Senior Data & Analytics Consulting

Most organizations invest heavily in data. Few get the results they're paying for.

A technology consultancy delivering senior-level expertise at the intersection of data, technology, and business strategy. We help leadership teams turn analytical investment into trusted decisions, AI-ready foundations, and the strategic advantage of knowing things their competitors don't.

What's Possible

What if these became the default?

Moving from theory to practice.

What if your executive team had trusted, up-to-date answers every morning — before walking into strategy or operational meetings?

What if your data from all systems was organized, unified, and AI-ready in a single central platform?

What if the next strategic bet your company makes was informed by data your competitors simply don't have?

What if technical and business teams spoke 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.

The Practice

Data, technology, and business strategy.

Senior-level expertise across all three focus areas, delivered by a single principal with two decades of technology leadership, data platform, and business strategy experience.

Dorian Insights is a technology consultancy at the intersection of data and analytics, business strategy, and technology architecture. Josh Andrews is a principal with two decades of experience gained at Tier 1 consulting firms and inside multiple Fortune 500 clients.

The practice draws on deep, current platform work across cloud data warehouses, AI/LLM services, dbt, and the broader modern data stack. Most engagements span more than one focus area: strategy questions surface platform questions, modeling questions surface team and process questions, and so on.

Integration of LLMs and AI into analytical work is current and practical. Throughout, the emphasis is on enabling your existing team — building durable, in-house capability that outlasts the engagement.

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

Five areas of focus.

Most engagements draw from more than one. The right combination depends on where you are in the lifecycle and what's currently blocking progress.

AI / LLM integration & automation

Practical, accountable AI integration

Bringing language models and AI into the analytical workflow — practically, accountably, and only where they actually move the needle. The technology cannot supply its own foundation; we build the data, the structure, and the judgment around it that make it reliable.

  • AI-ready data foundations
  • LLM-augmented analysis & exploration
  • Workflow & pipeline automation
  • Pilot design & ROI evaluation
  • Realistic capability assessment
  • Team upskilling & change management
Platform & cost

Cloud warehouse architecture and optimization

Cloud data warehouse architecture, expansion, and rightsizing — built to scale without becoming a line item nobody can defend.

  • Cloud data platform architecture (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery)
  • Pipelines, modeling, and governance
  • Cost profiling and query optimization
  • Platform security & access design
Modeling & code quality

The data model as a business contract

The data model is the contract between technical work and business decisions. We treat it that way.

  • Dimensional modeling & grain definition
  • dbt & SQL project audits and refactors
  • Testing frameworks & documentation
  • SCD design & historical capture
Operations & team

Turning effort into output

Structure, process, and communication that turn a 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
Strategy & executive narrative

Connecting metrics to outcomes

Connecting metrics to business outcomes. Translating technical reality into language a board will act on.

  • Decision & question framing
  • Full-stack analysis through executive deck
  • Business case development
  • Stakeholder alignment & communication
Engagement

Three ways to work together.

Pick 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 leadership without a full-time hire.

  • Dedicated weekly hours reserved for the 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.
Selected Work

Representative engagements.

Examples of productive partnerships across industries.

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

Hands-on technical leadership: modeled, transformed, and validated seven years and roughly fifteen billion rows of behavioral data into a governed analytics layer trusted by the operations team.

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 down compute spend 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

Designed, built, and expanded a BigQuery-based analytics platform driving all business operations — leads, revenue, profitability, and staffing reconciled 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 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. Drove re-examination of production locations, staffing duplication, and governance of accounting and data quality.

Inquiries

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