Engineer the data layer.
Ship intelligence that compounds.

We're a small, senior team that builds production data platforms, analytics, and ML systems for companies that treat data as infrastructure — not a dashboard.

Platforms shipped
PB
Data under mgmt
%
Avg. cost reduction
yrs
Median tenure
Selected clients
Inteleos Eli Lilly Business Talent Group AWP Judge
01 · Services

Four practices.
One engineering team behind all of them.

We staff each engagement with senior engineers who own the system end-to-end — no handoffs between strategy, build, and run.

Lakehouse platforms that don't buckle at scale.

We design and build production data platforms on Databricks and open table formats — medallion architectures, streaming pipelines, governance baked in from day one.

Lakehouse architecture
Delta Lake, Iceberg, Snowflake, Unity Catalog. Bronze → silver → gold with contracts between each layer.
Streaming & CDC
Kafka, Debezium, Structured Streaming. Sub-minute freshness where it matters; daily batch where it doesn't.
dbt & transformation
Tested, versioned, documented models. Lineage you can actually trust during an incident.
Cost engineering
Cluster right-sizing, warehouse tuning, Photon adoption. Average client: 38% lower cloud spend.
pipelines / production

Agents, RAG, and ML that earn their keep in production.

Applied AI — not demos. Retrieval systems grounded in your data, multi-step agents with tools and guardrails, and classical ML wrapped in the same evaluation and monitoring discipline.

RAG over your corpus
Chunking, hybrid retrieval, rerankers, citation-faithful generation. Vector stores on Databricks, pgvector, or Pinecone — your call.
Agent systems
Tool-using agents with structured outputs, memory, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints. Built for reliability, not demos.
Evals & guardrails
Real eval harnesses with golden sets, LLM-as-judge, and regression gates in CI. Red-team tests before launch — not after.
Forecasting & classification
Demand, churn, risk, fraud. Feature stores, online inference, drift monitoring.
MLOps
MLflow, model registry, CI/CD for models and prompts. Deploy to endpoints, not notebooks.
agent / support_triage_v2

Analytics leadership can actually read.

Semantic layers, metric stores, dashboards that answer the next question instead of raising it. We treat BI as a product with users — not a backlog of chart requests.

Metric stores & semantic layers
One definition of revenue. Consistent across Tableau, Looker, Power BI, Snowflake, and your notebooks.
Executive & operational dashboards
The five charts that matter — designed, not dumped. Annotations, benchmarks, drill paths.
Self-serve enablement
Office hours, docs, governance. Analysts across the org, not a ticket queue in central BI.
Embedded analytics
Dashboards inside your product. Row-level security, tenancy, customer-facing metrics.
dashboard / ops_overview

The boring parts that keep everything alive.

Platforms are only as good as the week-three on-call rotation. We set up observability, contracts, and runbooks so your team sleeps through most incidents.

Observability & SLOs
Freshness, volume, schema, distribution. Paged before the business notices.
Data contracts
Producers publish a schema and SLA. Consumers stop discovering breaks in production.
Governance & security
Lineage, access reviews, PII tagging, audit trails that hold up under regulator scrutiny.
Staff augmentation
Senior embed for 3–12 months to raise the floor of your existing team.
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02 · Approach

How we actually work.

No slide-heavy kickoffs. No junior rotations. We start with a two-week architectural review, then ship in 4–6 week increments with a single senior lead.

Week 0–2

Architectural review

We read the code, the dashboards, and the incident log. You get a written assessment — what to keep, what to retire, what to rebuild — with cost and risk for each.

Deliverable · 30–50 page document + exec readout
Week 2–8

Foundations

Platform basics in place: environments, CI/CD, lineage, observability, access model. First real pipeline in production by week six.

Pairing · embedded with your team
Week 8+

Compounding delivery

4–6 week increments, each with a measurable outcome — a migrated workload, a shipped model, a retired legacy system. Written retros every cycle.

Cadence · biweekly demos · monthly exec
Ongoing

Handoff by design

Every engagement ends with your team owning the platform. Runbooks, architecture docs, training sessions, and a 90-day tail of async support.

Exit · no surprise retainer · clean handoff
03 · Case studies

Selected work.

Representative engagements across healthcare, capital markets, logistics, and life sciences. Deeper write-ups on request.

CS · 001Healthcare · 11 months

Replaced a legacy warehouse powering 1,200 clinicians — no downtime.

Migrated a 2.1 PB Teradata footprint to a Databricks + Snowflake lakehouse for a US regional health system. Cut nightly refresh from 9 hours to 22 minutes; unblocked a care-gap ML program that had been stalled for 18 months.

22min
Nightly refresh · was 9h
41%
Reduction in run-rate cost
0·
Clinical downtime incidents
CS · 002Capital markets · 6 months

Sub-second risk analytics for a mid-market asset manager.

Designed a streaming risk platform on Structured Streaming + Delta, with a semantic layer feeding both the PM desk and regulators. Portfolio-level VaR recomputes in 600ms on intraday ticks.

600ms
End-to-end VaR latency
7→1
Source systems consolidated
SR 11-7
Model governance passed
CS · 003Logistics · 8 months

Forecasting that the planners actually use.

Built a hierarchical demand forecast for a North American 3PL covering 340 lanes. Embedded into the existing planning tool rather than a new dashboard — adoption hit 91% of planners in the first quarter.

23%
MAPE improvement vs. baseline
91%
Planner adoption · Q1
$11M
Annualized stock-out savings
04 · Contact

Start with a technical review.

Two weeks, fixed fee, written deliverable. If we're not the right team for the build, we'll tell you — and often point you to someone better suited.

Engagement minimum
$45k · 2 weeks
Typical engagement
$180k–$1.2M · 3–12 mo
Response time
< 24 hours · business days