# XenoDATA

> The outside voice for data and AI initiatives.

## About

XenoDATA is a Fractional CDO service founded by Taylor Culver, a former corporate data leader. The company delivers practitioner-led advisory, the DataWorkbench platform, a community of data leaders, and AI agents as one engagement.

Data leaders are paid to surface what is blocking execution. Every accurate diagnosis costs them standing with the people whose cooperation is needed to act on it. Over time, that cost compounds. XenoDATA is the outside voice that absorbs it: practitioners who can name what the inside can't, a platform that makes progress visible, a community that ends the isolation, and agents that keep the work moving between sessions.

## The Service

**Fractional CDO** is XenoDATA's flagship service: practitioner-led advisory with the DataWorkbench platform, a data leader community, and AI agents. Two tracks:

- **Supercharge Your Function** (you have a data leader): You lead. XenoDATA gives you the horsepower: practitioners who've been in your seat, DataWorkbench as your operating system, AI Steward running governance, and the Fractional CDO as the always-on outside voice between sessions.
- **Develop Your Data Leader** (you're building toward one): You don't have a data leader yet, or the person in the seat is still growing into it. XenoDATA stands up the function around a real person, coaches them through the first hard calls with executives, and builds the operating system they need to lead. XenoDATA never fills the seat. You end with a data leader, not a dependency.

XenoDATA never replaces the data leader. It builds the conditions for the data leader to succeed.

## What's Included

- **DataWorkbench**: The operating system for the data function. Use cases, data products, policies, business terms, and metrics are authored and owned in one system, each with a named business owner and a dollar value attached. Makes progress visible in real time to the data leader, the exec sponsor, and every stakeholder, with no meeting required.
- **AI Steward**: The governance agent. Drafts glossary definitions and reference data, scores use cases 0 to 100 for funding readiness, turns interview transcripts into fundable use cases, assigns stewardship and the access it requires, and flags where two teams define the same term differently. Governance stays current between sessions.
- **Fractional CDO (AI)**: The always-on outside voice. Reads every meeting note and platform metric, then names the wins, the hard truths, a maturity snapshot, and a SWOT the leadership team can act on. Monitors exec sponsor engagement and flags key-person and stewardship risk between sessions.
- **Data Leader Community**: A monthly cohort of data leaders at the same stage, facilitated by a XenoDATA practitioner. Structured check-ins, one commitment the group holds you to, and a pull-the-cord channel for urgent help between sessions. Part of the engagement, not a separate product. Founding cohorts, limited seats.

## How Engagements Work

1. **Workshop** (30 minutes, free): A working session built around your situation. Two deliverables you can use immediately: an exec sponsorship narrative and a diagnostic of what's actually blocking the work. Not a pitch.
2. **Sprint** (90 days, fixed scope, fixed price): One use case scoped with a named business owner. Exec sponsor confirmed and in the room. DataWorkbench live. ROI estimate validated. If it isn't working at day 90, you don't renew.
3. **Managed service** (ongoing): Runs the method across the next batch of initiatives: scoping new work, monitoring exec sponsor health, running the stakeholder community, and generating the progress narrative leadership can read without a meeting. Month 12 measures pre-agreed outcomes against what was promised at kickoff.
4. **Delivery support** (optional, year 2 and beyond): When a use case is ready to move from identified to built, the team builds it with you: custom dashboards, data pipelines, integrations, and bespoke deliverables.

## Entry Point

**Data Strategy Workshop**: free working session. Two deliverables: an exec sponsorship narrative and a diagnostic of what's actually blocking the work. Not a paid product. Not a commitment.

## Problems We Solve

XenoDATA links a data program to business outcomes and makes that link the way the work runs day to day. Each problem has a dedicated page:

- AI & Data Strategy (modern data strategy as a funded use case portfolio): https://xenodata.com/services/data-strategy/
- Data Governance (lean governance with named ownership, no committees; includes AI governance): https://xenodata.com/services/data-governance/
- Analytics & Reporting (one definition per metric, reporting executives trust): https://xenodata.com/services/analytics-and-reporting/
- Architecture & Efficiency (build vs buy sized to the funded portfolio): https://xenodata.com/services/architecture-and-efficiency/
- Data Product Development (products with owners, customers, and dollar values): https://xenodata.com/services/data-product-development/

## Podcast

**One Version of the Truth** is XenoDATA's podcast, hosted by Taylor Culver. A business podcast about how real decisions get made inside companies, judgment, tradeoffs, and what it actually takes to make data and AI work in the real world. Each episode page carries the full transcript, a summary, and pull-quotes.

- Podcast index: https://xenodata.com/podcast/
- Why the Data & AI Value Gap Starts in the Boardroom (with Kyle Winterbottom, Orbition Group): https://xenodata.com/podcast/why-the-data-and-ai-value-gap-starts-in-the-boardroom/
- What the Best Data, Analytics & AI-Driven Companies Do Differently (with Jack Phillips, International Institute for Analytics): https://xenodata.com/podcast/what-the-best-data-analytics-and-ai-driven-companies-do-differently/
- Building a $10M+ Data Business in the AI Boom in 12 Months (with Kai Thapa, SunnyData): https://xenodata.com/podcast/building-a-10m-data-business-in-the-ai-boom/
- Why Data Projects Fail Long Before the Technology Does (with Matt Wicks, The Virtual Forge): https://xenodata.com/podcast/why-data-projects-fail-long-before-the-technology-does/
- Building Community, Context, and Trust in Data Leadership (with Tony Shaw, Dataversity): https://xenodata.com/podcast/building-community-context-and-trust-in-data-leadership/
- Delivering When the Supply Chain Stops and the Data Says No (with Chris Brozek): https://xenodata.com/podcast/delivering-when-the-supply-chain-stops/
- From $0 to $100M: What Breaks (and Scales) in Data-Driven SaaS Sales (with Tim O'Neil, Matillion): https://xenodata.com/podcast/from-0-to-100m-in-data-driven-saas-sales/
- How CEOs Use Data When the Answer Isn't Clear (with Clare Hart): https://xenodata.com/podcast/how-ceos-use-data-when-the-answer-isnt-clear/
- Beating the Market: Turning Data Into Signal (with Ajit Agrawal, AKAnomics Inc): https://xenodata.com/podcast/beating-the-market-turning-data-into-signal/
- Unlocking Value in M&A with Data Insights (with Sri Malladi, Athena Consulting Partners): https://xenodata.com/podcast/unlocking-value-in-m-and-a-with-data-insights/

## Clients

Williams Lea, Kraft Heinz, CEFCU, Accurate Background, Blount Fine Foods, AB InBev, M&A Insurance.

## Links

- Homepage: https://xenodata.com/
- Platform (operating system, AI agents, and data leader community): https://xenodata.com/platform/
- Data Leader Community: https://xenodata.com/platform/#peer-group
- DataWorkbench: https://xenodata.com/platform/#dataworkbench
- AI Steward: https://xenodata.com/platform/#ai-steward
- Fractional CDO (AI): https://xenodata.com/platform/#fco-assistant
- Data Strategy Workshop: https://xenodata.com/solutions/data-strategy-workshop/
- Customer Stories: https://xenodata.com/customer-stories/
- About: https://xenodata.com/about/
- Resources: https://xenodata.com/resources/

## Contact

- Website: https://xenodata.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/xenodatapartners/
- Book a workshop: https://xenodata.com/solutions/data-strategy-workshop/