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Find out what you actually have.

Two to three weeks, fixed price. At the end you have a defensible picture of your data estate and a costed plan for the next six months — and no obligation to run it with us.

The point of it

Almost every expensive data mistake is made before the work starts.

The platform bought to solve an undefined problem. The eighteen-month roadmap sequenced against an inventory that was already wrong. The governance framework approved by a committee with no authority to enforce it. Each one is a decision taken confidently, on incomplete information, by people acting in good faith.

The assessment exists to make those decisions on evidence instead. It's deliberately short and deliberately fixed-price, because discovery that expands to fill a budget stops being discovery.

What we actually do

We interview the people who use and maintain the data — typically eight to twelve, across business and IT. We walk through each material system with whoever knows it best. Then, critically, we profile real extracts, because the gap between what people believe about their data and what the data says is usually the most valuable finding in the report.

We score maturity per data domain rather than producing one organisational number, since customer, product, asset and finance data are almost never in the same condition, and the order you fix them in is a genuine strategic choice.

How it ends

A working session where we walk your leadership through what we found — including anything uncomfortable — followed by the written deliverables. If the honest recommendation is that you don't need a six-month program, that's the recommendation you'll get. It has happened.

Engagement

Duration: 2–3 weeks
Price: Fixed fee
Your time: ~1 hr × 8–12 people
Access needed: Read-only extracts
Output: Map, gaps, costed plan
Obligation: None

Profiling runs inside your environment wherever that's possible. Where extracts are necessary, we agree scope in writing, work from the minimum viable sample, host in Australian regions, and destroy them at closeout with written confirmation.

Deliverables

Six things land on your desk.

All of it is yours to keep and to hand to anyone — us, your internal team, or another firm entirely.

System inventoryEvery system holding material data, what it holds, who maintains it, and how current the entry is.
Ownership mapA named person accountable for each data domain — with the gaps where no such person exists made explicit.
Domain modelThe data domains that matter to your business and how they relate, in language your business actually uses.

Maturity scoringEach domain scored Unknown, Mapped, Owned or Governed, with the evidence behind each score.
Ranked gap registerEvery gap found, ordered by cost of inaction rather than ease of fixing — with the quick wins flagged separately.
Costed six-month planA sequenced, priced, month-by-month plan you could hand to any capable delivery partner.

Detail

Worth knowing before you buy.

What if you find our current program is aimed at the wrong problem?+

Then the report says so, with the evidence, plus an assessment of what's salvageable — which is rarely nothing. A program stopped in month four costs a fraction of the same program abandoned in month twenty.

Is this a sales process for a bigger engagement?+

It's a fixed-fee piece of work that stands on its own, and the deliverables are written so another firm could execute the plan without us. We'd obviously like to run it — but a plan you can only execute with the people who wrote it isn't a plan, it's a hostage situation.

Do you need production access?+

No. Read access to representative extracts is enough, and profiling in your own environment is our preference. We'll work to whatever your security team will approve, and we'll tell you honestly if the restrictions leave a blind spot in the findings.

What if we already had an assessment done?+

Send it through. If it's recent and sound, we'll say so and skip straight to the plan — that's a smaller, cheaper engagement. The common problem isn't that the previous assessment was wrong; it's that it was a snapshot and nothing has kept it current.

Does it have to be delivered in your platform?+

No. We use TellParrot by default because it keeps the assessment current after we leave. If you own Purview, Collibra or Alation, we'll deliver into yours for the same fixed fee.

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Tell us roughly what you're dealing with and we'll come back with scope, price and the earliest start date.

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