure it is.

Covers
✓01Schema Design
✓02Data Hygiene
✓03Dedupe & Match
✓04Enrichment
✓05Governance & SLAs
✓06Integrations / ETL
✓07Reporting Models
✓08Privacy & Compliance
Field Note · No.04

Every dashboard, every model, every campaign rests on the same foundation. If the data is broken, everything above it is theatre.

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Six-dimension scorecard

Score your data the way auditors would.

Every engagement starts with this rubric: completeness, accuracy, consistency, timeliness, uniqueness, validity. Toggle a starting profile to see what each looks like in the wild.

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D+
Typical mid-market CRM

You're flying half-blind.

Records exist but you can't trust them. Reps work around the system. Reporting requires a human in the loop.

How a typical engagement runs

From kickoff to live in a quarter or less.

Five phases. Five working agreements. Each one ends with something live, measurable, and handed back to your team.

01
Wk 1–3

Audit

Map every system, every field, every flow. Find the drift, dedupes, orphans.

02
Wk 4–6

Model

Schema design, entity ownership, naming conventions, data contracts.

03
Wk 7–10

Govern

Build dedupe, validation, enrichment, and consent pipelines. Govern at write.

04
Wk 11–12

Migrate

Cutover live data to governed schemas. Hold-out validation.

05
Ongoing

Operate

SLAs for freshness. Quarterly reviews. The data layer becomes a product.

You should know

Five symptoms.
Five fixes. Side by side.

The left column is what we walk into on Data Management. The right is what we ship: same operating surface, cleaner ownership, and fewer manual workarounds.

Today · inconsistent and manual
After · governed and observable
  1. 01
    Today

    Schema Drift

    Custom fields multiply. Naming conventions disagree. Two systems use "customer_id" to mean different things. Every integration becomes a 3-week negotiation.

    →
    After

    Governed Schemas

    Every entity, every field, owned and documented. Changes route through review. New systems plug in without surprise.

  2. 02
    Today

    Duplicate Records

    Same person, four times, four spellings.

    →
    After

    Match & Merge

    Fuzzy matching, golden records, ongoing dedupe.

  3. 03
    Today

    Stale Records

    Job titles from 2019. Emails that bounce.

    →
    After

    Continuous Enrichment

    Records refreshed on a cadence, not on demand.

  4. 04
    Today

    Privacy Debt

    Consent flags that nobody can produce on demand.

    →
    After

    Audit-Ready

    Consent, retention, and processing logged from day one.

  5. 05
    Today

    Disagreeing Dashboards

    Marketing's pipeline number doesn't match sales's. Finance's revenue number doesn't match the CRM's. Every weekly meeting opens with thirty minutes reconciling figures nobody trusts.

    →
    After

    One Source of Truth

    Shared definitions, modeled metrics, governed dashboards. Marketing, sales, finance, and product all read the same number, and meetings start with decisions, not reconciliation.

Recognize three or more? Book the 10-minute intro call →

What this actually entails.

Four core capabilities, working as one system. Hover any column, meet the specialist who runs it.

Phase 01 · Audit
  • Field mapping
  • Drift detection
  • Orphan discovery
01

Audit & Map

Map every system, every field, every flow. Find the duplicates, the orphans, the silent drift. The audit produces a single picture of where data lives and where it is broken.

DeliverableField-level data map
Phase 02 · Model
  • Schema design
  • Owner matrix
  • Data contracts
02

Model & Govern

Schema design, owners assigned, naming conventions agreed. We define what every entity is and is not, then put guardrails up so it stays that way next quarter.

DeliverableSchema + ownership matrix
Phase 03 · Clean
  • Fuzzy dedupe
  • Enrichment
  • Validation rules
03

Clean & Enrich

Dedupe, normalize, enrich, and validate on a cadence. Records get refreshed automatically, not when somebody finally complains. The database stops decaying.

DeliverableEnrichment + dedupe pipelines
Phase 04 · Operate
  • Modeled metrics
  • Freshness SLAs
  • Quarterly review
04

Operate & Report

Dashboards on top of modeled metrics. SLAs for data freshness. Quarterly reviews. The data layer becomes a product the company depends on, not a problem the team avoids.

DeliverableModeled dashboards + SLAs

Four phases · One foundation · zero drift

Common questions

Questions we hear every week.

If you don't see yours here, the easiest way to get an answer is to ask. We don't gate calls.

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Almost never. The work is on the schema, governance, and pipeline layers, your CRM keeps doing what it does, just on top of clean foundations.

We migrate it. Cleanup, dedupe, normalize, enrich, and validate against a hold-out sample before the cutover. Historical reporting stays continuous.

Your data team. We document, hand off, and train. If you don't have a data team, we stay on retainer as the operator until you do.

Consent flags, retention timers, processing logs, and deletion pipelines built in from day one, not patched later. Audit-ready by default.

Yes, a CDP is downstream of governance. We make sure the data flowing into it is trustworthy first; otherwise the CDP just industrializes the mess.

Pairs well with

Services that strengthen this build.

Most engagements pull in one or two adjacent services. Use these when the build needs cleaner data, sharper routing, or a broader operating model.

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01 / StrategyPairs well

Martech Strategy

Frame the bet, platform mix, operating model, and roadmap before the build queue.

  • Stack audit
  • Roadmap
  • TCO model
→
02 / AgentsPairs well

Agentic Engineering

Production agents with tools, evals, guardrails, observability, and human handoff.

  • Tools
  • Evals
  • Guardrails
→
03 / LeadsPairs well

Lead Management

Capture, dedupe, score, route, and nurture without leaks between marketing and sales.

  • Scoring
  • Routing
  • SLA
→
04 / ProgramsPairs well

Marketing Automation

Behavior-triggered programs that ship at scale across lifecycle, nurture, and expansion.

  • Lifecycle
  • Triggers
  • Reporting
→
05 / DataCurrent

Data Management

Schemas, cleanup, enrichment, quality monitoring, and governance.

  • Schemas
  • Sync
  • Governance
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06 / WorkflowsPairs well

Workflow Automation

Integrations and back-office workflows that remove manual handoffs.

  • Triggers
  • Routing
  • Audit
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Build the foundation once. Trust it forever.

Every dashboard, every model, every campaign you'll ever run depends on the same data layer. Get it right once and stop paying interest on it every quarter.

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99%
dedupe match rate on enriched contact tables
24 hr
data freshness SLA, measured, not promised
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source of truth shared across every team
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quality dimensions audited every quarter: completeness, accuracy, more
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