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title: "Fix the Foundation First & Then Power Your AI"
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Case Study

# Fix the Foundation First & Then Power Your AI

## How Talbots moved its analytics team from manual reporting to strategic AI-ready work by getting its data infrastructure right before chasing the next shiny tool.

Pick up a Truman and move him around.Pause wandering

When data is fragmented across a multi-brand portfolio, even the best analytics team spends its time reconciling numbers instead of generating insight. Talbots chose to fix that before building anything on top of it.

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