“Our data is everywhere, and nobody trusts the numbers.”
Most agencies do not have a data shortage. They have a trust problem: the same number comes out differently depending on who pulled it. We fix the plumbing underneath, then build the reporting on top of it.
What it looks like
Records sit across legacy systems, departments, and spreadsheets, so every report starts with a week of manual reconciliation.
Every report is a project
A single KPI means exporting from three systems and reconciling in a spreadsheet, so reporting happens quarterly when it should happen daily.
Two departments, two answers
Definitions drift between departments, and a budget hearing turns into a debate about whose number is right.
Systems nobody wants to touch
Core records live on aging platforms understood by a handful of people, and every migration plan stalls on risk.
If any of that sounds familiar, here is how we take it apart.
How we solve it
One governed data platform on AWS GovCloud or Azure Government, with dashboards leadership can defend in a budget hearing.
Inventory and prioritize
Map systems, owners, and the reports leadership actually uses, then pick the one decision where better data pays off first.
Build the governed platform
Pipelines from source systems into a data platform in your cloud tenancy, with an agreed definition for every metric.
Put it in front of decision-makers
Dashboards built around the questions asked in budget hearings and council meetings, every figure traceable to its source.
Extend department by department
Add permitting, public safety, or finance in phases, without re-platforming each time.
Data governance in this work
Public data carries public obligations.
- A data catalogue with a named owner and a written definition for every metric.
- Role-based access aligned to your records-retention and privacy rules.
- Lineage from every dashboard figure back to its source system, ready for a public records request.
What you get
- A governed data platform in your own cloud tenancy
- Metric definitions agreed across departments
- Leadership dashboards with traceable figures
- Runbooks and training so your staff run the refresh
Knowing the approach is half of it. Here is how it gets into production.
Phase by phase, with a gate at each one
Each gate is agreed before its phase begins, so nothing moves forward on optimism.
Assess
Inventory systems and reports; choose the first decision to support.
Gate: First decision and its metrics agreedPilot
One department’s data, end to end, from source to dashboard.
Gate: Numbers reconcile with the sourceDeploy
Dashboards rolled out to leadership, with staff trained alongside.
Gate: Staff running the refresh themselvesExtend
The next department joins the same platform and definitions.
Gate: Ongoing
How it runs
Runs in your own cloud tenancy (AWS GovCloud or Azure Government), under your keys and within your procurement rules.
Go deeper
Tell us which number you most need everyone to agree on.
We will trace where it comes from today and show you what it takes to make it trustworthy.