Workload & cost profile
What actually runs, how often, on what volumes, and what it costs today — drawn from query logs and schedules, not from the architecture diagram someone drew two years ago.
The flagship engagement
Ten days to a plan
your CFO can approve.
A fixed-fee, fixed-scope assessment that turns “we should probably fix our data platform” into a costed, sequenced, de-risked plan — whether the answer is a new platform, a migration, a model lifecycle or an agent. No open-ended discovery. No day-rate meter running. A number, a target architecture, and an honest recommendation — in 10 business days.
- 10 days
- Fixed duration, from kickoff to handover
- $14,400 - $24,000
- Fixed fee, agreed before we start
- Credited
- The fee is credited against a production build if you proceed
What you get
Five deliverables. All yours to keep.
Everything below is written down and handed over, whether or not you engage us for the build. The assessment is useful on its own — even if the answer is “not yet.”
Target architecture
The Databricks design: Unity Catalog model, compute topology, ingestion pattern, security boundary and network layout, drawn to the level your architects can actually review.
Cost model
Modeled run cost on Databricks for your real workloads, with the assumptions exposed, so finance is comparing like for like and not a vendor’s best-case slide.
Risk register
The things most likely to derail the migration — technical and political — ranked, with the mitigation for each. The risky slice we would prove first is named here.
Sequenced implementation plan
The phased path from here to cutover, with fixed-fee stages, so you can fund the next step without signing a blank six-figure statement of work.
An honest recommendation
Including “don’t, this year” if that is the right answer. We put it in writing. Our reputation is worth more than one engagement.
The ten days
No mystery about how the time is spent.
One senior architect and one senior engineer, focused, for two working weeks. You get a short check-in at the end of each phase, not a black box that emerges with a deck.
Two senior people
Fixed fee
Your data stays put
Deliverables are yours
Understand the estate
Query logs, job schedules, lineage, volumes and spend. We build the real workload profile.
Days 1–4Design the target
Unity Catalog model, compute, ingestion, security and cost envelope — reviewed with your architects.
Days 5–8Cost, risk and plan
We model the cost, rank the risk, and sequence the implementation into fixed-fee phases.
Days 9–10Handover
A working session, not a slide read-out. You leave able to defend the plan to your board.
Day 10Where it sits
A ladder, not a leap.
The assessment is step two. Each step is useful on its own and each one earns the next — you never have to bet big to find out whether we are any good.
Step 01
Architecture review
Sixty minutes with a senior architect. A target-state sketch and the three changes worth making first.
You are here
Step 02
Data & AI Assessment
The fixed-fee engagement on this page. Profile, design, cost, risk and plan in ten business days.
Step 03
Proof of concept
One real workload, end to end, in production-shaped code with reconciliation against the source.
Step 04
Production build
The full migration or platform build, in increments, alongside your engineers.
Straight answers
The questions we always get.
What do you need from us to run it?
Read access to query logs and schedules, time with the people who know the estate, and a working session or two. We can operate inside your environment — your data does not leave your cloud for us to do this.
Why fixed fee and not day rate?
Because a day-rate discovery has no incentive to end. Fixed fee means we carry the risk of scoping it wrong, not you, and it forces us to be disciplined about what actually matters in ten days.
Is the fee really credited if we proceed?
Yes. If you engage us for the production build, the assessment fee is credited against it. The assessment is designed to earn the next step, not to be a profit center on its own.
What if the answer is “don’t migrate”?
Then we write that down and explain why. Sometimes the licenses do not renew for two years and the smart move is to wait; sometimes the estate needs cleanup first. You still keep every deliverable, and you have saved yourself a far more expensive mistake.
Start here
A free 60-minute architecture review
Bring your current architecture, data volumes and the workloads that hurt. You leave with a target-state diagram on Databricks, the three changes that would cut the most cost or latency, and an honest answer on whether you need us at all.
No slide deck. No procurement process. One senior architect on the call.