{"id":1345,"slug":"dashboard-sits-on-capture-layer-data-quality-determines-trust","title":"Dashboards sit on top of a capture layer (DB / warehouse / SaaS APIs / spreadsheets); data quality below the surface determines trust — abandonment frequently stems from numbers that don't reconcile, not from the visualization","kind":"reference","scope":"business","status":"current","audiences":["kevin","smb-owner","candid-team"],"topics":["data-infrastructure","dashboards"],"reference_body":"**Claim:** Dashboards connect to **operational databases, data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery), SaaS APIs, and spreadsheets**. The capture layer + data quality are the foundation: abandonment frequently stems from **data the user does not trust** (numbers that do not reconcile with the source system), not from visualization choices.\n\n**Source:** Practitioner / vendor synthesis (consistent across BI vendor literature).\n\n**Confidence:** Industry-consensus.\n\n**Why this matters for Candid:** The build-the-dashboard question is downstream of \"is the capture layer right?\" Same logic as the data-tools brief ([[rule-build-only-on-data-you-already-own]]) — you cannot dashboard data you have not captured cleanly.","rationale_body":null,"metadata":null,"links":{"outgoing":[{"slug":"dashboard-vs-static-report-definition","title":"Dashboard vs static report: dashboard is live + queryable + interactive; report is a point-in-time snapshot for documentation / compliance / shared \"version of truth\"","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"depends-on"}],"incoming":[{"slug":"research-brief-dashboards-smb-june-2026","title":"Research brief: dashboards for SMBs — what's worth showing, and when an embedded one earns its keep (June 2026)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}]},"created_at":"2026-06-20T18:03:12.075Z","updated_at":"2026-06-20T18:03:12.075Z"}