Why Data Strategy Comes Before AI Strategy

Any AI strategy will fail unless your company has its data in order

Recently, I was chatting with a Director of Engineering overseeing generative AI platforms at a Fortune 500 company - and I asked him what keeps him up at night.

He said, “we are building these LLM-powered prototypes right now, but our data infrastructure isn’t ready for production LLM apps.”

And he’s right.

Generative AI use cases (RAG, finetuning, etc…