Adaptive CanvasThe Enterprise Data Design & Governance Platform

Decision brief · five minutes

One version of the truth.
On the database you already own.

The problem

The same customer, product or supplier exists in six systems, six times, slightly differently. Every count is argued with. Every correction has to be made six times. Every audit answer is assembled by hand.

Why it isn’t fixed yet

Master data programmes fail on sponsorship, scope and integration politics — not on technology. Most organisations have already tried once.

What is different here

MDM Studio puts the programme layer — sponsorship, sequencing, stewardship, adoption — inside the product, and runs inside your perimeter on a database you already license and staff.

The decision in front of you

Approve one scoped working session on one domain. Bounded cost, no platform purchase, no integration commitment. Output is a defensible estimate for the full estate.

Product
MDM Studio v1.2.0

Date
August 2026

Detail
Business case & product briefing available separately

01 — The risk

Six ways these programmes die

Every one of these is a sponsorship or sequencing failure wearing a technical costume. If your last attempt stalled, it stalled on one of them.

An IT project with a business name

No named owner who can decide whose definition wins. The business rejects the golden record and keeps its own extract.

It boiled the ocean

Every domain in scope, modelling for months, first governed record after the sponsor has moved on.

The stewards never arrived

Stewardship added on top of a full-time job, with no queue and no evidence it matters. The exceptions report goes unread.

Integration became the project

Source system owners refuse writes. Six months are spent negotiating access instead of mastering anything.

Trust broke on one bad merge

Two customers wrongly combined, nobody can explain why, undoing it needs a ticket. From then on the hub is “the system’s view”.

Nobody could unwind it

Data in a proprietary store, cost rising on a metric you don’t control, leaving means a second migration.

02 — The answer

What we changed, and what to make us prove

Risk	What the product does about it	Make us show you
No real owner	A stakeholder register per domain — sponsor, owner, steward — with RACI, decision rights and stated concerns, held in the hub.	The named sponsor of a domain and what they can decide.
Wrong scope, wrong order	Domains scored on business criticality and plotted value-against-gap, so sequencing is a chart rather than a negotiation.	Which of your domains to master first, and why.
Stewardship doesn’t stick	Failed rules become owned, aged, SLA-tracked exceptions in a personal queue — not a weekly report.	One steward’s queue: what is overdue and who owns it.
Integration politics	Read-only by default. Writing back is opt-in per attribute, and can be handed to the source owner as a script they run themselves.	Master a domain with no write access to any source.
A bad merge	Every merge keeps its evidence. A steward can reverse one in a single governed, audited action.	Merge two records, split them back, show the audit trail.
Lock-in	Golden records sit in your own database. Configuration exports. A lapsed licence degrades to the free edition rather than locking you out.	Query your golden records in SQL without us.

03 — The commitment

What this does, and does not, commit you to

WHAT YOU PROVIDE

One VM and read access

The hub runs on SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL or Oracle — whichever you already run — beside the databases it masters, inside your perimeter.

WHAT YOU AVOID

A second platform

No new database to license or staff. No vendor cloud, so no egress charges and no third-party processor on your privacy register.

Licensing scales with mastered records, not scope. Domains, entities and attributes are unlimited on every paid edition — adding the second or tenth domain costs nothing, so the programme grows on appetite rather than budget rounds.
Capacity is pre-paid, not metered against you. Growth moves a band at renewal, pro-rated. Usage against your limit is a screen your administrator can open at any time.
Training is free at every tier. Four certification tracks with verifiable credentials — certify as many of your people, and your implementation partner’s people, as you like.
Implementation is the one variable line. Scoped by domain and source count. We would rather size it against your real sources than publish a number we cannot stand behind.

What we do not claim No outcome percentages, no implementation timeline, no ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certification and no uptime SLA. Established suites bring deeper breadth, larger partner ecosystems and analyst coverage; our ecosystem is younger. We would rather you hear that from us than find it later.

04 — The ask

Approve one domain and one working session

We stand up a hub on a single VM inside your perimeter, connect a sample of your own sources, and walk your data from first extract to golden record — live. You see the match evidence, the survivorship decisions, the audit trail and the exception queue on records you recognise.

If you already run an MDM platform, we point ours at the same sources and show you, read-only, exactly where the two answers differ before anything is cut over.

What you get: a defensible estimate for the full estate, and evidence to approve or decline the programme on. What you commit: nothing beyond the session.

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One version of the truth.On the database you already own.