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  1. Issue · Sep 10, 2026

    The €2.4M Slide That Got Rejected in 4 Minutes (opens the original)

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    A few months ago, I was reviewing a governance business case with a data team at an enterprise client.They had done the hard work. They spent three weeks tracing critical data pipelines, identifying unowned customer tables, and modeling regulatory risk across their European operations.The diagnostic had a very specific finding: €2.4 million in direct operational and compliance exposure, backed by transaction volume and historical audit samples.It was airtight. It was grounded. And it made a clea

  2. Issue · Jul 20, 2026

    Five signals I keep looking for on discovery calls (opens the original)

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    I don’t know how many discovery calls I’ve run in the last year, quite a few. But the same thing happens more or less every time. Usually within the first five minutes, sometimes the first thirty seconds to be honest, I already have a pretty clear picture of whether your governance program actually works or not.And most of the time it doesn’t. Which is not really a criticism, it’s just super common.It has nothing to do with how much documentation you have, your tooling stack, which framework you

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