Do we need to clean our data before we start?

Waiting for a clean estate means never starting, because content estates are never clean. What matters is not cleanliness but characterization: knowing what categories exist, where sensitive material sits, what is duplicated, what is orphaned.

Centralpoint's ingestion characterizes as it goes. Data Transfer draws from source systems, Data Cleaner evaluates against the organization's dictionary, and taxonomy assignment places records in a recognized structure. Duplication, unclassified sensitive content and stale material surface at this point, when they are cheap to address rather than after they are embedded.