Data Sovereignty — Weekly Checks and Balances — May 15

The May 15 Data Sovereignty webinar. Brady walks through the operational checks-and-balances that keep a live data stack honest: the five Friday questions, the silent-failure signals to watch for, and how to catch drift before customers notice.

What this session covered

The operational rhythm that keeps a stack alive vs. abandoned. Covers: the 5-question Friday review, three silent-failure signals every system leaks, and the difference between stewardship and benign neglect.

The five Friday questions — Is data flowing? Are syncs current? Where's the brittleness? What surfaced this week? What needs a swap?
Silent-failure signals — stale Airtable cells, dead webhooks returning 200, queue depth creep, schema drift between two systems
Stewardship beats heroics — the difference between stacks that grow and stacks that decay is who reviews them, not who built them

Course Bridge

This replay supports: Supports Day 5 (operational readiness) + Day 7 (sustaining the stack). The course implements the 5 questions as automation; this session frames the practice.

What this session doesn't cover: The session frames the weekly rhythm but doesn't walk through automating the five questions, the alerting patterns for silent failures, or the escalation roadmap when drift becomes a customer issue. The course closes those gaps in Day 5-7.

If the weekly rhythm clicked, the full 7-day Data Sovereignty Course ($297) turns the review questions into automation you don't have to remember to run.