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Before You Ask AI to Analyze Your Data, Do This First
Jeff Sauer
July 30, 2026
AI cannot clean your data.
Obvious when it is written down. Less obvious in the moment you paste a messy report into Claude or ChatGPT and wait for something smart to come back.
This week Julie Brade, our Director of Measurement, walks through the filter she runs before any of that happens. She calls it QIA, and she has been teaching it for well over a decade.
Watch: Before You Ask AI to Analyze Your Data, Do This First
The letter doing the work is the A. Action. If a number on your dashboard cannot change what you do next, it does not belong on the dashboard. Julie's word for the alternative is hoarding, and most dashboards she opens are full of it.
Watch Julie's walkthrough here.
To Your Measured Success!
--Jeff Sauer
CEO of MeasureU
P.S. Early-bird pricing for Julie's AI-Ready Data Workshop ends tomorrow.