Startups and small businesses building on AI need solid data underneath it. Most can’t afford a full-time senior data hire. I work with founders and technical leads as their fractional data person — or on short gigs when you need a specific problem solved fast.
25 years · Cross-industry delivery · Melbourne, Australia
Your AI tool says it’s working. Your numbers don’t add up. Nobody on your team knows why. You don’t have a data person to ask.
That’s the gap. I fill it. Not as a big consulting firm. Not as a vendor. As your data person — the one who knows where things break and how to fix them before they cost you more.
Part-time, ongoing work as your senior data person. Architecture decisions, governance, and someone to call when something breaks — without the full-time salary.
Specific problem. Fixed scope. Fixed fee. Need your data cleaned up before you build on it? Need a data model for a new product? I go in, do the work, hand it back, done.
Tells you exactly where your data will break your AI project before you spend more money finding out the hard way. No login. You get a written report.
Take the assessmentFour engagements. Different sizes. Same problem — data wasn’t ready. Anonymised by request. Specifics on the call.
Early-stage platform with no data architecture. Built the transactional model, the analytics layer, and the full migration from the legacy system. Sole data architect from design through delivery.
Operational and reporting queries running on the same database. 50+ manual reports with no self-service. Built the OLAP layer, separated the concerns, migrated everything to Power BI.
Multiple disconnected systems. No unified view. An ML model waiting on data that wasn't clean. Built the integration layer and the ML-ready data model. Unified data live within the engagement.
Joined as sole architect at an early-stage startup. Built the full stack from scratch — database architecture, RESTful services, and internal systems. No delivery bench. No handoff.
Take the assessment. 8 minutes. It tells you what's there and what's missing. If everything is fine, you'll know that too.
Fixed-fee. Scoped before work starts. No retainer. No billing by the hour. You see the number before we begin and it doesn't move.
You get 25 years of cross-industry experience for the hours you actually need, not the salary of a junior hire working full-time. And you're not managing an employee.
Probably not. Founders who get the data foundation right early spend less fixing it later. The assessment will tell you what's actually relevant for your stage.
That's a gig. We scope it, fix a fee, I do the work, hand it back, and we're done.
That's most of the founders I work with. It's not a blocker. The assessment will tell you what shape it's in and what it would take to make it usable.
8 minutes. No login. You get a written report that tells you exactly where your data will break your AI project. If we’re a fit, I’ll invite you to a 30-minute call. No pitch. No deck. Just a direct conversation.
Archos Labs