DG-OS™ is our governance operating model, productized: councils, stewardship, and certification turned into a working platform where leaders see the living, breathing data entity of their business, one health score, one decision queue, every policy tied to the authority that obliges it. Proven at $150M, $1.2B, and $40B scale.
Every tier has a defined mandate, so decisions land at the level where they belong and escalate only when they should.
Executives, escalations, and strategic oversight. The tier where governance meets the enterprise agenda.
Operational reviews: DQE™ results, data product certifications, and maturity progression, on a standing cadence.
Shared definitions, reusable data products, and consistent standards aligned across domains.
Deep domain governance and stewardship, where the people closest to the data own its quality.
DG-OS™ replaces the blank-page governance design phase with components proven inside live enterprise engagements.
Stewards are selected on criteria that are both business-driven and technical, so ownership sits with people who understand the data and the decisions it feeds.
A certification pipeline across foundational, composite, and consumer-aligned tiers, so every data product carries a known, earned status.
Council agendas are driven by platform data, not status updates. Meetings review evidence: quality results, certifications, and maturity.
Shared definitions integrated with the enterprise catalog, including 250+ terms governed in Microsoft Purview at one client.
Governance maturity is measured and tracked over time, so councils steer against a trajectory instead of a snapshot.
Workflow automation scales council operations across countries, keeping the operating rhythm consistent as the footprint grows.
DG-OS™ puts the whole program on one screen: what's healthy, what needs a decision, what the rules are, and what the evidence says. And it is evidence-honest by design: what was measured is labeled measured, and what hasn't been checked says so, so the number in front of your board is one you can defend.
A single 0 to 100 score across quality, ownership, policy enforcement, shared language, and freshness, weighted for your world, with every signal linking to the surface that fixes it.
Governance work as a prioritized list with dollars attached. Approve, deny, escalate, or delegate in one click, and every decision becomes part of a permanent audit trail.
Where a regulation says a decision cannot be escalated or overruled, DG-OS™ enforces that finality in the product, not just in a policy document.
Read-only checks run against your warehouse, findings arrive in the queue with evidence attached, and editing a rule never counts as remediation.
A 10-dimension say-versus-do assessment that produces a Now / Next / Later roadmap and a board-ready PDF, quoting only evidence verified against connected systems.
An AI assistant grounded in your live program: health signals, open decisions, policies and their gaps, glossary, and inventory, so answers come from your data entity, not a generic model.
The same platform speaks your language: your sensitivity tiers, your authorities, your decision types, and how money at stake is framed for your board.
Right-sized governance without enterprise overhead: plain-language sensitivity tiers, the obligations that actually apply to you, and funding at stake framed the way your leadership talks about it.
Built for the GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, PCI DSS, and SOX world: subject requests, cross-border transfers, consent gaps, and data incidents arrive as decision types in the queue, with exposure on the table quantified.
CUI-aware sensitivity marking, deemed-export decisions that are final by regulation, and coverage of all 110 NIST SP 800-171 requirements mapped to your policies, with gaps raised straight into the queue as POA&M milestones.
DG-OS™ has run at $150M, $1.2B, and $40B scale. The structure flexes; the discipline doesn't.
We stood up the complete 4-tier council structure with certified data products in 3 months, because the councils, steward criteria, and certification steps were prescribed, not invented on site.
The governance program behind a $150M construction firm's 5x revenue growth: proof that an operating model built for a $40B enterprise also works at growth-stage scale.
A stewardship structure of 375+ stewards operating across roughly 550 offices at a $1.2B healthcare franchise, governance running as a distributed operating system, not a central bottleneck.
An operating model defines who owns data decisions and how they get made, then turns that into a working rhythm of councils, stewards, and certifications. DG-OS™ is our productized version: a 4-tier council structure, prescribed steward criteria that are both business-driven and technical, and 5-step data product certification, proven at $150M, $1.2B, and $40B scale.
Councils are the standing bodies that make and enforce data decisions. In DG-OS™ there are four tiers: the Global Governance Council, where executives handle escalations and strategic oversight; the Local Governance Council, which runs operational reviews of DQE™ results, certifications, and maturity; the Cross-Domain Council, where data owners align shared definitions, reusable products, and consistent standards; and the Intra-Domain Council, which handles deep domain-specific governance and stewardship.
We stood up a full 4-tier council structure with certified data products in 3 months at a $40B supplier. Because DG-OS™ is productized rather than designed from scratch, the councils, steward criteria, and certification steps are prescribed from day one.
Yes. DG-OS™ integrates the business glossary and catalog with Microsoft Purview, with 250+ terms governed in Purview at one client, and council agendas are driven by platform data. It pairs with DQE™, our Data Quality Engine, which is built on Databricks and Snowflake and deployable to any environment.
If your governance program lives in a policy binder, DG-OS™ is the operating system that puts it to work: councils with real agendas, stewards with real criteria, and data products with real certifications.
