People-first data and AI transformation

Where People
and Data Meet

We help leaders turn data and AI ambition into clear decisions, accountable operating practices, and implementation-ready action.

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Practical support for public-sector and enterprise teams navigating governance, readiness, adoption, and accountability.

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Start with the problem

Transformation stalls when accountability is unclear.

Datum Café connects governance, people, process, and implementation so progress does not depend on a single champion, or disappear when priorities change.

Data & AI governance

Clarify decision rights, accountability, stewardship, risk, and responsible use.

Build the operating model

Data talent & teams

Align roles, capabilities, leadership expectations, and workforce readiness.

Strengthen the team

Change & adoption

Move from policy and presentation to sustained behaviors and ways of working.

Support adoption

Knowledge retention

Protect institutional knowledge and reduce dependency on individual experts.

Retain what matters

Information risk

Connect privacy, security, compliance, identity, and lifecycle controls.

Reduce exposure

Ways to work with us

Choose the level of support your team needs.

Begin with a practical tool, bring the team together in a workshop, or engage Datum Café to assess and implement the path forward.

Solution products

Implementation-ready tools

Structured frameworks, templates, facilitation materials, and practitioner guidance your team can put to work.

Starting at $4,500

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Workshops

Focused working sessions

Bring leaders and practitioners together to build shared understanding, make decisions, and create momentum.

Starting at $4,500

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Advisory

Assessment through implementation

Targeted assessments, operating-model design, roadmaps, governance activation, and ongoing advisory support.

Scoped to your organization

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For government leaders

Advance AI without outrunning governance.

The Government AI Readiness & Governance Accelerator helps public-sector leaders translate policy, risk, data readiness, workforce needs, and implementation responsibilities into a practical 90-day path.

Readiness and governance assessment
Leadership alignment and decision clarity
Prioritized roadmap and implementation support

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Practical resources

Understand the next decision before you invest.

Use a focused assessment or workbook to surface risk, align stakeholders, and identify the right next step.

Government

AI Readiness Checklist

A practical starting point for leaders evaluating governance, workforce, data, and implementation readiness.

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Executive assessment

Critical Data Executive Assessment

Test whether the data your organization depends on has clear ownership, priority, and risk controls.

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AI initiatives

AI Project Readiness Scorecard

Evaluate whether a proposed initiative has the governance, data, sponsorship, and operating readiness to proceed.

Score the initiative

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The Datum Café approach

People-first. Practice-led. Technology-enabled.

Tools do not create accountability, alignment, or adoption on their own. Datum Café helps organizations establish the human and operating foundations required to use data and AI responsibly and effectively.

About Datum Café

“Datum Café transforms complex concepts into visually engaging, interactive, and easy-to-consume content.”
Keyur Desai · Chief Data Officer and former CDO, TD Ameritrade