Senior Data & Analytics Consulting

Your data, made simpler. Your decisions, made easier.

You've invested in data and analytics — but somewhere along the way it all got complicated, and the answers still aren't there when you need them. Let us help you - Dorian Insights makes your data and your decisions simpler and more reliable. We guide leaders and decision-makers from complexity and doubt to clear, trusted answers.

The Problem

Somewhere along the way, data got complicated.

Most leaders we speak with aren't short on data. They're buried in complexity and short on answers they can trust.

The numbers don't agree

Dashboards contradict each other, reports arrive late, and every meeting starts with a debate about whose figures are right.

Every decision feels like a gamble

When you can't trust the data, you fall back on gut feel — and carry the quiet stress of hoping you guessed right.

It shouldn't be this complicated

You've paid for the tools and the people. A business that invests in data deserves simple, reliable answers — not more moving parts.

And the longer it stays this way, the more it costs: slow decisions, costly delays, missed opportunities — and competitors who move first.

What Success Looks Like

Imagine this becoming your default.

This is the shift from overwhelmed to empowered — from complicated to simple.

Your executive team walks into every strategy meeting with trusted, up-to-date answers — no debates about the numbers, just decisions.

Your data from every system is organized, unified, and AI-ready in a single central platform.

Your next strategic bet is informed by data your competitors simply don't have.

Your technical and business teams speak a common language — pulling in the same direction, talking to each other rather than at each other.

These outcomes aren't hypothetical. They're what our engagements are designed to deliver — and what your team keeps long after we're gone.

Your Guide

You know your business. We know how to make your data serve it.

You don't need another vendor selling a platform. You need a guide who has walked this road before — and who puts your team in the lead.

We understand how frustrating it is to invest heavily in analytics and still walk into the boardroom without answers you trust. We've sat on both sides of that table — inside Fortune 500 organizations and alongside smaller, scrappier teams — and we've seen that the problem is rarely the technology. It's the connection between data, decisions, and people — and the complexity that builds up around it. Our job is to make all of it simpler.

Dorian Insights distills two decades of experience — at Tier 1 consulting firms and inside multiple Fortune 500 clients, across strategy, data platforms, and AI — into a senior-principal practice. You work directly with the person doing the work: big-picture strategy and hands-on technical depth from the same chair, with none of the overhead.

And the goal is never dependence. We build durable, in-house capability — your team owns the results long after the engagement ends.

20+
Years guiding technology & data decisions
F500
Multiple Fortune 500 engagements delivered
Tier 1
Consulting firm leadership background
Multiple
Technology and data stacks (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery)
The Plan

Three simple steps to simpler data and easier decisions.

No mysterious methodology — simplicity starts with how we work. A clear path from where you are to where you want to be.

1

Schedule a call

A 30-minute conversation to assess where your analytics stand today — what's working, what isn't, and why.

2

Get your roadmap

Together we develop a tailored plan in plain language, tied to business outcomes — not a technology wish list.

3

Move forward with confidence

Kick off your data transformation with a senior guide beside you — and watch decisions get faster, easier, and better grounded.

Services

How we help you get there.

Every service exists for one reason: making your data — and the decisions that depend on it — simpler and more trustworthy. Most engagements draw from more than one, depending on what's currently blocking your progress.

AI / LLM integration & automation

AI that actually moves your needle

Bringing language models and AI into your analytical workflow — practically, accountably, and only where they genuinely help your business.

  • AI-ready data foundations
  • SQL and Python generation and review
  • Integration with automated testing
  • PR review and commentary
  • Documentation that improves LLM performance
  • Team upskilling & change management
Strategy

Decisions connected to data

Connecting metrics to business outcomes. Translating technical reality into language your leadership team can act on.

  • Decision & question framing
  • Non-technical and technical stakeholder communication
  • Business case development
  • Stakeholder alignment & communication
Operations & Team

Your effort turned into output

Structure, process, and software development best practices that turn your high-effort analytics team into a high-output one.

