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CHECKLIST · BARC

# Find it. Classify it. Get AI-ready.

79% of data leaders are confident they can govern unstructured data for AI. Only 29% fully know where it lives. BARC turned that gap into a checklist that takes your files from found to ready.

## Get the free checklist

WHAT’S IN THE CHECKLIST

## Three stages, with the boxes to check at each one

- DISCOVER

  ### Know what’s there

  Find the files your agents will use, including the shadow repositories every inventory misses.
- REFINE

  ### Make them ready and safe

  Turn files into trusted inputs, with access that’s role-based and reviewable.
- VALIDATE

  ### Prove what your AI used

  Keep your trusted sources current, and trace any answer back to the file it came from.

> You cannot govern, secure or use what you cannot find. Discoverability is the starting point of every serious AI program.

_Kevin Petrie, VP of Research · BARC US_

## If you don’t know where your files live, you don’t know what your agents are learning from

Get the checklist BARC built from its research with 225 data and AI leaders.

Get the checklist