Our process - How we run your data platform
We design, build, and operate your entire modern data stack so you get trusted, analytics-ready data without hiring a data team. It happens in three phases — a one-time setup, then an ongoing managed contract that keeps everything running and growing.
Onboard & Setup
We start by mapping your sources and the questions you need answered. In a short discovery we inventory every system that holds data — your product database, payment processor, CRM, ad platforms, support tooling — and agree on the metrics and reports that will define success.
From there we connect those sources with Airbyte and stand up your cloud infrastructure: object storage, a DuckLake catalog for the lakehouse, and Dagster for orchestration. Everything runs in your own cloud account, so you own the data and the bill stays transparent.
By the end of onboarding, raw data is landing on a schedule and we have a working foundation to build models on top of.
Included in this phase
- Source & goals discovery
- Airbyte connectors
- Object storage
- DuckLake catalog
- Dagster orchestration
- Raw data landing
Model & Deploy
With raw data flowing, we model it into something analysts and tools can trust. Using dbt on DuckDB, we build a layered transformation — staging models that clean and standardize each source, then marts that encode your business definitions for revenue, retention, funnels, and more.
Every model ships with data-quality tests for uniqueness, freshness, referential integrity, and the assumptions your metrics depend on. Dagster schedules the whole graph and tracks lineage, so you always know what ran, when, and whether it passed.
The output is a clean, documented set of analytics-ready tables, wired straight into the BI tool or notebooks your team already uses.
QuackyData had trustworthy revenue and retention models in production before we’d have finished writing the job description for a data engineer.
Operate & Evolve
A data platform is only as good as its last successful run. Under your monthly managed contract we watch pipeline health and data quality around the clock, catching schema changes, failed loads, and broken tests before they reach a dashboard.
When a source changes its API or a test starts failing, we fix it — you don’t get paged, you get a note saying it’s handled. We treat your stack as our on-call responsibility, not a ticket in a queue.
Your needs keep growing, so each month we extend the models: new sources, new metrics, and new questions from your roadmap, all delivered as part of the contract rather than a fresh project.
Included in this phase
- Monitoring. Automated checks on pipeline runs and data health, with alerts routed to us first so issues are resolved before you notice them.
- Maintenance. Connector upgrades, schema-drift handling, and test fixes are included — keeping every model accurate as your sources evolve.
- Roadmap. A standing cadence to add models and metrics each month, so your data coverage grows with the business instead of going stale.
Our values - Data you can build a business on
We run data platforms the way we’d want one run for us: dependable, transparent, and built to last. These principles guide every pipeline we operate.
- Reliable. Pipelines that run on schedule and recover gracefully. Monitoring and alerting are built in from day one, not bolted on after the first outage.
- Trustworthy. Every model is tested for freshness, uniqueness, and integrity, so the numbers in your dashboards match the numbers in reality.
- Transparent. Your infrastructure runs in your cloud account with open lineage and documentation. Nothing is a black box you can’t inspect or take with you.
- Pragmatic. We favor proven, open tools — Airbyte, dbt, DuckDB, Dagster — over novelty, and we right-size the stack to what your data actually needs.
- Responsive. When something breaks upstream, fixing it is our job. You hear about it once it’s resolved, not as a fire drill.
- Evolving. Your data needs change, so the platform should too. We add models and metrics every month as part of the contract.
Let’s build your data pipeline
Get in touch
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