A perspective on data quality built from years of enterprise, regulatory, and operational experience.
Throughout my career, I repeatedly encountered the same problem: critical business decisions were being made on data that no one fully trusted. When the data broke, teams scrambled—launching emergency projects to fix reports, meet regulatory deadlines, or explain discrepancies after the fact.
These efforts were expensive, stressful, and rarely permanent. The same issues resurfaced again and again, often for the same underlying reasons.
What became clear to me is that data quality is not primarily a tooling problem. It is an operating problem. Without clear ownership, repeatable monitoring, and a shared cadence for fixing root causes, even the best tools fail to produce lasting results.
Perfect Data was created to address this reality. We provide both the software and the management framework required to make data quality operational. Our platform helps teams define what “good” looks like, detect defects early, assign ownership, and track whether issues are truly resolved—not just temporarily patched.
We designed the Perfect Data framework to be simple, practical, and usable across roles. People are busy, incentives are misaligned, and change is hard. A successful data quality program must fit into how organizations actually work, not how they wish they worked.
I believe that every organization can achieve reliable, high-quality data for the information it deems critical. For us, success is not measured by dashboards or feature counts, but by whether recurring data issues stop recurring.
As Perfect Data grows, our commitment remains the same: help organizations move from reactive firefighting to durable, measurable data quality.
Nicholas Horvath
Founder, Perfect Data
We’re happy to discuss how this philosophy translates into a practical data quality program for your organization.