Simon Case

Global Head of Data and AI
Data & AI

June 24, 2026

Introducing: Your Data, Your AI – A Practical Guide to Data Quality for Enterprise GenAI

Many organisations we speak to are is somewhere on the same journey. They’ve run the GenAI pilots, or they’ve moved promising proofs of concept into production and then they’ve hit a similar wall: the technology works in principle, but the results are disappointing; either the chatbot gives wrong answers or the agent takes the wrong actions, and the promised business value evaporates.

More often than not, the root cause isn’t hallucination, but the data underneath.

That’s why we’ve written Your Data, Your AI: A Practical Guide to Data Quality for Enterprise GenAI — a free ebook for senior technology leaders who are serious about making GenAI work at scale.

Why data quality, and why now?

When a GenAI centred solution fails, it unfortunately isn’t entirely obvious at first glance. In fact, it looks rather confident and knowledgeable – it produces fluent, plausible-sounding outputs even when the results are built on shaky foundations. That makes poor data quality harder to spot than ever before, and far more dangerous when it goes undetected.

As GenAI moves rapidly from experimentation to production, data quality has become a defining challenge of enterprise adoption. The organisations pulling ahead aren’t necessarily those with the most sophisticated models or the biggest AI budgets, but the ones who have done the less glamorous work: governing their document corpora, assigning clear ownership, measuring quality continuously, and building a culture where data problems get surfaced rather than silently worked around.

This ebook is the practical guide to doing exactly that.

Who is the ebook for?

Your Data, Your AI is written primarily for senior technology leaders — CTOs, CDOs, and those responsible for scaling GenAI in their organisations. But it’s also highly relevant for:

  • Data teams managing pipelines and quality
  • Consultants advising clients on GenAI adoption
  • Finance and business leaders who need to understand the investment case for data quality

What’s inside?

Across seven chapters and a real-world experience report, the ebook covers everything you need to get your data ready for GenAI — and to keep it that way:

  • Introduction: Why data quality is the make-or-break factor for enterprise GenAI
  • Chapter 1: What exactly does ‘data quality’ mean in GenAI?
  • Chapter 2: The business risks of poor data quality for GenAI
  • Chapter 3: Fixing data quality for the GenAI era
  • Chapter 4: From reactive to proactive — how GenAI is transforming data quality outcomes
  • Experience report: Real-world lessons from the field
  • Chapter 5: The human element — culture, ownership and change
  • Chapter 6: Making the case for data quality investment in a GenAI world
  • Chapter 7: Five questions every tech leader should be able to answer about their data quality

There’s no hype or model comparisons in the guide. It’s practical guidance on the unglamorous, foundational work that makes AI actually deliver value.

Download the ebook

You can download Your Data, Your AI here.

We hope it’s a useful resource. If you have feedback — on the content, or on how we might expand it — we’d love to hear from you. And if your organisation is wrestling with data quality as part of a broader GenAI programme, get in touch. It’s exactly the kind of problem we help our clients solve.

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