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Data Consultancy

Your data has the answers. Our engineers come in and put them to work.

Overstand isn't like other consultants. We don't tell you what to do — we actually help you do it. Experienced data and software engineers, embedded in your team, piecing together your data picture and driving your business forward.

NASA
Meta
LinkedIn
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
U.S. Army
World Food Programme
Credit Suisse
NHS
Palantir
Norwegian Customs Service

Organizations our team has helped with in data & software

Backed by Y Combinator

The data is already there. The picture is what's missing.

You've got the data — you just need someone to put it to work for you.

Data scattered across systems

CRM, warehouse, spreadsheets, the docs folder, the analytics tool no one trusts. Each system has part of the answer. Nobody has the time to stitch them together.

Knowledge stuck in a few heads

The "how things actually work" lives with the two people who've been there forever. It's not written down — and even if you tried, it would fill a book nobody would read.

Questions no one has stepped back to ask

When you live in the system every day, certain questions become invisible — too obvious, too awkward, or too far outside your usual lane. The most useful questions are usually the ones nobody's framed yet.

We don't write a deck. We write code, in your repo, with your team.

We come in hands-on. We work in your repos, on your stack, with your team. We ship things. Then we leave the work better than we found it.

Map the data picture

We start by piecing together what data you actually have, where it lives, and what it can answer. Not as a slide deck — as a working understanding that becomes the foundation for everything we build next.

  • Inventory the systems, the schemas, and the gaps
  • Pull on the threads your team didn't have time to follow
  • Surface the questions worth answering — and the ones nobody's asked
CRM exports
Warehouse
Product DB
Support tickets
Spreadsheets
Vendor feeds
Call notes
Email archives
Docs / PDFs

A working data picture

What's connected, what's missing, what's answerable today, and what's worth investing in.

Prototype

Voice-of-customer search across 4 years of support tickets and call transcripts

Pipeline

Daily refresh from Salesforce + Stripe + product analytics into a single deal-health view

Internal tool

LLM-powered classifier that routes inbound requests to the right team in <5s

Build the things that prove what's possible

Once we know the picture, we ship. Pipelines, prototypes, internal tools, AI features — whatever the question demands. Working software that runs in your environment, not architecture diagrams.

  • Modern AI stack — LLMs and embeddings where they earn their keep
  • Good engineering hygiene — versioned, tested, documented, deployed
  • Built on your infrastructure — your accounts, your security perimeter

Hand off, don't hold on

The work is yours. We pair with the people who'll own it after we leave, document what matters, and make sure the systems we build can be extended by the team that has to live with them.

  • Pairing built into the engagement, not bolted on at the end
  • Documentation that explains why, not just what
  • A clean exit — your team running the work, not a permanent dependency
1

Discovery

Map the data, agree the goals, scope the work.

2

Embed

Build alongside your team — pairing, shipping, iterating.

3

Hand off

Transfer ownership, document the system, step out.

Three things, in the same room, at the same time.

Plenty of teams have one or two of these. The work happens when all three are on the table together.

Data + product chops

We've actually built and shipped data products end-to-end — pipelines, models, AI features, the unsexy plumbing — at the kind of scale where things break in interesting ways. So we can build, not just recommend.

Outsider perspective

We get to ask the questions you've stopped asking — because they're too obvious, too awkward, or too far outside someone's lane. The questions that get past "well, that's just how it works around here."

Your insider knowledge

None of it works without your team. They know how things actually run — the workarounds, the politics, the quirks of the data. We pair with them to turn that knowledge into something the whole organization can use.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about what an Overstand consultancy engagement looks like.

Want to see what Overstand looks like as a product? Start with our home page.

See what Overstand Engineers can do for you

Tell us what you're trying to figure out. We'll set up a 30-minute call — no pitch deck, no commitment.