AI & Data
The data foundation every enterprise AI program skips
Jun 2026 · 9 min
Enterprises rarely skip the data foundation on purpose — it just loses to a more visible deadline. The result is an AI program layered on top of inconsistent schemas, undocumented transformations, and data no one can fully trust.
The fix isn't a multi-year data warehouse overhaul. It's scoping a foundation to exactly what the first three AI use cases need, documenting it rigorously, and expanding only as new use cases demand it.
