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Demand for answers is outpacing your headcount.

We build the data layer under your reports, then hand it to your team. Fixed prices. Your accounts. Senior-only delivery.

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  • $6,500 audit1 to 2 weeks, credited in full toward a build within 90 days
  • Builds from $55,000Milestone billed, 3 to 5 months
  • First answer in 10 business daysOr $2,500 credited or refunded
Book a 15-minute fit call

If we are the wrong answer, you leave knowing the right one.

Everyone needs the numbers. One person is producing them.

Customers are asking for reports. The CEO and CRO want visibility across data that lives in five tools. And the person building the dashboards is a founder or a generalist with another job to do.

The hiring math does not work yet. A junior cannot build the architecture and takes a year to train. A senior costs $150,000 to $220,000 fully loaded, takes 6 to 12 months to ramp, and is a coin flip on architecture skill. In the meantime you are still doing it yourself.

This is not a reason to never hire. It is a reason not to hire into nothing. We build the platform first, so your hire walks into a documented, working system.

One layer between your sources and your reports. Built to be handed over.

  • Standard SQL, dbt, and Git. Any competent data hire runs it cold.
  • Tests, lineage, and documentation ship with every model, never as a final phase.
  • Your engineers review every pull request from week one.
  1. RAWyour sources, as they arrive
  2. STAGEcleaned, typed, tested
  3. INTERMEDIATEbusiness logic, reusable
  4. MARTone definition per metric, ready for BI and AI
  5. YOUR TEAMdocumented, transferred, yours

Documentation is generated with every change. Not promised at the end.

Most data projects promise docs at the end and never deliver them. Here every model ships with its description, its tests, and its lineage as part of the change that creates it.

When your hire arrives, the knowledge is in the system, not in someone's head.

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Four steps. Each one earns the next.

    
    
      
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    Fit call
    
          15 minutes. No charge.
          
    A straight read on whether we can help. If not, you leave with what to do instead. Every engagement starts here.
    
        
    
      
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    Data Foundation Audit
    
          $6,500. 1 to 2 weeks.
          
    A teardown of your warehouse, pipelines, and BI, with every finding traceable to a check you can re-run. You get a written roadmap you own. Credited in full toward a build started within 90 days.
    
        
    
      
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    Build
    
          From $55,000. 3 to 5 months. Milestone billed.
          
    Your first answer within 10 business days once access is granted and verified on our end. Then the layered platform in dbt and Git, cost controls on the warehouse, and help hiring and onboarding your own data lead. Scope is fixed in writing before we start and moves with how many sources you run and how many domains we model. Designed to end.
    
        
    
      
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    Continuity
    
          From $2,000 a month. Optional.
          
    Monitoring, updates, small fixes, and quarterly stack advice. Month to month, cancel any time. Pricing depends on your requirements and any additional builds. The platform is yours either way.
    
        
    
      
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What we need from you

      
Access, and a light call on your team's time for business context, metric definitions, and reviews. We cap that at 4 to 5 hours a week, and reach the cap only when a milestone needs it. Access is the one setup step on your side, so we send the checklist within 24 hours of signing and work through it with your team. The guarantee clock starts once access is granted and verified as working on our end.

    

    
Third-party costs stay in your accounts from day one: warehouse compute, ELT, BI seats. The audit sizes them before you commit.

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Two guarantees. Precisely defined.

    
    
      
  • Prices and terms are on this page. A firm that publishes them is easier to check than one that does not.
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  • Quality gates run in your own pipeline. Failing tests, undocumented models, and untested grain block the merge. Your engineers see this from week one.
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  • Both guarantees are contract language with a dollar figure, not slide copy.
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The Two-Week Answer Guarantee

        
          
          
          
          
          access granted and verified
          working answer
          10 business days
          missed: $2,500 credited or refunded
        
        
One working answer to one real question from your backlog, agreed in writing before work starts, answerable with data you already have. Delivered within 10 business days of all agreed access being granted and verified as working on our end. If we miss it, $2,500 is credited toward your build, or refunded if you decide not to continue.

      

      

        
The Clean Exit Guarantee

        
If the engagement ends at any milestone, planned or not, you keep everything and it keeps working: models, tests, documentation, pipeline, and configuration, all in your accounts. Standard SQL, dbt, and Git. Nothing is held by us.

      

    

    
We run one full build at a time. That is a measured constraint, and it is why the fit call comes first.

      






  

    
Built for a specific moment.

    

      

        
This is for you if

        
    
          
  • You are 20 to 200 people with a warehouse and a BI tool in place, and no data team yet.
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  • Requests are outpacing whoever answers them, or two dashboards disagree.
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  • You can fund a defined engagement and intend to own the data function in-house.
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This is not for you if

        
    
          
  • You want the cheapest possible dashboard builder.
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  • You want a permanent embedded body on your team.
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  • You do not have real data volume yet. We will say so, and say what to do first.
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If you are in the second column, the fit call still ends with a straight recommendation.

      






  

    
The architect who scopes your platform is the one who builds it.

    
Every engagement is led by a senior data architect who does the work rather than supervising it. Where a specialist is added, you are told before they start, and they deliver under the same standards, the same quality gates, and the same confidentiality terms. No account manager between you and the work. No juniors learning on your budget. No handoff to a different team after signing.


    
How your data is handled

    
Bulk data never leaves your environment, because transformation is push-down: the work runs inside your warehouse. Metadata and aggregate findings leave by design, because they are the deliverable. How individual records are handled depends on what is in scope, and it is agreed before work starts.

    
We work under least-privilege access in your accounts. Send your vendor security questionnaire; completing it is part of onboarding, not a negotiation.


    
Asked and answered

    

      Why not just hire someone?
      
You will, and we help you do it. Hiring into chaos means 6 to 12 months of ramp and a coin flip on architecture skill, at $150,000 to $220,000 fully loaded. Hiring into a documented, working platform is a different job. That is why transfer is a scoped phase with deliverables, not a final email.

    

    

      What happens if the people on the build change?
      
The system holds the knowledge, not the person. Every model ships with tests, lineage, and documentation. Every decision lives in your repo. At any milestone, what exists is documented and running in your accounts. That is the same design that makes the transfer work at the end.

    

    

      What does the price include, and what runs in whose accounts?
      
Our fee covers the work: architecture, delivery, documentation, and transfer. Third-party costs run in your accounts from day one: warehouse compute, ELT, BI seats. The audit sizes them before you commit. At transfer, every account and key is already yours. Nothing routes through us and nothing has to be migrated later.

    

    

      Our Snowflake bill is already high. Does this add cost?
      
Unpredictable warehouse bills come from known causes: oversized warehouses sitting idle, missing auto-suspend, dashboards scanning raw tables on every refresh. Cost controls are a standard deliverable in every build: monitors, a sizing policy, and per-team tracking. The audit quantifies what is recoverable and separates what is measured from what is estimated.

    

    

      What do you need from us to start?
      
Access, a backlog of real questions, and a light call on your team's time, capped at 4 to 5 hours a week and reached only when a milestone needs it. We send the access checklist within 24 hours of signing and work through it with you. The guarantee clock starts once access is granted and verified as working on our end. If you already have an analyst, they become the platform's first power user, not its replacement.

    

  






  

    
Own your data function. Without a $200,000 bet to find out how.

    
One fit call. If we are the wrong answer, you leave knowing the right one. If we are the right one, the audit starts within days and every dollar of it credits forward.

    Book a 15-minute fit call
    
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