Productized engagement

How healthy is the platform your business runs on?

Pipelines that fail quietly, quality nobody trusts, costs nobody can explain, ownership nobody owns. The broadest review we offer: the full platform — reliability, quality, cost, governance — with a risk register ranked by blast radius and a remediation roadmap.

2–3 weeks fixed timeline, agreed up front
Remote, fixed scope delivery format
Risk register + remediation roadmap what you leave with

The engagement

Data Platform Health Check, in detail

01

Who it is for

Organizations whose data platform grew by accident: incidents are frequent, trust in data is low, and nobody can say where the money goes or who owns what.

02

The problem it solves

Platform rot is a compounding tax: every brittle pipeline adds on-call load, every quality gap erodes trust, every untracked cost line hides waste. The health check makes the rot visible — ranked by blast radius, not vibes.

03

What's included

  • Pipeline audit: reliability, failure modes, retry and backfill behavior, SLAs
  • Data-quality posture: contracts, tests, incident history, trust signals
  • Freshness and latency review against business needs
  • Cost visibility: where the money goes across storage, compute, and tooling
  • Governance and ownership mapping
  • Risk register ranked by blast radius, plus a sequenced remediation roadmap
04

Deliverables

  • Written platform health report
  • Risk register ranked by blast radius
  • Sequenced remediation roadmap your team can execute
  • Read-out session with leadership and engineering
05

Typical duration

Two to three weeks, fixed scope. Architecture, code, data-flow, and operations review across the estate — the deep end of diagnosis, matched to the breadth of the platform.

06

What happens afterward

This is the master key to engineering revenue. It converts into Data Pipelines & Platform rebuilds, Lakehouse Engineering, an embedded pod of two to five engineers in your rituals, or a platform partnership with quarterly roadmaps. Treat the read-out as the start of the build conversation.

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Start free, then go deep

Our Data Platform Health self-assessment is a free self-assessment you can finish in minutes. This engagement is the next level: we get inside your environment and produce findings your team can execute.

Start here

See the whole platform, honestly ranked.

Thirty minutes with an architect to scope the review. Then a risk register and a roadmap — not a deck.