SERVICE 06 · DATA AND PLATFORM

The data layer your AI actually needs

Pipelines, warehouses, and observability with lineage and monitoring designed in, delivered in phases you can stop between.

  • Readiness scored first
  • Phased, stoppable delivery
  • Lineage and monitoring built in

What we build

Four layers, scored before they are built

Ingestion, a warehouse sized to the company, lineage, and monitoring. Each phase has a named outcome and a stopping point where the work still stands on its own.

01

Ingestion and transformation pipelines

Incremental, idempotent loads from ERP, CRM, event streams, and files, with schema contracts at every ingestion boundary.

How we prove it Named tables pass freshness and volume tests on a schedule before the phase is accepted.

02

Warehouse or lakehouse at your size

PostgreSQL or a managed warehouse for most companies of 50 to 500 people. A lakehouse only when your own numbers force the question.

How we prove it The readiness audit shows the sizing case in your data, not in a vendor deck.

03

Lineage you can trace

Every number in a report or an agent retrieval traces back to its source system, so you can trust what an agent reads.

How we prove it Lineage is traceable end to end for a named metric as written acceptance evidence.

04

Monitoring and alerting

Freshness and volume tests on critical tables, with alerting on test failure rather than on dashboard silence.

How we prove it Alerting is proven by a deliberate induced failure before handover.

Named stack
PostgreSQL Snowflake BigQuery dbt Fivetran Airbyte Apache Airflow Kafka Python SQL AWS GCP Azure Docker Looker Power BI pgvector n8n
scored in the readiness audit before anything is built
6 dimensions
unblocked by phase 1, scoped to a quarter or less
1 use case
written acceptance evidence per phase: tests, retrieval, lineage, alerting
4 checks
AI proofs of concept reach production (IDC). Data readiness is the top blocker.
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Use cases

Where a governed data layer pays for itself

Every one of these starts with a named consumer for the data. A warehouse with no consumer is a monthly bill.

  • Consolidated financial reporting

    GL, budgets, and WIP from an ERP land in one reporting layer, so period close produces a report instead of a spreadsheet hunt.

    Finance · Multi-entity · ERPNext
  • Retrieval layer for agents

    Clean, fresh, access-controlled tables an agent can read without a human exporting a CSV first.

    AI pilots · RAG · Support
  • Continuous ledger audit

    Daily pulls from accounting systems feed rule and AI checks that flag categorization errors and unreconciled items early.

    Accounting firms · Bookkeeping
  • Multi-source ingestion

    Scrape or pull from many sites and APIs, normalize, deduplicate, and enrich records into one system of record.

    Recruiting · Research · Sales
  • Operational dashboards

    A parallel analytics layer over operational databases, so reporting never slows the live application.

    Logistics · SaaS · Operations
  • PII classification and masking

    Classification first, then masking and access controls in the pipeline, then a data map you can forward to counsel.

    Healthcare · Finance · SLED
  • Pipeline repair and hardening

    Tests, alerting, and idempotent loads added to pipelines we did not build, when repair beats rebuild.

    Inherited stacks · Mid-flight pilots
  • Scored intelligence feeds

    News, market, or lead signals collected continuously, deduplicated, scored, and stored where the team already works.

    Sales · BD · Market research

Client stories

Data layers already doing the job

Each one replaced a spreadsheet, a manual scan, or a periodic review with a pipeline that runs on a schedule and tells someone when it breaks.

How we ship

Phased, tested, and owned by you

Every phase leaves with the same four things defined before the build starts: a score, a stopping point, acceptance evidence, and a data map.

01 Readiness

Scored before anything is built

The audit produces a scored map across 6 dimensions, each with the specific finding behind the score. You get the map whether or not you build with us.

Completeness
What is missing, and does it matter for the use case.
Freshness
How stale is the data at the point an agent would read it.
Lineage
Can you trace a number back to its source.
02 Phasing

Each phase can be the last

Data work is where budgets disappear if nobody closes the scope. We phase it.

Named outcome
Every phase targets 1 use case with a fixed scope, not a platform.
Stopping point
Work delivered so far stands on its own. You decide at each boundary.
Honest answer
If phase 2 can wait 2 quarters, we say so.
03 Acceptance

How you will know it worked

"The pipeline runs" is not acceptance evidence. These are.

Scheduled tests
Named tables passing freshness and volume tests, on a schedule.
Graded retrieval
A specific query or agent retrieval returning correct results against a graded set.
Induced failure
Alerting proven by a deliberate induced failure.
04 Data map

Where the data physically sits

The data map is a deliverable, not an internal document. If you cannot forward it, it is not finished.

Your accounts
Pipelines and storage run in your cloud accounts, under your billing, unless you ask otherwise.
Scoped access
Engineering access is from Lahore, Pakistan, scoped per environment, logged, and revoked at exit.
PII handling
PII handling: classification first, then masking and access controls at the pipeline level, then a written data map you can hand to counsel or to a customer’s security reviewer.

What you own

Everything, in your cloud Pipelines, warehouse, models, and tests run in your accounts under your billing. Access is revoked at exit.
The map and the score The readiness audit and the data map are deliverables you keep whether or not you build with us.

WHAT WE WILL NOT BUILD

  • Build a warehouse before there is a named use case for it. A warehouse with no consumer is a monthly bill.
  • Migrate a platform because the current one is unfashionable.
  • Move regulated data across a boundary we should not move it across.
  • Ship a pipeline without tests and alerting. An unmonitored pipeline is a future incident with a delay fuse.
For U.S. SLED prime contractors

Reporting and analytics layers, behind the prime.

For SLED scope under NAICS 518210, we build governed analytics layers as your subcontractor, with PII handled to standard, never facing the agency.

NAICS 518210 541512 541511
See SLED Subcontracting

NDA-first, subcontract-only. We work behind the prime, under your brand. We do not pursue prime contracts and we never face the agency.

Parallel analytics layer. ELT runs without altering operational databases, so live applications stay fast.

Lineage you can show. Transparent data lineage, tested pipelines, and strict handling of personally identifiable information.

FAQ

The questions you were going to ask

Straight answers about data work and what it will and will not fix. We answer the hard ones first.

Ask the hard one

How long before this unblocks anything?

Phase 1 is scoped to unblock 1 named use case. If the audit says that takes longer than a quarter, you hear it in the audit, before you commit to delivery.

Where does our data go?

Your cloud accounts, your billing. Access from Lahore, scoped and logged, revoked at exit.

Will this actually fix our AI problem?

The audit answers that specifically, including the case where data is not your blocker and something else is. That answer is worth the audit on its own.

Can you fix pipelines you did not build?

Yes, and sometimes the recommendation is repair rather than rebuild, which is the less profitable answer for us.

Warehouse or lakehouse?

Usually a warehouse at your size. We size to the company, not to the vendor deck.

Start the conversation

Scoreyourdata
before you build on it

Tell us the AI use case that is stalled. We will tell you whether data is the reason.

30 minutes the engineer who leads delivery no deck, no pitch