Data Quality as a Service

Improving Confidence in Every Decision

Data quality is the difference between decisions made with confidence and decisions made in doubt. Thornevale Group helps leaders establish the rules, accountability, and monitoring that keep critical information accurate, complete, and trustworthy.

Overview

A strategic capability, not a compliance exercise.

Data quality is not a one-time cleanup. It is an ongoing discipline that ensures the information driving reporting, analytics, compliance, and AI remains fit for purpose. When quality is governed, leaders stop reconciling and start acting.

We help organizations define what "good" means for their most critical data, measure where they stand, and resolve issues at the source. The outcome is measurable improvement in confidence, efficiency, and regulatory readiness — sustained over time, not just for a single report.

Sound Familiar?

The signs of governance strain.

If these challenges resonate, you are not alone — and you are closer to a solution than you think.

  • Dashboards show different numbers for the same metric.
  • Data issues are reported but never actually resolved.
  • No one can say which data elements are critical to quality.
  • Month-end and reporting cycles are consumed by reconciliation.
  • Data quality is measured reactively, only after a problem surfaces.
  • Audits and migrations expose gaps that were ignored for years.
  • AI and analytics are being built on unverified data.
  • There is no agreed definition of what "quality" means for key data.
  • Quality issues recur because root causes are never addressed.
  • Leadership has no visibility into data quality trends or risk.

Key Challenges We Solve

Four executive-level challenge areas.

Unresolved Issues

The Problem

Data defects are logged but sit unresolved because no one owns them or prioritizes them.

Business Impact

Problems accumulate, trust erodes, and reporting becomes unreliable.

Why It's Urgent

Each unresolved issue compounds, making eventual remediation more expensive.

No Quality Standards

The Problem

There is no agreed definition of what constitutes acceptable quality for critical data.

Business Impact

Teams argue about whether data is "good enough" instead of acting on it.

Why It's Urgent

Without standards, quality cannot be measured, managed, or improved.

Reactive Detection

The Problem

Quality problems are discovered late — during audits, migrations, or reporting cycles.

Business Impact

Remediation is rushed, costly, and disruptive to operations.

Why It's Urgent

Late detection turns manageable issues into executive escalations.

Symptom, Not Root Cause

The Problem

Teams fix data errors at the surface without tracing them to their source.

Business Impact

The same defects recur, eroding confidence and wasting effort.

Why It's Urgent

Without root-cause resolution, quality never sustainably improves.

What We Deliver

Executive consulting, not implementation overhead.

We focus on strategy, operating models, risk reduction, accountability, executive visibility, and business outcomes — delivered by senior practitioners.

Quality Strategy & Standards

Defined quality dimensions, rules, and thresholds for the data that matters most to the business.

Critical Data Prioritization

Focus on the data elements whose quality most affects decisions, compliance, and operations.

Issue Triage & Root-Cause Resolution

A disciplined process to log, prioritize, trace, and resolve issues at the source.

Monitoring & Scorecards

Ongoing measurement that gives leadership an objective view of quality trends and risk.

Accountability Framework

Clear ownership so every critical data element has someone responsible for its quality.

Executive Visibility

Reporting that translates quality into business risk and confidence for leadership.

Deliverables

What you receive

  • Data quality strategy and standards framework
  • Critical Data Element register with quality rules and thresholds
  • Baseline quality assessment and prioritized issue list
  • Issue triage and root-cause resolution process
  • Data quality scorecard and trend reporting
  • Accountability model with owners and stewards
  • Monitoring and alerting framework
  • Executive quality and risk summary

Outcomes You'll Achieve

What changes for your organization

  • Reduced Risk

    Critical data is monitored and issues are resolved before they become findings or failures.

  • Improved Confidence

    Leaders trust the numbers behind reporting, analytics, and decisions.

  • Increased Accountability

    Every critical data element has an owner accountable for its quality.

  • Better Decision-Making

    Reliable, consistent information removes doubt from strategic and operational choices.

  • Regulatory Readiness

    Documented quality controls and evidence ready for audits and compliance.

  • Operational Efficiency

    Less time reconciling, more time acting — quality becomes a sustained advantage.

Founding client offer: 20% off the Sprint and Enterprise tiers of any service, or the first 6 months of a Stewardship plan, for the first 5 clients who sign by December 31, 2026, in exchange for a testimonial or case study.

PACKAGES & PRICING

Find what's broken, fix it once, keep it fixed

Start with one dataset, or put rules in place across your critical data. Every package includes profiling for completeness, validity, uniqueness, consistency and timeliness, issues ranked by business impact, named issue owners, and an executive readout.

DQ Scan

$4,500

A fast, honest read on one dataset.

  • 1 dataset profiled across 5 quality dimensions
  • Top 10 issues ranked by business impact
  • 1-page quality scorecard
  • Delivered in 10 business days
  • Paid in full at signing
  • Fee credited toward the Sprint if you upgrade within 30 days
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DQ Sprint

$9,500

Founding client price: $7,600

Root causes, not just symptoms.

  • Up to 3 datasets
  • Root-cause analysis on the top issues
  • Cross-dataset reconciliation
  • Remediation plan with named owners
  • Delivered in 3 weeks
  • 50% at signing, 50% on delivery
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DQ Enterprise

$16,500

Founding client price: $13,200

Rules built, monitored and owned.

  • Up to 5 datasets
  • Everything in the Sprint
  • Up to 25 DQ rules built in your tool (Purview, Informatica, Collibra, Snowflake or SQL)
  • Baseline quality dashboard
  • Delivered in 5 weeks
  • 50% at signing, 50% on delivery
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DQ Monitoring Retainer

From $4,500/month

Catch issues before your reports do.

  • Up to 20 hours a month
  • Monthly rule runs and quality scorecard
  • Issue triage and root-cause support
  • Rule tuning as your data changes
  • Month to month, cancel anytime
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Guarantee: Every rule we build runs in your tool at handoff. If one fails within 30 days, we fix it at no cost, provided source access stays as scoped. Larger or multi-year programs are quoted separately.

Executive Action

Governance Problems Compound. They Rarely Resolve Themselves.

Today's governance challenges become tomorrow's:

  • Audit findings
  • Regulatory scrutiny
  • Transformation delays
  • Reporting failures
  • Data quality incidents
  • Executive escalations

The longer governance gaps remain unresolved, the more costly they become to address. Thornevale Group helps executive leaders identify, prioritize, and resolve governance challenges before they impact organizational performance, regulatory readiness, or strategic initiatives.

Start a Data Trust Quick-Start

Gain immediate visibility into:

  • Governance maturity gaps
  • Critical data gaps
  • Data quality vulnerabilities
  • Stewardship accountability issues
  • Compliance weaknesses
  • Enterprise risk exposure