Your CRM is a Crime Scene: Why AI Isn’t the Detective
Ronald Coase famously said, “If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything.”
But in 2025, we face a new problem. If you feed GenAI bad data, it doesn’t just confess under pressure; it invents a believable lie.
Everyone in my feed is obsessed with “Agentic AI” and autonomous workflows. Meanwhile, I’m seeing marketing leaders in APAC sitting on fragmented, siloed, and non-compliant data foundations.
Here is the uncomfortable truth: If your data is messy, your AI agents are dangerous.
They aren’t just inefficient; they are scaling your governance risks and hallucinating at the speed of light.
We are seeing a massive divide in the market right now:
𝟭. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘀: Adding expensive AI layers on top of dirty data. (This is like putting a Ferrari engine in a go-kart.)
𝟮. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀: Unifying CDPs, enforcing taxonomy, and building compliance rails.
Pragmatists understand that the “boring” work is the highest-ROI investment in 2025 and beyond. Forget the Gen AI headlines for a moment. The actual competitive moat today is being built by The Pragmatists. They are doing the hard, non-negotiable work: architecting unified, audit-ready CDPs, enforcing the data taxonomy that enables global reporting, and engineering the compliance rails that embed Responsible AI governance from day one. This isn’t just IT hygiene; this is how scalable, trustworthy revenue is built in the APAC hyper-growth markets.
You cannot buy a Tech tool to fix a broken strategy. 𝗔𝗜 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲. 𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲.
Before you sign that next SaaS contract, could you look at your data first? If it seems like a crime scene, don’t hire an AI agent. Hire a cleaner. Get the foundations correct first
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