Category Data

Data as infrastructure, governance, and asset. Lifecycle, lineage, training, RAG, retrieval, and the librarian discipline that ties them together.

Your Slack Workspace Trained Your Replacement

Defunct startups are selling Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads to AI labs for six figures. The privacy outrage and gold rush takes are missing the actual story: this is a data lifecycle failure infrastructure veterans solved 30 years ago, in a tier the SaaS vendors quietly excused themselves from governing.