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Your Data Is a Mess. Start Your AI Project Anyway.

Bake data cleanup into your AI rollout instead of delaying launch.

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🔥 Hot Take: Your data is a mess, do your AI project anyways!!

Don't hold back your AI project because of your data. Bake the cleanup into your AI roll-out! We've all got inherited data we need to clean up. The thing is if you go down the traditional ways of thinking then you spend months doing a cleanup task before ever touching AI. This is slow, costly, and a losing battle in the race for AI.

Instead:

  • Let AI do the sorting: It's got the power, use it.
  • Use a clean container strategy: Filter without compromising the source.
  • Let your AI agents talk to each other: Build together for the future.
  • Build a data lake: Or data warehouse, knowledge base, whatever...
  • Give yourself permission to iterate: It's okay to change strategy.

Learn all of this and hear more about my experiences in the latest Focal Point blog: https://fidgetlabs.io/focal-point/inherited-data-ai-cleanup

#AI #DataStrategy #Composable #MACH Fidget Labs

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Baron, K. (2026, June 12). Your Data Is a Mess. Start Your AI Project Anyway.. Markwright. https://markwright.app/feed/your-data-is-a-mess-start-your-ai-project-anyway

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Baron, Kerrigan. "Your Data Is a Mess. Start Your AI Project Anyway.." Markwright, 12 June 2026, https://markwright.app/feed/your-data-is-a-mess-start-your-ai-project-anyway.

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