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What we do

Data Engineering & Analytics

We organise operational data into trustworthy, well-governed systems that support reporting, automation and AI.

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The service

Built around the outcome, not the buzzword

Analytics becomes useful when people trust the definitions and can trace where a number came from. Most reporting problems aren't technical failures — they're two teams calculating 'active user' or 'revenue' differently and never noticing until a board meeting. Before building pipelines, we agree metric definitions with the people who actually use them, so the resulting numbers are trusted rather than merely produced.

Pipelines extract from source systems — application databases, SaaS tools, event streams — and transform that data into a consistent, tested shape. We favour ELT over hand-built ETL scripts where possible: land raw data first, then transform it in the warehouse using version-controlled, testable models, so changes are reviewable and a transformation bug doesn't require re-extracting from source to fix.

Warehouse and lakehouse design balances query performance against modelling complexity — dimensional models for reporting workloads that need to stay fast as data grows, simpler structures where volume and query variety don't justify that overhead. Lineage is tracked from source table to final dashboard, so when a number looks wrong, tracing it back to its origin takes minutes rather than a day of Slack messages.

Dashboards are built around decisions people actually make, not every column available in the warehouse — a smaller set of well-defined views tends to get used more than a comprehensive one nobody opens. Data-quality checks and alerting run alongside the pipelines themselves, so a broken source feed or a schema change surfaces as an alert rather than a wrong number someone eventually notices.

Capabilities

What we can build together

Data strategy and architecture
ETL and ELT pipelines
Warehouses and lakehouses
Business intelligence dashboards
Data quality and observability
Analytics APIs and embedded reporting

Designed for outcomes

  • 01One agreed definition for each key metric, so finance, sales and product stop presenting different numbers for the same thing
  • 02Manual spreadsheet reconciliation replaced by pipelines that run on schedule and flag failures before a report goes out wrong
  • 03A governed data foundation ready to support new analytics features or AI initiatives without a rebuild from scratch

What you receive

Tangible delivery, clearly documented

  • A source-to-metric architecture blueprint with agreed definitions signed off by the teams that use them
  • Automated, version-controlled ingestion and transformation pipelines with tests built in
  • A governed warehouse or lakehouse model designed around actual reporting and query patterns
  • Dashboards, alerting and data-quality monitoring that catch failures before they reach a report

Technology

Tools chosen for the job

We stay technology-flexible and select the stack around your existing environment, security constraints, team capability and long-term cost.

PostgreSQL, Snowflake, BigQuery and other cloud warehouse platformsdbt for version-controlled, tested data transformation, with Airflow or Dagster for orchestrationPython and streaming platforms such as Kafka and Kinesis for real-time or high-volume ingestionPower BI, Looker and embedded or API-based analytics for reporting and product-facing dashboards

Frequently asked

Questions about Data & Analytics

How long does a first pipeline and dashboard build take?

A focused build covering a handful of key sources and metrics typically takes four to six weeks, including definition workshops with stakeholders. Broader data platform builds spanning many source systems and a full warehouse model run two to three months, with dashboards delivered incrementally as each domain's pipelines go live.

Do you migrate our existing reports, or start from scratch?

We usually audit existing reports first to understand which metrics and definitions are actually trusted and worth preserving, rather than assuming a clean rebuild is always right. Where existing logic is sound but fragile, we rebuild it on governed pipelines; where definitions conflict across teams, that gets resolved before anything is migrated.

What happens when a source system changes its schema?

Pipelines include schema and data-quality tests that catch a source change before it silently breaks a downstream dashboard — the pipeline fails loudly and alerts the team, rather than loading bad data. We also document expected schemas so a source-system change is a known, testable event instead of a surprise discovered inside a report.

Can this support an AI or machine learning initiative later?

Yes — that's part of why we build governed, well-documented pipelines rather than one-off scripts. Clean, labelled, lineage-tracked data is the actual prerequisite for most AI work; teams that skip straight to a model usually end up rebuilding their data foundation anyway once they discover the inputs aren't trustworthy.

Who maintains the pipelines after handover?

Either your team or ours, depending on internal capacity. We hand over documented, version-controlled pipelines that an internal data or engineering team can maintain directly; where that capacity doesn't exist yet, we offer an ongoing support arrangement covering monitoring, schema changes and new source onboarding.

How we work

A clear path from idea to impact

  1. STEP 1

    Define decisions and source systems

  2. STEP 2

    Model and govern the data

  3. STEP 3

    Build pipelines and reporting

  4. STEP 4

    Monitor quality and expand coverage

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