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Rebuild Data Trust

Rebuild Data Trust
Before You Build AI

Your team doesn’t need more dashboards. They need to believe the data behind them.

Conflicting reports, duplicate numbers, low model accuracy, shadow reporting. Does this sound familiar?

The truth is, AI can’t succeed on shaky data foundations. Business leaders today are pulling back, not because they doubt AI’s potential, but because they don’t trust the data that fuels it.

That’s where we come in.

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Our Solution:
AI Value Validation &
Data Trust Roadmaps

Before you invest in any AI or
GenAI build, we help you answer:

  1. Is my data trustworthy enough to drive results?
  2. Which AI use cases make sense for us today?
  3. How do we build momentum without the risk?
Through a 5-phase engagement, we audit your data, validate use cases, build prototypes, and deliver a clear, quantifiable roadmap that connects your AI ambition with execution-ready confidence.
AI value validation

What You Get

Actionable Deliverables

No vague assessments or shelf-ware reports. We deliver prototypes, trust scorecards, and issue dashboards fast.

Strategy-to-Execution Bridge

We reduce uncertainty between leadership goals and technical feasibility so you’re not throwing darts in the dark.

Tailored to Your Stack, People, and Priorities

Whether you’re cleaning up customer data or scaling governance enterprise-wide, we customize our playbook to your context.

Why It Matters

FROM

Conflicting numbers from multiple reports

TO

Single source of truth everyone agrees on

FROM

Hesitant decision-making

TO

Confident, data-driven leadership

FROM

Ad hoc, manual reporting

TO

Governed, reusable insights

FROM

Low AI/ML effectiveness

TO

Trusted, clean training data powering real results

Sphere’s 5-Phase Data Trust Roadmap

Phase 1: Discovery & Assessment (Weeks 1–4)

Goals:

  • Understand root causes of distrust
  • Identify priority data domains

Actions:

  • Conduct stakeholder interviews (IT, business, analytics users)
  • Perform data audits on key systems (CRM, ERP, data warehouse)
  • Inventory critical reports/dashboards and inconsistencies
  • Identify data silos and duplicated sources

Deliverables:

  • Data trust baseline report
  • Prioritized data domains (e.g., Customer, Revenue, Ops)

Phase 2: Governance Foundation (Weeks 5–8)

Goals:

  • Set accountability and guardrails

Actions:

  • Appoint Data Stewards and Data Owners for each domain
  • Define policies (naming conventions, ownership, data usage)
  • Create a data glossary and business term dictionary
  • Document critical metrics and calculations

Tools:

  • Data Catalog (Alation, Collibra, Microsoft Purview)

Deliverables:

  • Operational governance framework
  • Business glossary and metric documentation

Phase 3: Data Quality & Lineage (Weeks 9–16)

Goals:

  • Increase transparency and accuracy

Actions:

  • Set up data quality KPIs: accuracy, freshness, completeness
  • Implement automated monitoring and validation rules
  • Map end-to-end data lineage for 1–2 priority domains
  • Set up alerts for broken pipelines or schema drifts

Tools:

  • Data Quality: Monte Carlo, Talend, Informatica
  • Lineage: Atlan, Purview, open-source tools (e.g., OpenLineage)

Deliverables:

  • Dashboards with real-time data trust signals
  • Lineage visualizations and issue tracking

Phase 4: Self-Service & Transparency (Weeks 17–24)

Goals:

  • Empower users and eliminate "shadow reporting"

Actions:

  • Enable governed self-service in Power BI / Tableau
  • Roll out data catalog access with descriptions, owners, ratings
  • Launch internal data literacy training
  • Publish data trust metrics (e.g., % of trusted data assets)

Deliverables:

  • Trusted reporting layer
  • Data portal with searchable, verified assets
  • Data Trust Scorecard for leadership

Phase 5: Scale & Sustain (Months 7–12)

Goals:

  • Extend governance and automation

Actions:

  • Add new domains (HR, Ops, Finance)
  • Conduct quarterly data trust reviews
  • Tie data quality to business SLAs or OKRs
  • Collect feedback and iterate on data platform features

Deliverables:

  • Enterprise-wide data trust operating model
  • Quarterly improvement plans and dashboards

Success Metrics

90%+

Critical data assets with owners

95%

Of reports certified in catalog

+30% vs. baseline

Data quality score improvement

-50% within 6 months

Reduction in data-related rework

8+/10 in internal surveys

User satisfaction w/ data access

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If you want to make AI real, start with data trust. Let’s build a foundation your teams believe in.

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Frequently Asked Questions

A Data Trust can be described as a level of confidence your organization has in its data – in accuracy, consistency, transparency, and governance. When data is trusted, teams can rely on it to make decisions, power analytics, and fuel AI systems without second-guessing numbers or manually verifying reports. You need a Data Trust Roadmap before implementing AI because even the most advanced models fail when built on bad data. Without clear ownership, quality controls, or lineage, AI outputs become unreliable and hard to explain, leading to wasted investment, low adoption, and increased risk. A roadmap helps you assess your current data state, fix what’s broken, and create a solid foundation so AI can deliver measurable, repeatable results.
Sphere performs a comprehensive audit across your systems, including CRM, ERP, and data warehouses. We assess data lineage, accuracy, governance, and consistency to establish a trust baseline and identify gaps. Our deliverables include trust scorecards, issue dashboards, and a clear roadmap to make your data AI-ready.
Our Data Trust and AI Readiness program is ideal for mid-sized to enterprise organizations that are exploring or piloting AI initiatives. It’s especially useful for firms struggling with siloed data, inconsistent reports, or failed AI/ML experiments due to poor data quality.
You’ll receive a comprehensive set of actionable deliverables, including: Data trust baseline and scorecards; Prototypes for validated AI use cases; Governance playbooks; Real-time dashboards; Trusted reporting layers; An enterprise-wide data trust operating model. No shelf-ware. Just execution-ready tools.
The full roadmap spans 6–12 months, depending on your organization’s size and complexity. The first results—like trust scorecards and prototype validation are typically delivered within the first 8–12 weeks.
Both. Our service bridges strategy and execution. We help you validate which AI use cases make sense for your current state and deliver working prototypes, alongside a solid data foundation and governance model that ensures long-term AI success.
We’re tool-agnostic but work with leading platforms for data quality (Monte Carlo, Talend), lineage (Atlan, Purview), catalogs (Collibra, Alation), and BI (Power BI, Tableau). We adapt our methods to your existing stack to avoid disruptions.
By improving data quality and aligning AI investments with validated use cases, companies reduce wasted spend, avoid failed pilots, and shorten time-to-value. Our clients typically see a 30%+ boost in data quality scores and up to 50% reduction in rework due to bad data.
Schedule a free consultation with our AI experts. We’ll discuss your current data state, business priorities, and AI goals—and recommend a tailored plan to move from uncertainty to action.

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