Digital Advisory · Data Governance Quick Start

One domain. Two trusted data products. Three months.

In 90 days, we build two trusted AI Data Products with your team and leave you with the capability to build the next ten.

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Domain, with named stewards and a leader who owns the outcome.

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Data products, packaged end to end and ready for AI.

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Months, from scope to certified and published.

What we hear

Sound familiar?

"We bought a catalog. I could not tell you if anyone opens it."

"Three teams rebuilt the same report because none of them found the first one."

"The one analyst who understands that table is leaving in March."

"The AI pilot stalled because we couldn't agree on what data readiness looks like."

None of these are tooling problems. All of them are what happens when nobody owns the answer.

Why governance initiatives stall

The inventory spiral.

A tool is only part of the solution. Treated as a quick fix, it gets ignored.

  1. 01

    Leadership buys a catalog.

  2. 02

    Stewards are asked to document everything.

  3. 03

    Documenting feels like a chore with no payoff.

  4. 04

    Coverage goes wide but stays shallow.

  5. 05

    Nobody gets what they need.

  6. 06

    And nobody opens it again.

Repeat
The reframe

It's not about cataloging. It's about building products.

A data product is a trusted, reusable asset built with purpose. Here is what makes data ready for AI.

Trusted

Quality rules, lineage, freshness.

Can I believe it?

Understood

Definitions, metrics, grain, synonyms, relationships.

What does it mean?

Explained

Caveats, known gotchas, decision rules, how people actually use it.

How do I act on this?

The Quick Start

AI-ready data products in three months.

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Domain

One domain, two to five teams, named stewards, and a leader who owns the outcome.

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Products

Packaged end to end: definitions, CDEs, quality, semantics, classification, access, and evals.

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Months

The catalog, the roles and the mechanisms get built because the products need them.

The marketplace, configured.

01

Discovery

Metadata standardized so people find and understand products relevant to them.

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Trust

Lineage verified source to surface, quality rules monitored, failures alert a named owner.

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Access

Classification applied, the request path linked, usage measured.

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AI context

Definitions, verified queries and evals, served through the catalog's chat.

Packaged to be scalable across domains.

How it runs

Scalable AI product capability.

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Scope

Domain and products selected. Roles named. Catalog connected and configured. Standards agreed and questions captured.

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Curate

Stewards trained and documenting. Definitions ratified, CDEs profiled, quality rules live, evals tuned. Products assembled in the marketplace.

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Launch

Products certified and published with an AI scorecard. Consumers trained, readout and roadmap created. You take ownership.

We don't do the reps for you. We run them with you so your team knows what good feels like.

What a data product is

Ready means all eight pass.

A product is ready when all eight components pass with confidence. Your program is ready when it's easy to meet the expectations for each one. Tap each one your best data product can claim today.

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Most teams pass a few. The gaps are where the Quick Start begins.

Platform and operating model

Your catalog connects the stack. The Archetype Operating Model keeps it trusted.

Whichever data intelligence platform you run, it should know what you have, trace where it came from, and put definitions and policies next to the data. Archetype supplies the roles, rules, and rhythm around it to keep the outcomes reliable.

Sources
  • Enterprise warehouse
  • ERP and finance
  • CRM and operations
  • Files, APIs, pipelines
Your catalog

One place for what you know

  • Catalog
  • Lineage
  • Glossary
  • Policies
  • Data quality
  • AI agents

Centralized knowledge, available everywhere.

Consumers
  • BI and reporting
  • Analysts and science
  • AI and agents
  • Compliance and audit
Archetype Operating ModelRoles · Policy · Standards · Training · KPIs
Stewardship program

Owners, workflows, cadence.

Standards

Metadata, domains, tagging.

Enablement

Training, playbooks, comms.

Measurement

Adoption KPIs, roadmap.

Proof it works

Where we've done this.

State banking regulator

Examiner AI on a governed semantic layer, with no PII exposure.

Health insurance marketplace

Analyst AI agent live in 6 weeks, recovering 80 hours a month.

National online retailer

Governed metric thread live on Snowflake, deployed as code.

Major hospital system

Catalog stood up from scratch, with operating model and charter.

What you're left with

A second domain cheaper than the first.

Without
With Archetype
A catalog nobody opens
Two products people actually use
Documentation that answers no question
A documentation bar that holds
Stewardship in name only
Stewards who know how to steward
Starting over every time
A second domain cheaper than the first
Five questions to get started

Start on the right foot.

These five questions alone can get you started. Bring your answers to the call.

  1. 1What data gets the most questions?
  2. 2How much trust do you need in the answer?
  3. 3What happens if the answer is wrong?
  4. 4Who owns the answer when it is wrong?
  5. 5Does everyone agree what "good" looks like?
Next step

Book a 30 minute call.

Faster value. Stronger adoption. Lasting impact. Pick one domain and we'll walk through what your first two products look like.

AHAdam Hallas

Adam Hallas

Director, Digital Advisory

636.248.2155 · ahallas@archetypeconsulting.com

GDGreg DiLullo

Greg DiLullo

Data Governance Lead

860.389.7261

OCOliver Courtney

Oliver Courtney

SVP of Digital Advisory

617.952.9491

HPHalley Peddle

Halley Peddle

Analytics Business Development

508.455.7895

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Leaders do not just need answers. They need outcomes.

At Archetype, forward is not just a direction. It is a decision. We partner with leaders who are ready to move, with precision, with speed, and with purpose. We build with you, not at you.

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