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How Latttice and Lenz Work Together

Understand how the trusted-data layer and the decision-and-AI layer combine to deliver active governance and AI readiness end to end.

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Why this matters

Most platforms address either the data layer or the AI layer, not the path between them. Latttice and Lenz are designed to operate together so governance and trust travel from data into decisions.

The challenge

· Data governance and AI governance are run as separate programs.
· Trust signals get lost between the catalog and the runtime.
· AI deployments cannot prove compliance.

What good looks like

Trust, quality and policy signals attached in Latttice are visible to Lenz at runtime.
Lenz enforces those signals at the point of decision.
Audit is continuous across data and AI.

The Data Tiles framework

Stage 1
Latttice publishes
Trusted data products with machine-readable signals.
What to do
Publish priority products through Latttice.
Where it gets stuck
Signals not standardized.
How Latttice helps
Latttice standardizes the signal bundle.
Stage 2
Lenz consumes
Lenz consumes signals at the point of decision.
What to do
Wire Lenz to consume signals from Latttice.
Where it gets stuck
No integration between catalog and runtime.
How Lenz helps
Lenz reads Latttice signals natively.
Stage 3
Decision enforced
Lenz enforces governance and explains decisions in the moment.
What to do
Deploy Lenz against priority decisions.
Where it gets stuck
AI runtimes lack governance hooks.
How Lenz helps
Lenz acts as the governance hook.

Practical roadmap

First 30 days

· Map current Latttice products to priority AI use cases.

Next 60 days

· Deploy Lenz against one priority decision using Latttice signals.

Next 90 days

· Roll out the pattern across additional priority decisions.

Prioritize

· High-value AI decisions with regulatory exposure.

Avoid

· Treating the two as independent purchases.

Common mistakes

· Running data and AI governance as separate programs.
· Failing to standardize signals.
· Ignoring the runtime integration.

How Data Tiles helps

We design the end-to-end pattern, configure the signal flow from Latttice to Lenz, and prove value on one priority decision before scaling.

How Latttice enables this

Stage	Challenge	Capability	Business outcome
Discover	Teams cannot find or trust the data behind trusted data products.	Latttice publishes data products with business meaning, ownership and trust signals attached.	Faster reuse, less duplication, fewer escalations.
Build	Building trusted data products repeatably without replatforming.	Latttice industrializes data product build on top of the existing stack.	Lower cost to build and operate, faster time to value.
Govern	Governance lags behind delivery.	Latttice attaches quality, lineage, ownership and policy signals to every data product.	Active governance without a manual review bottleneck.
Operate	Ownership defaults to IT after launch.	Latttice gives business owners the controls they need to take real accountability.	Sustained business ownership and trust over time.

How Lenz enables this

AI requirement	Capability	Governance benefit	Business outcome
Explainability for priority decisions	Lenz captures decision context and explains the reasoning behind every AI-supported action.	Auditable, defensible decisions.	Confidence to deploy AI on real decisions.
Policy enforcement at runtime	Lenz applies governance signals from Latttice as policy at the point of decision.	Active enforcement, not after-the-fact review.	Risk is managed in the moment, not the audit.
Accountability for AI decisions	Lenz attaches the named human owner and the decision instrumentation to every AI action.	Clear ownership of AI outcomes.	AI is adoptable by the business, not just the lab.

Executive checklist

Latttice publishes the signal bundle on priority products.
Lenz consumes those signals at runtime.
Governance flows from data into AI decisions automatically.

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