THE JUDGE GROUP
Starting with clean data Data governance is right at the foundation of Judge’ s digital transformation strategy. As the company has grown in stature in recent years, disparate data entry practices across systems have created some significant challenges when it comes to automation.
In 2025, the whole business world is awake to the fact that AI can help to solve issues with data, but Matt knows that even with all the AI and automation tools in the world, a company’ s workflow cannot function properly without clean, standardised data.
“ You can’ t deploy proper AI and automation tools on top of your systems unless your data’ s clean,”
Matt states.“ That’ s the foundational step to successful AI and automation deployment.”
To address these fundamental issues, Judge has implemented a comprehensive data governance programme, standardising vendor records, customer records and potential client information across the applicant tracking system, customer relationship management platform and payroll systems. The company has also established clear data lineage protocols.
Data lineage identifies the“ gold record” for each piece of information. This means knowing which system contains the authoritative version of any data point. Matt’ s team has developed an internal
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