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The trust gap in Data teams

How freshness, availability, and pipeline success rates miss the only metric that matters: confidence.

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Matt
Jan 16, 2026
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Data teams live by SLAs and data quality checks. Yet almost no one actually trusts them.

You can publish a beautiful document with freshness guarantees, pipeline success rates, and expected delivery windows, but the business will still check with you before using a dashboard. Because experience taught them that reality rarely matches the doc.

Why?

Because …

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