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Data foundations that analysts trust and AI teams can build on

We build modern data platforms on Snowflake, Databricks, and BigQuery — with dbt for transformation, Airflow or Dagster for orchestration, and the governance and observability your auditors and ML teams will both ask for.

The Stack

Modern data engineering — ingestion to activation

Ingestion & CDC

Fivetran, Airbyte, Debezium, Kafka — batch and change-data-capture from operational stores into the warehouse with schema evolution.

Warehouses & Lakehouses

Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks (Delta), Redshift, Iceberg on S3. We pick by workload, cost profile, and existing stack — not by vendor allegiance.

Transformation with dbt

Version-controlled SQL transformations, tests, documentation, lineage. The 'analytics engineering' layer that makes data trustworthy.

Orchestration

Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect. Idempotent pipelines, SLAs, alerting, and asset-aware retries. No more 3am 'did the job run?' Slacks.

Streaming & Real-Time

Kafka, Flink, ksqlDB, Materialize. Sub-second analytics where it matters; nightly batch where it doesn't.

Semantic Layer & BI

Cube, dbt Semantic Layer, or LookML. One metric definition, every tool. Plus dashboards in Looker, Metabase, Superset, or Power BI.

How We Work

Audit-first, governance-baked-in, observability before the CFO calls

01

Audit the current state

Map sources, downstream consumers, broken pipelines, and the metrics people actually use. Most data projects fail because nobody mapped this first.

02

Architecture decision

Warehouse vs lakehouse, batch vs streaming, build vs buy ingestion. Decisions documented with cost models — not vendor brochures.

03

Build the foundation

Ingestion, raw layer, staging models, marts. dbt project structured for hundreds of models. Tests and lineage from day one.

04

Governance & access

Row/column-level security, PII tagging, masking policies, audit logs. Compliance with DPDP, HIPAA, SOC2 baked in — not bolted on.

05

Observability

Data quality tests, freshness SLAs, anomaly detection on volume and distribution. You learn about broken pipelines before the CFO does.

06

Activate

Reverse ETL (Hightouch, Census) to push enriched data back to Salesforce, HubSpot, ad platforms. Feature stores for the ML team.

Use Cases

What teams actually do with the platforms we build

Sales & Marketing

Unified Customer 360

Stitch product, billing, support, and marketing data into a single customer view — then push it back to GTM tools.

Product

Product Analytics

Event pipelines (Snowplow, Segment) into the warehouse. Funnels, retention, and A/B analysis on first-party data you control.

Finance

Financial Reporting

Audit-ready financial models in dbt. Drift-free metrics across BI tools. Faster month-end close.

ML & AI

AI-Ready Data

Feature stores, vector embeddings, and training datasets engineered for repeatability. The foundation real ML teams ask for.

Where We Start

Engagement shapes we deliver most often

Modern Data Stack Implementation

Stand up the full stack — Snowflake/Databricks/BigQuery + Fivetran/Airbyte + dbt + Airflow/Dagster + Metabase/Looker. Production-ready in 6–10 weeks.

Lakehouse Migration

Move from legacy warehouses or Hadoop clusters to a Delta/Iceberg lakehouse. Cost reduction, separation of storage and compute, ACID guarantees.

dbt Project Bootstrap

Set up a dbt project structured for scale — staging/intermediate/marts, tests, docs, CI, and Slim CI. Train your team to own it.

Streaming Pipelines

Kafka + Flink/ksqlDB pipelines for fraud detection, real-time personalization, or operational analytics. Exactly-once semantics, ordered processing.

Reverse ETL & Activation

Push warehouse-derived audiences and traits back to Salesforce, HubSpot, Iterable, Braze, ad platforms. Close the loop from analytics to action.

Data Governance Hardening

PII classification, masking policies, lineage, access reviews, audit logs. SOC 2 / DPDP / HIPAA controls implemented and documented.

Common Questions

Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery?
Snowflake for SQL-first analytics and predictable workloads. Databricks when you need a unified lakehouse with serious Spark / ML. BigQuery when you're already on GCP or running petabyte-scale analytic queries. We benchmark on your actual workloads — not vendor TPC slides — before recommending.
Do we still need ETL tools, or is dbt enough?
dbt is for transformation (T in ELT) — modeling, testing, documenting. You still need ingestion (Fivetran/Airbyte/Debezium) and orchestration (Airflow/Dagster/Prefect). dbt complements the stack, doesn't replace it.
What's the ROI on a data platform rebuild?
Hard ROI: 40–70% reduction in 'why is this dashboard wrong?' fire drills, 30–50% faster time-to-insight for new questions, and the data foundation you need before any serious AI/ML work. Most teams see payback inside 9 months.
How long before the team is self-sufficient?
Typical engagement is 12–16 weeks to production, with concurrent enablement so your analytics engineers own the dbt project from day one. We hand over docs, runbooks, and CI by week 8.
What about real-time?
Most 'real-time' requests are actually 'fresh-enough' (5–15 min lag is fine). For true streaming — fraud, personalization, OT — Kafka + Flink or Materialize. We size correctly to avoid the streaming complexity tax when batch will do.

Domains we've shipped in

BFSIHealthcareEdTechRetailManufacturingSaaS

Stuck on a data platform that's slow, brittle, or expensive?

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