Start with the business question
A teammate needs to know who used a resource, which customers need attention, why spend changed, or what changed since last month.
Dashboards can show what is happening. Adequate Data starts with the business question and gives your team a clear answer with source context, filters, calculations, assumptions, and proof when it needs to travel.
Generic dashboard tools can make plausible visuals. Adequate Data is focused on the moment a team asks a question about company data and needs to defend how the answer was produced.
A teammate needs to know who used a resource, which customers need attention, why spend changed, or what changed since last month.
Adequate Data keeps the answer tied to source context, filters, records checked where available, and the calculation that produced the result.
The outcome is a clear answer your team can review, reproduce, and challenge before it becomes a decision.
The sample path shows the question, answer, calculation used, source file, records checked, how the answer was built, assumptions, and exportable proof.
How it was built
Metric definition and data source
Proof IDs
Calculation and proof identifiers
Answer
Clear result with supporting detail