We make data work pipelines.

Your focus is your work.

Ours is the data behind it.

The Work

Everything data. End-to-end.

Strategy at the start, platform and foundation underneath, apps and dashboards on top.

Overarching Threads through every engagement

Strategy & Advisory
Always embedded in the work itself, and sometimes an engagement on its own. We ask hard questions, help define meaningful goals, draw the architecture and develop a practical roadmap. With us your vision is informed by decades of practical experience and success.

BI, Reporting & Dashboards
Where the right data meets the right people. Executive dashboards, operational reports and self-service analytics. We model the data so that the information is intuitive and meaningful. The goal is never A Dashboard, the goal is a better informed business.

Analytics & ML
Predictive models, segmentation and statistical analysis; we use advanced data techniques to help you build smarter systems that forecast outcomes, automate decisions and streamline operations.

Custom Data Apps
When a dashboard isn't enough. Internal tools, customer-facing data products, full-stack apps, AI-enabled interfaces and workflows when you need them.

Build The engineering foundation

Data Pipelines & Orchestration
The plumbing that moves data. Reliable, observable, recoverable. If it moves data we have done it: batch, streaming, CDC, orchestration. Legacy migrations or greenfield builds.

Databases & Platforms
The data backbone - selected and designed for specific use cases. We choose the right tool for the job relying on our decades of experience. Lakehouse, warehouse, or plain RDBMS. From scratch warehouse builds, data model and schema design, migrations off legacy are all in our wheelhouse.

Data Quality & Governance
The unglamorous work that ensures the outputs of these systems are meaningful. Quality tests, lineage, master data, governance, contracts, documentation and catalogs.

Selected Clients

Judge Group

Unified warehouse design, semantic model and custom pipelines.

ASI Central

Data apps, predictive models, warehouse migration.

Blue Current

Bespoke battery research platform, fully managed.

Comcast

Data analytics on a Fortune 500 platform.

PeopleMetrics

Analytics and reporting.

MicroShare

IoT analytics and device management.

The Way

Ideate. Pressure Test. Build. Operate.

We build quickly using phases, not big bangs. Each stage has a clear purpose, moves the work forward and produces a key output needed as input for the next stage as well as standalone valuable artifacts.

End-to-end or just a few pieces. Your choice.

How we'd build an airplane — if we built airplanes.

The Map

Data capabilities, mapped.

The data landscape is broad and moves fast. So we mapped it — every capability we engage with, organised the way we actually think about it. We use it to scope work, plan projects, and figure out what's missing.

L3·Activation

  • Governance & Discovery
    Managing data as a discoverable, governed asset.
  • Analytics & BI
    Where data meets decisions.
  • AI & Machine Learning
    Predictive, generative, evaluated.
  • Data Products & Apps
    Putting data to work.

L2·Engineering

  • Transformation & Modelling
    Shaping data for the question being asked.
  • Master Data Management
    One customer, one product, everywhere.
  • Quality & Observability
    Keeping data trustworthy.
  • Orchestration & Automation
    Running and shipping the work.

L1·Foundation

  • Network & Identity
    Who and what gets in — the access fabric.
  • Connectivity & Integration
    How data moves — in any direction.
  • Storage Architecture
    Where data lives.
  • Compute & Runtime
    Where data work runs.

The Firm

A small firm that ships.

Independent data firm in Philadelphia, founded in 2015. Between client engagements we run our own research: products, prototypes and internal tools that keep our skills and knowledge sharp.