We found three correct revenue numbers in one meeting

Here’s a composite of a pattern we keep seeing. Finance brought monthly revenue. Sales had another number. The dashboard showed a third. None of them had a broken formula. One counted signed contracts, one counted invoices, and one counted collected cash. Everyone had answered a different question using the same word. Fixing it didn't mean creating a better dashboard. It was connecting each metric to its definition, source, owner, and business event. Once that context was visible, the disagreement disappeared pretty quickly. I asked AI to find me some guides online to read to do this better in