Foundations

One number your CMO can defend
in any board meeting.

A reconciled data platform across Shopify, Klaviyo, Meta, GA4 and Stripe — built in 3–4 weeks, owned by your team from day one. Not a proof of concept. A production-grade warehouse for attribution, LTV/CAC, and the metrics your board cares about.

3–4 weeks·Fixed scope·Full handover
The problem

Most data platforms are built
for engineers, not businesses.

Data teams build pipelines. Dashboards get connected. Reports go out. But the business still does not trust the numbers — because nobody can explain where the data came from, how it was transformed, or why Tuesday’s figures do not match Wednesday’s.

The root cause is rarely the technology. It is the absence of a deliberate data platform — one designed around reliability, observability, and business outcomes rather than the fastest way to get data from A to B.

Data Platform Foundations fixes this. Not by adding more tools, but by building the right layer once — correctly.

Business impact

What changes when your
data platform works

Decisions backed by data, not instinct

When your data platform is unreliable, leadership defaults to gut feel. Foundations gives you a single source of truth that the entire business can trust — from the board to the analysts.

Dashboards that actually load

Fragile pipelines mean broken dashboards, stale numbers, and Monday morning fire drills. We build pipelines with observability and testing baked in, so your reporting is reliable by default.

AI and ML readiness without a rewrite

Most companies want to adopt AI but discover their data is too messy, siloed, or undocumented to feed a model. Foundations builds the clean, structured data layer that makes machine learning possible — without rebuilding everything later.

Reduced operational risk

Key-person dependencies, undocumented pipelines, and mystery transformations are liabilities. Every pipeline we deliver is tested, documented, and monitored. When someone leaves, the platform keeps running.

Faster time to insight

Instead of waiting weeks for engineering to pull data, your analysts and product teams get self-serve access to clean, well-modelled datasets. The time from question to answer shrinks from days to minutes.

Lower total cost of ownership

Badly architected pipelines waste compute, duplicate storage, and create downstream rework. We right-size your ingestion and transformation layer from the start — reducing cloud spend and engineering overhead.

Defensible under board scrutiny and vendor reviews

We design against the seven UK GDPR principles and the Data Protection Act 2018 — lawful-basis tagging, data minimisation, UK/EU residency, and right-to-erasure-ready models. Your platform passes ICO scrutiny, enterprise vendor security reviews, and DPIA requirements without a retrofit.

What’s included

Delivered in 3–4 weeks.
Production-ready on day one.

Is this right for you?

You need Foundations if…

01

Meta, GA4, and Shopify never agree on revenue or ROAS

02

Your CMO is asking why blended CAC went up and you can’t defend the answer

03

You have data in twelve places and twelve different ‘sources of truth’

04

Customer LTV changes depending on who pulls the report

05

Your last warehouse quote was £40k and four months

06

Mixpanel/Amplitude usage data doesn’t reconcile with Stripe revenue

Let’s build your
data foundation.

A 30-minute conversation to understand your current stack, where the gaps are, and whether Foundations is the right starting point.