One to two weeks, fixed price, written findings. We read your schema, your access patterns and your bill, and tell you what to keep, what to move, how your events and records get to somewhere you can query them, and what that costs to build and to run.
1–2 weeks
$4k–$8k
Most data platform work starts with the same uncertainty: the business wants answers the current system cannot give, and nobody is sure whether that means a new index, a warehouse, or a migration. A review settles that before anyone commits to a build. It is the smallest useful thing we sell and where most of our larger projects begin.
Teams on DynamoDB, often behind AppSync or Amplify, whose reporting has turned into exports and scripts
Companies about to hire a first data engineer who want the platform decided before the hire starts
Teams whose analytics bill or warehouse bill has grown faster than their usage
Anyone asked where their users' behaviour data lives who does not like the answer
The data you have. Tables, keys, indexes, item sizes and growth, read from the account with read-only access
How it is used. The queries and access patterns that matter, including the ones the business wants and cannot run today
What it costs. The current bill by store and by workload, and where it goes as you grow
How it moves. Whatever already carries data between systems: streams, exports, ETL jobs, third-party tools
A report of ten to twenty pages, written to be read by an engineer and understood by a founder
For each data store: keep it, reshape it or move it, and why
A target design for analytics or reporting, sized to your volume, with two options where the tradeoff is real
A build estimate for each option and the monthly running cost at today's volume and at ten times it
The first three things to do, in order, whoever does them
A one-hour call to go through it and answer questions
It is not a sales document. If the answer is one new index and a scheduled export, the report says that.
Tell us about your current environment and goals. We'll review the details and respond with a proposed engagement structure and timeline.
Typical response time: 1–2 business days.
Prices and timelines are estimates for typical engagements, not offers. Scope, price and terms are set in a written agreement after we understand your situation. Terms of use.