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The product

The Data Governance Starter Kit

Thirty documents — 23 ready-to-adapt policy and standard templates plus a complete enablement layer — built from documents that have run in production, not a blank template. Start free with the 8-document Foundations set; unlock the full library when you're ready.

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Stop starting from a blank page

Most teams don't start from nothing — they start from a blank page, which is worse.

Writing a governance policy, a classification scheme, data-quality rules, and an onboarding process from scratch is months of work, and most online templates are hollow. This kit is a coherent set of documents that reference each other — shared vocabulary, shared roles, shared structure — so you adopt one program, not a pile of unrelated files. Every organization-specific detail is replaced with a clearly marked placeholder, with a one-page guide showing exactly what to fill in.

What's inside

23 templates across six tiers

The Foundation & Operating tier is free. The other five packs make up the Full Kit — get the complete kit, or buy any pack on its own.

Foundation & Operating Free

  • Data Governance Policy + Enforcement companion
  • Data Governance Council Charter
  • Roles & Responsibilities and RACI

Classification & Onboarding Full Kit

  • Data Classification Policy + Decision Key
  • Data Element Onboarding Standard
  • Implementing New Data Elements

Core Data Management Full Kit

  • Data Quality Policy & Procedure
  • Master Data Policy
  • Data Change Management Policy
  • Global Process Owners
  • Data Lifecycle Management
  • Data Issue & Incident Management

Compliance Pack Full Kit

  • Data Privacy & Protection (GDPR/CCPA-aligned)
  • Data Retention & Disposal
  • Data Access, Authorization & Sharing

Standards Pack Full Kit

  • Data Naming Standard
  • Metadata Standard
  • Business Glossary & Term-Definition Standard
  • Data Quality Rules Standard
  • Reference Data Standard

AI Governance Add-On Full Kit

  • Responsible AI & Data-for-AI Policy — govern AI use and the data that feeds it

Not just documents

A plan to make them stick

The hardest part of governance isn't writing the policies — it's getting a busy organization to adopt them. So the kit includes an enablement layer. The Roadmap, Executive Briefing, and Glossary come with the free Foundations; the Teacher's Guide, All-Staff DG 101 deck, and handouts come with the Full Kit.

Implementation & Adoption Roadmap

A phased rollout timeline, which stakeholders to bring in when, and a 90-day quick start.

Data Governance Teacher's Guide

A facilitator's guide with ready-to-run, audience-based lesson plans and exercises.

Briefing decks + handouts

An executive briefing to win sponsorship, an all-staff DG 101 deck, and plain-language one-pagers.

Data Governance Glossary

A shared, plain-language vocabulary so everyone means the same thing by the same words.

30
documents, fully cross-referenced
6
tiers — adopt incrementally
Decades
of specialist data governance experience

Generalized from real, adopted governance documents by seasoned data governance practitioners, drawn from real, adopted governance programs — not AI-spun filler.

Get the kit

Start free — upgrade when you're ready.

Take the free Foundations set now. Need the full operating library? Request the Full Kit or an individual pack and we'll send pricing and access.

Free Foundations 8 docs · free

The core Data Governance Policy + Enforcement, Council Charter, Roles/RACI, Implementation Roadmap, Executive Briefing, and Glossary — emailed to you instantly.

You'll get the kit plus the occasional, genuinely useful data governance insight. Unsubscribe anytime.

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