Records Retention Hasn’t Caught Up to AI
Jason Stearns
July 29, 2026
Most organizations have spent years building retention schedules around a familiar set of record types: project documents,
Most organizations have spent years building retention schedules around a familiar set of record types: project documents,
Organizations don’t struggle to manage their data because they lack policy. Most have a retention schedule somewhere,
This series began with a simple claim. If information governance exists only in policy, it
This series has been building toward execution. Retention has to be operational, not just documented. It needs structure, and
In the last post, we made the case that retention schedules need structure—that operational governance
Throughout this series, one idea has surfaced in nearly every post. Structure. Consistency across environments depends on