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Data Engineering.
Pipelines, warehouses, the unglamorous plumbing that makes everything else work.
· dbt · Snowflake · BigQuery · Airflow · Postgres
Quietly engineered intelligence — for the way you actually work.
A bespoke lab shipping automation, custom AI agents and analytics for SMEs and operations leaders. Engineering-first, accountable, and yours from day one — no theatre, no slop, no decks of buzzwords.
Technologies we work with— a working sample. We are tech-agnostic and learn fast.
· CloudAWSAzureGCP· Data & analyticsSnowflakeDatabricksdbtFivetranPostgresSupabasePower BITableauMetabaseStreamlit· AI & MLPythonPyTorchClaudeOpenAIHugging FaceMLflowpgvector· Automationn8nTemporalZapierMake· Product & stackVercelFastAPIStripeHubSpotOutsetaHumanitixPassKit
· CloudAWSAzureGCP· Data & analyticsSnowflakeDatabricksdbtFivetranPostgresSupabasePower BITableauMetabaseStreamlit· AI & MLPythonPyTorchClaudeOpenAIHugging FaceMLflowpgvector· Automationn8nTemporalZapierMake· Product & stackVercelFastAPIStripeHubSpotOutsetaHumanitixPassKit
01Practice
Five lines of work · one standard02
Analytics & BI.
Dashboards your team will actually open. Modelled on the metrics that matter.
· Looker · Metabase · Power BI · Tableau
03
Data Science & ML.
Forecasting, segmentation, recommendation, anomaly detection — applied where it pays back.
· Python · PyTorch · XGBoost · MLflow
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AI Agents & LLMs.
Custom copilots, document automation, retrieval and agentic workflows. Evals from day one.
· Claude · GPT · LangGraph · pgvector
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Workflow Automation.
Connecting the tools you already pay for. Less manual, more margin.
· n8n · Temporal · Zapier · Make
“If we cannot measure it, we will not ship it. Evals from day one — that’s the whole job.”
— lab principle 02
02Process
Four stages · fixed price · fixed scope01/ 04
Discovery.
Half-day deep dive. We learn your business, not just your data. Output: a sharp brief.
02/ 04
Mapping.
What is worth building, what is not, and the order of operations. Fixed scope, fixed price.
03/ 04
Build.
Iterative shipping. Production-grade from week one, with weekly reviews and you in the loop.
04/ 04
Handoff.
Documentation, evaluation harness and team training. We make ourselves replaceable.
03 — The Lab
A small lab. One operator per project. Bespoke by default.
We are deliberately undersized — set up so the person you brief is the person who ships. No account managers, no juniors learning on your dime, no agency overhead.
Most of our clients are operators, not engineers. We translate, then build, then make ourselves replaceable. Code, models, prompts, evals — yours, in your repos, on your infra from week one.
Lab principles
01
Boring infrastructure.
Production-grade tools, no toys.
02
Evaluations from day one.
If we cannot measure it, we will not ship it.
03
You own everything.
In your repos, on your infra, owned outright.
04
Honest scoping.
We will tell you when something is not worth building.
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Replaceable on purpose.
Documentation and training are the deliverable.
04 — FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
Most of our clients are operators, not engineers. We translate, then ship.
Four to twelve weeks, fixed scope and fixed price after a paid discovery. Retainers available after the first project.
Sydney · remote-first. We work to your timezone and meet on-site for kickoff and handoff where useful.
Always. Handoff documentation, runbooks and live training are baked into every engagement.
Yes. We will lead with our own templates if it speeds things up.
You do. Code, models, prompts, evals, dashboards — all yours, in your repos, on your infra. Tools and frameworks we bring with us stay ours; you get a perpetual licence to keep using them.
05 — Get in touch
Send a brief. We will reply by tomorrow.
Rough scope, timeline, anything you have. We answer within one working day with a calendar link or a polite no.
· tom@datailabs.co
· Sydney · remote-first · AU + US-West-Coast hours
· NDA / DPA on request