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title: "Your Data Is a Mess. Start Your AI Project Anyway."
subtitle: "Bake data cleanup into your AI rollout instead of delaying launch."
author: "Kerrigan Baron"
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date_published: "2026-06-12T18:29:09.581+00:00"
date_modified: "2026-06-12T18:29:09.651356+00:00"
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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._

🔥 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](https://fidgetlabs.io/focal-point/inherited-data-ai-cleanup)

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