**Verse 1** A model's only as good as what it learned to hear Somebody's gotta find that, make the path clear No function here yet, just a need and a gap I build the thing from nothing — no existing map **Pre-Chorus** Not writing code, not training the machine Just making sure it has what it needs to learn, clean **Chorus** I'm the one who sources where the data comes from Vendors, partnerships, in-product, or both at once Researchers tell me what they're reaching for I find a way to get it, open up the door No playbook written, just ambiguity and will Building the team, the system, the whole capability **Verse 2** Scoping the vendor, checking the quality holds Contracts and oversight, a hundred small protocols Product sees a gap in how we're collecting still I partner up and close it, bit by bit, until **Pre-Chorus** Not writing code, not training the machine Just making sure it has what it needs to learn, clean **Chorus** I'm the one who sources where the data comes from Vendors, partnerships, in-product, or both at once Researchers tell me what they're reaching for I find a way to get it, open up the door No playbook written, just ambiguity and will Building the team, the system, the whole capability **Bridge** Building a team where there wasn't one before Director-level trust, walking through an open door Research, Product, Engineering, all at the table I make the unreliable into something stable **Outro** Where the data comes from, nobody thinks to ask Until the model sings and it's not by accident That's the job — upstream, unseen The first note in the whole machine
