Fixed-fee diagnostic · 2 to 4 weeks
Find out why your numbers don't reconcile.
A fixed-fee diagnostic of the root cause behind the close that won't tie out, the audit finding, or the customer count that disagrees across systems. You get the cause, what it costs, and a sequenced plan to fix it.
01 / The pain everyone sees
Data quality is the symptom. The cause is upstream.
Teams reconcile by hand every month. An audit finding can't be traced to source. Margin by customer depends on which report you open. Another dashboard won't fix it, because the problem sits in what feeds the dashboard.
Underneath, the causes repeat: records that disagree across systems, duplicates, weak classification and lineage, and quality rules that exist as policy but not as a daily mechanism.
02 / What we look at
How your data is created, changed and used.
In scope
- The records behind the symptom.
- The processes that create and change them.
- The quality rules and who owns them.
- The business impact in your own metrics.
Out of scope
Remediation itself, which we quote at the end, and tool selection before the cause is known.
03 / How it runs
From the symptom to a priced plan.
Scoping call · 30 minutes
We agree the symptom and the systems.
Diagnostic · 2 to 4 weeks · Fixed fee
Profiling, root cause and impact on your records.
Plan
A sequenced remediation plan with effort and cost, and a fixed-fee quote for the first phase.
04 / What you get
The cause, the cost and the plan.
- The root cause, traced to source.
- Business impact in your metrics.
- Data quality rules with proposed owners.
- A sequenced plan with effort and cost.
- A phase-one quote.
Who runs it.
A senior data quality lead runs the diagnostic, with a master data architect, because most quality problems turn out to be records that disagree across systems. The same senior people scope the work and do it.
- Operating models
- Production-grade data quality and stewardship operating models.
- Rule design
- Quality rules built into master data workflows, so errors are caught at entry.
Questions
Our audit firm's advisory team offered to look at this.
Ask whether independence rules let your auditor implement the fix. We can deliver the master data piece beside them or under them.
Is this just data cleansing?
No. Cleansing without fixing the process brings the errors back within weeks. We find where bad records enter and who owns stopping them.
Will you recommend a tool?
Only if you need one. Many fixes are rules, ownership and a process change.
Which number can't you defend?
Bring it to a 30-minute call. We'll tell you where we'd look first.