Strategy & Governance
Governance frameworks designed for regulated environments, built to hold up under audit, and delivered as a fixed-scope project.
Why Governance?
Regulated companies don't fail audits because they don't care about data. They fail because nobody ever made governance easy to do right. Scattered ownership, no shared definitions, lineage nobody can trace, quality issues that surface at the worst possible moment. We fix the system, not just the symptoms.
Who We Help
Mid-market companies in industrial manufacturing, financial services, insurance, or pharma operating in Western or Northern Europe
Data and technology leaders facing a regulatory deadline, an upcoming audit, or a data incident that exposed gaps in governance
Companies that have tried to build governance internally and ended up with documents nobody uses
Teams preparing for NIS2, AI Act, or DORA obligations at data level and not sure where to start
What We Can Do for You
We tailor our support to your stage, capacity, and tech landscape.
Governance Framework Build
Data strategy definition aligned to your regulatory context and business goals
Governance architecture design: ownership model, stewardship roles, escalation paths
Business glossary and shared data definitions
Metadata workflows and documentation standards
Delivered as a fixed-scope project, typically 60 to 90 days
Governance Audit and Remediation
Structured assessment of your current governance state against DAMA-DMBOK standards
Gap analysis with prioritised remediation roadmap
Data ownership redesign and access policy review
KPI and metric alignment across departments
Typically delivered in 30 days with a 30-day remediation sprint
Ongoing Data Quality Monitoring
Automated quality monitoring via GovernanceEngine after project delivery
Monthly advisory session and compliance posture review
Continuous lineage tracking and quality alerting
For companies that need governance to run without a full-time CDO hire
Our Frameworks Typically Include:
DAMA-DMBOK–aligned governance architecture
Role-based access control & data ownership
Business glossary & taxonomy development
Metadata workflows
Lifecycle & retention policy recommendations
Strategic risk mapping & priority roadmaps
Why Clarity Layer?
We have spent 15 years in environments where bad governance has real consequences: global manufacturing operations, clinical research, regulated financial reporting. We know what auditors actually check, what regulators look for at data level, and what internal teams will actually follow versus what gets ignored six months later.
We combine deep EU regulatory expertise (NIS2, AI Act, GDPR, DORA, EU Data Act) with proprietary tooling that makes implementation faster and quality monitoring automatic. You get a working system, not a policy document.