  • Team structure, hiring, and standards
  • Stakeholder communication & facilitation
  • Roadmaps, prioritization, and requirements
  • Cognitive offload for senior leaders
Platform & cost

A platform that scales, at a cost you can defend

Cloud data warehouse architecture, expansion, and rightsizing — built to grow with you without becoming a line item nobody can explain.

  • Cloud data platform architecture evaluation and implementation (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery)
  • AWS, Azure, and GCP implementation, evaluation, and usage within analytics workflows
  • Cost engineering and complexity management
  • Platform security & access design
Modeling & code quality

Numbers your whole company agrees on

Applying proven software engineering discipline to your analytics — so the answers are simple, consistent, tested, and maintainable.

  • Dimensional modeling & grain definition
  • dbt, SQL, and Python project audits and refactors
  • Cost profiling and query optimization
  • Testing frameworks, generation, and documentation
  • Scalable and manageable data pipeline design and implementation (e.g. DAGs)
Engagement

Three ways to work together.

You choose the shape that matches what you need now. Engagements can — and often do — change form as the work evolves.

Fractional retainer

Embedded senior presence

Ongoing committed hours — consistent senior leadership without a full-time hire.

  • Dedicated weekly hours reserved for your engagement
  • Predictable monthly investment, billed against committed hours
  • Highest priority access and continuity
  • Minimum 3-month term; preferred rates at longer terms
Best for ongoing leadership needs — data team leadership, platform stewardship, embedded principal architect.
Project-based

Defined scope, defined outcome

Time and materials against clearly defined deliverables and milestones.

  • Scope, milestones, acceptance criteria agreed upfront
  • Proposals include timeline and investment range
  • Scope adapts as findings surface — data work always surprises
  • Honest re-baselining when the work calls for it
Best for specific initiatives — platform builds, dbt overhauls, cost optimization, modernization roadmaps.
Advisory

Targeted, burst availability

Block of hours for architecture reviews, ad hoc analysis, or advisory calls.

  • Hourly or block-of-hours, purchased in advance or monthly
  • Typical block: 10–20 hours used over 4–8 weeks
  • No long-term commitment required
  • Scheduling subject to current availability
Best for targeted, flexible engagements — second opinions, decision support, short-form analysis.
Results

Teams that stopped guessing.

In every engagement the client's team is the hero — our job is to hand them the map. A few representative examples.

Major Airline
Snowflake · Near real-time flight analytics
Modeling Performance Executive

An operations team that now trusts its numbers: seven years and roughly fifteen billion rows of behavioral data modeled, transformed, and validated into a governed analytics layer they rely on daily.

Near-real-time turn analysis across 40+ event types, sourced from 20+ systems, supporting more than a thousand flights per day. Extensive tuning and cost/query plan work drove compute spend down materially.

Findings presented directly to the C-suite to inform scheduling, reliability, and revenue decisions.

Technology Consultancy
BigQuery · FP&A KPI Platform
Platform ML Operations

A leadership team running the whole business from numbers it trusts: a BigQuery-based analytics platform reconciling leads, revenue, profitability, and staffing across four core source systems.

A 200+ node modeled project, including capture of historical change over time. Up-to-the-hour KPIs delivered to leadership; in-database ML used to forecast revenue direction and inform staffing investment.

Major Entertainment Firm
Snowflake · Cost & Production Analytics
Production Governance Renegotiation

A production organization that renegotiated from a position of knowledge: a Snowflake-based analytics platform for episodic production, staffing, and cost analysis spanning multiple concurrent productions and third-party vendors.

Findings led to fundamental renegotiation of project structure, payroll, accounting, and operations with third-party firms — and drove re-examination of production locations, staffing duplication, and governance of accounting and data quality.

Schedule a Call

Ready to make your data — and your decisions — simpler?

Tell us what's gotten too complicated. In 30 minutes you'll know whether we can help and what the first step looks like — no pressure, no obligation.

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Practice Dorian Insights, L.L.C.
Focus Data · Analytics · Strategy · Architecture
Engagement Fractional · Project · Advisory