AI-Ready Enterprise Data Platform

Build the foundation AI requires. A governed, AI-ready lakehouse in 8 to 20 weeks.

AI initiatives don’t fail because the models are bad. They fail because the data isn’t ready. 27Global builds the data foundation your AI strategy requires — a production-grade, governed medallion lakehouse on Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, or AWS — so your agents and your analysts work from data they can actually trust, with an auditable record of who accessed what.

The 7% problem

Cloudera and Harvard Business Review found that only 7% of enterprises say their data is completely ready for AI. The other 93% are building on a foundation nobody evaluated.

The costs are already being paid before AI enters the picture. 85% of big data projects fail to deliver their intended value. Data silos cost organizations an estimated $7.8M a year in lost productivity, and poor data quality adds $9.7M to $15M annually per organization. Meanwhile, organizations with strong data integration achieve 10.3x ROI from AI, against 3.7x for those with poor integration.

The data layer doesn’t just enable AI. It determines how much AI ever delivers.

What we build

Bronze layer

Raw, immutable ingestion zone with a full audit trail and zero data loss. This is what your compliance auditors ask for and what most platforms cannot produce.

Silver layer

Validated, deduplicated, schema-enforced records that become the single source of truth for analytics, operational reporting, and ML feature engineering.

Gold layer

Aggregated, domain-specific models that are business-ready for AI agents, dashboards, executives, and LLM endpoints.

Governance layer

PII classification, row and column-level access control, end-to-end lineage visualization, and a business glossary your stewards actually maintain.

dbt transformation layer

Versioned, tested, documented Gold models with semantic layer metrics, so a number means the same thing in a dashboard and in an agent response.

Governed AI access layer

SQL endpoints, feature store, vector store, and MCP tool definitions so agents retrieve data with the right scope and leave an auditable access record.

Platform options

Databricks

Best for AI-heavy organizations. Unity Catalog governance, with MLflow and Agent Bricks integration.

Microsoft Fabric

Best for Microsoft-centric organizations. OneLake unified storage, with Power BI and Copilot as consumers.

AWS

Best for AWS-native organizations. S3 Tables on Iceberg, integrated with the SageMaker AI ecosystem.

Every build includes

A dbt project, PII classification and governance, end-to-end lineage, and a governed agent data access layer.

Team enablement

Hands-on platform training and architecture documentation, so your data engineering team owns the platform when we leave.

What this engagement owns

  • Ingestion, transformation, data quality, freshness, lineage, catalog, and access governance
  • Data-platform monitoring, stewardship, and incident response
  • Retrieval, semantic, feature, and vector foundations where scoped

What sits elsewhere

Agent evaluation and estate-level agent operations are owned elsewhere. We deliver trustworthy data products and the signals needed to judge data health — not the agents that consume them.

Where it goes next

AI Agent Factory consumes the data products this platform produces. AgentOps Governance consumes the data-health and provenance signals to correlate data quality with agent behavior and outcomes.

Delivery approach

1. Discovery and source assessment

Inventory source systems, profile data quality, map ownership, and identify the constraints that will shape the architecture.

2. Platform architecture and selection

Medallion architecture designed for your environment, with an explicit platform recommendation and the selection criteria behind it.

3. Governance and PII design

Classification scheme, access control model, lineage requirements, and stewardship workflow agreed before any pipeline is built.

4. Ingestion and Bronze/Silver build

Batch and streaming pipelines from agreed source systems, with data quality monitoring wired in from the first load.

5. Gold models and dbt layer

Domain-specific business models, versioned and tested in dbt, with semantic metrics for BI and agent consumption.

6. AI access layer and handover

Feature store, vector store, SQL endpoints, and MCP tool definitions, plus the operations runbook and team training.

Why independent delivery matters

Cloud providers offer data platform quickstarts that produce that cloud’s adoption roadmap. The global integrators deploy 20 to 40 people on a 6 to 12 month timeline optimized for their delivery model, not your outcome.

Production Gold layer in 8 to 12 weeks

Senior-staffed teams working from opinionated medallion reference architectures. Clients reach a production Gold layer in a quarter, not a fiscal year.

Agent data access from day one

MCP tool definitions, scoped retrieval, and auditable access records are designed in from the start. Retrofitting governed agent access later costs multiples more.

Compliance infrastructure, not just AI plumbing

The EU AI Act requires documented lineage, PII classification, and access audit trails for high-risk AI. GDPR, HIPAA, and DORA add their own. One platform satisfies all of it.

Platform-neutral recommendation

Databricks, Fabric, or AWS. We have built production platforms on each and recommend based on your team, your stack, and your existing commitments.

Without a governed data platform you cannot prove your AI training data is compliant, demonstrate human oversight over AI decisions, or satisfy the Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment required for high-risk systems. Enforcement begins August 2026.

Ready to build the foundation AI requires?

A governed, AI-ready lakehouse in 8 to 20 weeks.

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