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CDO Agent Org

Data Operating Model & Agent Org

Designs the data organisation first: decision rights, structure, RACI, and where AI agents sit alongside people.

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Illustrative output of Data Operating Model & Agent Org: Designs the data organisation first: decision rights, structure, RACI, and where AI agents sit alongside people.
Illustrative output with sample data.
The challenge

A diagnostic with no owner is a document.

Decisions stall

Nobody can say who decides what, so every platform choice becomes a committee.

Agents arrive with no job description

AI tools get deployed with no role, no owner and no guardrails.

Findings land nowhere

Assessments produce red flags, but no one is accountable for moving them.

The org chart is not the operating model

Structure exists on paper while real decisions happen somewhere else.

How it works

From first question to finished output.

Assess

A 30-question maturity assessment across 6 operating-model dimensions, scored 1–5.

Design

Choose the CDO archetype and org structure, then set RACI and decision rights.

Add the agents

Place 8 defined data-agent roles in a Human–Agent RACI. A human is always Accountable.

Deploy

A phased roadmap and a 90-day playbook for the first wave.

What you get

  • 30-question maturity assessment across 6 dimensions
  • CDO archetype, org structure, RACI and decision rights
  • 8 agent roles, a Human–Agent RACI and a 90-day deployment playbook

What goes in

Current org chart, governance forums, decision rights as they actually work, headcount and budget.

Time to answer

As a consulting engagement10 weeks3 people · 30 consultant-weeks
Running the skill2–4 hours per modeone sitting, start to finished output

What it still needs from you

The conversations about authority that no framework resolves.

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Thirty minutes with Harveer, on your own data problem.