In child care, we have no shortage of spreadsheets, reports, and dashboards. What we lack is shared interpretation.

Two agencies can look at the same numbers and walk away with opposite conclusions. Providers interpret data through lived experience. Families interpret it through stress, time, and pressure. Policymakers interpret it through funding cycles.

Data becomes meaningful only when everyone understands the story the numbers are pointing to—and the limitations behind them.

This is why insight infrastructure matters. Not just data.
A system is only as clear as the meaning we’re able to build together.