Fractional CDO
XenoDATA is the managed service that gets you to a plan with executive air cover, in 90 days.
Two tracks. One system.
For data leaders
You get practitioners who've been in your seat, who know what org confusion feels like from the inside and what it takes to clear it. We bring the stakeholder interviews, the governance facilitation, the exec alignment sessions, and the use case delivery. DataWorkbench gives you the operating system. The AI agents surface what you'd otherwise miss. But it starts with expertise, not software. You lead. We give you the horsepower.
For executives
XenoDATA practitioners run the function: stakeholder interviews, exec alignment, governance facilitation, use case delivery. The platform makes it visible. The agents make it scalable. But the work is done by people who've built data functions before and know what good looks like at Month 3 and Month 12.
XenoDATA never replaces the data leader. We build the conditions for the data leader to succeed.
The alternatives
| Option | What it gets you | What it doesn't solve | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hire a consultant | Ideas and a framework | They won't lead on your behalf. You get a deck and recommendations. Then it's your problem to execute. | $500k+ |
| Hire a data person | Another person in the building | You're hiring around a problem you still own. Adding headcount doesn't fix the conditions. It just spreads the weight. | $200k+/yr |
| Buy metadata software | More visibility into your data | Do you really need to know more about your data? Or do you need the org to act on what you already know? Software doesn't build traction. | $100k+/yr |
| Figure it out yourself | Low cost | The worst way to learn is trial and error. Lost time, lost credibility, and the loneliest path in the building. | Lost time |
| Do nothing | No cost | Is this really an option? | N/A |
XenoDATA is none of these. It's the system that makes the leader you already have succeed.
The honest reality
Data leaders fail for the same reason data strategies fail. The organizational conditions to succeed don't exist when they arrive. No real use case with a business owner who has skin in the outcome. An exec sponsor who's supportive but not genuinely committed. Cross-functional teams who are interested but not accountable. Progress happening but invisible to the people who matter.
These aren't personal failures. They're clarity gaps. And they're almost always the same gaps.
XenoDATA builds the clarity that data leaders need to succeed, and that executives need to see their investment return.
See what a healthy engagement looks like at Month 3 and Month 12 →Before you book a workshop
Shows you the pattern behind stalled initiatives: your archetype, risk flags, and a personalized AI analysis of your specific situation.
Score across every capability dimension and benchmark against 100+ peer organizations. See where you rank before you invest.
No email required to see your results. Both take under 10 minutes.
DataWorkbench
DataWorkbench is what makes XenoDATA's expertise visible to everyone who needs to see it, not just the data leader. It's the platform at the center of every XenoDATA engagement. Use cases are tracked with named business owners, communities, and estimated value attached. Progress is visible in real time, to the data leader, to the exec sponsor, to every business stakeholder who needs to see it. No meetings required to stay informed.
Value Funnel: live view of business value across the portfolio
The Initiative Tracker tracks every initiative, data and AI, with a named business owner, a community, and an estimated value attached. That's how AI initiatives stop being experiments and start being accountable to outcomes.
AI Steward
The AI Steward doesn't replace practitioner judgment. It surfaces what practitioners need to act on, between sessions, in real time, without a meeting to prompt it. It runs automatically: generating governance documentation, assigning and tracking stewardship responsibilities, monitoring business term alignment across teams, and flagging community engagement before it drops. The program keeps moving without a meeting to move it.
Business Glossary: terms, definitions, stewards, and alignment status managed automatically
Capabilities
The AI Steward populates terms from existing documentation, assigns stewards based on domain ownership, and flags conflicts when two teams define the same term differently. No manual data entry. No governance committee required to keep the glossary current.
Fractional CDO Agent
Here's how we catch the warning signs before they become churn.
The Fractional CDO Agent monitors exec sponsor engagement continuously. When a sponsor who used to show up stops showing up, it flags the pattern before you lose the relationship. It runs on a decade of signals from engagements at Kraft Heinz, Williams Lea, AB InBev, and CEFCU. It knows what pre-churn looks like, because it's seen it before.
Every engagement starts with a named exec sponsor who has staked something on the outcome. The Agent makes sure that stays true.
Voice of Customer Analysis: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and risks surfaced automatically
Capabilities
The Agent runs continuously between sessions. When engagement patterns shift, a sponsor attends fewer meetings, a stakeholder stops responding, it surfaces the signal before it becomes a conversation you're not prepared for. Voice of customer analysis, governance signals, and progress reporting are supported alongside the core risk monitoring.
How it works
1. Workshop
30 minutes. Free.
A working session built around your situation. Not a pitch, not a discovery call. XenoDATA evaluates where things stand and delivers two things you can use immediately: an exec sponsorship narrative and a diagnostic of what's actually blocking the work. If we're the right fit, you'll know by the end. If we're not, you'll know that too.
2. Sprint
90 days. Fixed scope. Fixed price.
One use case scoped with a named business owner. Executive sponsor confirmed and in the room. DataWorkbench live. ROI estimate validated. This is not a pilot. It's a defined engagement with a defined deliverable. If it isn't working at day 90, you don't have to renew.
3. Managed service
Ongoing.
The sprint proves the method on one use case. The managed service runs the method across the next batch: scoping new initiatives, monitoring exec sponsor health, running the stakeholder community, and generating the progress narrative your leadership team can read without a meeting to interpret it. Month 12 is where the pre-agreed outcomes get measured 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, bespoke deliverables scoped around what the engagement has surfaced and delivered by a team that already knows your data, your stakeholders, and your org. Some clients never need this. Some clients make it the center of year two.
Done-with-you delivery
DataWorkbench, AI Steward, and the Fractional CDO Agent handle the platform, the governance, and the advisory intelligence. But when a use case is ready to move from identified to built, when you need a custom dashboard, a data pipeline, an integration, or a deliverable that doesn't exist yet, XenoDATA builds it with you.
Bespoke solutions scoped around the use cases your engagement has surfaced. Delivered by a team that already understands your data, your stakeholders, and your org. No separate vendor. No new onboarding. No context lost in translation.
Some clients never need this. Some clients make it the center of year two. It depends on what you're building and how fast you want to move.
Client stories
Technology-initiated. 7-year relationship. XenoDATA tied data strategy to business value for the first time, secured exec buy-in, and projected a seven-figure EBITDA uplift.
"XenoDATA gave us an incredible data roadmap to solve our most complex, global data issues."
Nick Morgan, Global Head of Technology, Williams Lea Tag
Before: New in role. Handed a data and AI mandate. Had conversations with the big consultancies and walked away with frameworks, not answers. The language wasn't translating to his executive room.
During: XenoDATA stripped the buzzwords. Scoped the first use case. Built an initiative inventory with named business owners and dollar estimates his CFO could engage with. Gave him the language to stop deferring to consultants and start directing them.
After: 4-year relationship. Named exec sponsor in every phase. Multi-year program. The method became repeatable.
"Identified millions of dollars of improvements directly attributed to better data management."
Paulo Santiago, Kraft Heinz
VP-initiated. 3-year relationship. XenoDATA built a structure people actually followed: clear roles, real accountability, and progress the whole organization could see.
"We were throwing solutions at problems to see what would stick."
Jennifer Flexer, VP Data Governance, CEFCU
7yr
Longest client relationship
$55M+
Measurable outcomes identified
759+
Business stakeholders engaged
Clarity is one conversation away.
30 minutes. No prep required. No commitment.
