Small-business-first data consultancy · Ottawa
Data work, sized to fit.
We're independently employed data professionals bringing years of experience in analytics, information management, reporting and process improvement to small businesses, non-profits and independent operators. We build what your problem needs. No more, no less.
Opening to clients soon
Why we do this
Small business, helping small business.
Most small organizations sit in a gap. A full-time analyst is expensive, and few of them need one all week. The large consulting firms that could help price and scope for enterprises, so a small organization usually gets an oversized solution it can't sustain, or no answer at all.
Independent data practitioners feel the same pressure from the other side. To make the work pay, most of them have to chase the big contracts.
We're a group of independently employed data professionals who chose to fill that gap. We believe data and its benefits should be accessible, and we want to support the small, independent operators who make up so much of our economy. With no shareholders or sales quotas behind us, we can size each job to fit you, and spend our time on data work we're genuinely passionate about.
What you won't pay for
- A retainer for hours you rarely use
- Licences for a platform you'll never grow into
- A bigger project than the problem needs
What you get
- An experienced practitioner matched to the job
- A fixed scope, a fixed price and an end date
- Something you can run yourself afterwards
Calibrated, not maximal
We size the work to the problem. A shared spreadsheet that works beats a data warehouse nobody maintains.
Plain about trade-offs
You get the cost, the effort and the limits up front. If an off-the-shelf tool will do, we'll say so.
Your data stays yours
We don't resell, repurpose or quietly keep what you share with us. Privacy is part of the design, not an add-on.
Built to be handed over
Everything we build comes with documentation you can follow, so it keeps working after we leave.
What we do
Practical data work for organizations without a data team.
Our practitioners bring years of professional experience in data, IT and information management. We match each engagement to the person whose background fits it.
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Data analytics
Turn the numbers you already collect into answers: who your best customers are, where money leaks out, and what's changing.
e.g. which services actually make you money -
Information management
Organize, document and protect the information spread across spreadsheets, inboxes and shared drives, so people can find it and it's handled responsibly.
e.g. one tidy client list from four sources -
Reporting
Replace the monthly copy-and-paste ritual with reports and dashboards that update themselves and answer the questions you actually ask.
e.g. weekly sales summary, no manual steps -
Process optimization
Map how work really flows, find the steps that waste time or invite errors, and streamline them with tools you already have.
e.g. intake form feeding a searchable log, no retyping
Weighing a software vendor's proposal? We'll also give an independent second opinion on what you need and what you're being oversold.
How an engagement goes
One level at a time.
Like a boat climbing the locks, each step is small, deliberate and finished before the next one starts.
Talk
A free conversation about the problem, in your words. No pitch deck.
Scope
A short written plan with a fixed size, a fixed price and what's out of scope.
Build
Work in small pieces you can see and try as we go.
Hand over
Documentation and a walkthrough, so you own and can run what we built.
Contact
We're not taking on work just yet.
We're setting up the practice now and will open to our first clients soon. When we do, this is where you'll find out how to reach us.
Contact details coming soon