DATA STRATEGY • GOVERNANCE • IMPLEMENTATION
We’re a boutique consulting firm specializing in data strategy and managed analytics — built by a team of engineers, analysts, and architects who care as much about the people behind the data as the data itself. Based in Chicago, with team members across the U.S. and U.K., we bring together deep technical expertise and a genuinely collaborative approach to every engagement.
We work with organizations across higher education advancement, healthcare provider services, manufacturing, and beyond — partners who are ready to unlock the full value of their data, not just store it.
Through practical, well-governed data programs, we help our clients achieve sustainable growth, and realize long-term success.
Industries We Serve
Manufacturing
Use intelligent, data-driven automation to support operations, enable predictive decision-making, and respond quickly to real-time challenges.
Health Care
Enable consistent metrics across practices with drill-down visibility into provider, clinic, and service-level performance, built on HIPAA-compliant architecture.
Higher Education
Improve fundraising effectiveness,
deepen meaningful engagement with constituents, and provide self-service access to trusted data.
We’re fundamentally data-centric. Rather than beginning with a platform or technical solution, we start with an organization’s strategic objectives and design the data capabilities required to achieve them — connecting strategy, data, and technology into a single, coherent approach.
Our teams are hired from both industry and management consulting, bringing rigorous, quantitative thinking across a wide range of analytical approaches, paired with a deep understanding of the industries in which their work must succeed. We’re technology-agnostic and grounded in proven frameworks, tailoring every engagement to each client’s unique goals, constraints, and operating environment.
No two organizations are the same — and neither are our solutions.
We help clients build data ecosystems that last — scalable, compliant, and built for the long term.
Our advisory methodology takes you from where you are today to where you need to be, through six stages: Strategy & Governance, Diagnostics, Definition, Design, Implementation, and Change Management.
Our Managed Analytic Solutions give Higher Education Advancement organizations timely, actionable insights — without the cost of building an internal analytics function. Smaller organizations get sophisticated analytics they couldn’t otherwise afford; larger organizations get relief from reporting backlogs and faster delivery.
Our flagship solution, Advancement Insights™, gives Advancement organizations the analytic capabilities of a dedicated data team — without the cost or complexity of building and maintaining one.
Insights
Data Storytelling: Assess Your Data
Part 2/3 of our series, “Decision-Oriented Data Storytelling”, co-authored with Sam Camarena
Data Storytelling: Know Your Audience
Part 1/3 of our series, “Decision-Oriented Data Storytelling”, co-authored with Sam Camarena
Build a Practical Data Governance Plan
Learn how data governance allows organizations to trust their data, use it confidently, and scale its impact over time.