15/05/2026
Did you audit whether your data was actually built for a machine to navigate — without hand-holding?
The models are selected. The use cases are scoped. The board has been updated. The budget is spent.
What didn't happen: anyone checked the data underneath.
Not because it doesn't exist. Because it was never structured for discoverability. Siloed sources, undocumented schemas, access controls bolted on after the fact. These aren't edge cases. They're the norm.
We've seen it across dozens of enterprise environments. The investment gets approved. Then someone goes looking for the data to power it and finds a swamp.
Thursday, May 28 at 5pm at TECH WEEK by a16z, we're running two focused talks as part of Boston Tech Week — hosted by VirtusLab, with technology leaders from organizations including ZoomInfo in the room.
If you're a founder, CTO, data architect, or the person who actually owns this problem inside your organization, this is the conversation that doesn't happen at vendor events.
No pitches. Just the real picture. Get on the list now: https://hubs.ly/Q04fMqBW0