After browsing data cleaning tool lists, I still handed the dirty work to WorkBuddy

Today I came across a comprehensive list of AI data cleaning tools, covering everything from OpenRefine to databonsai to Hexomatic. The brands are all there, and the feature descriptions look great too. But as I scrolled through, only one practical question kept popping into my head: who’s going to handle that batch of spreadsheets the client threw at us last Friday afternoon? That kind of ad-hoc, irregular, messy file flow is the real pain point for people like us who are actually doing the work.