Your entire data function. Built, handed over, done.
Acta builds the data capability your consumer business actually needs — integrations, warehouse, ETL, metric trees, board-grade reporting and LLM readiness — in months, not years. You own the output.
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Building a data team is expensive, slow, and usually wrong.
By the time you've hired five people, scoped a stack, picked vendors and shipped your first dashboards, your competitors have already made the next three decisions. There's a faster way in.
| Role | Base salary | Time to productivity |
|---|---|---|
| Data Lead | £110k | 3–4 mo |
| Data Engineer | £90k | 3 mo |
| Analytics Engineer | £80k | 3 mo |
| Commercial Analyst | £65k | 2 mo |
| BI Developer | £70k | 2 mo |
| Year-1 cost | ~£540k fully loaded · 6 mo to first output | |
Six capabilities. One coherent data function.
Built on the Activity Schema — a foundation that makes every later question (analytics, AI, attribution) cheaper to answer.
Integrations & Data Sources
Every system that matters — Shopify, Stripe, ad platforms, CRMs, ops tooling — pulled into one place, reliably.
Cloud Warehouse & ETL
A modern, low-maintenance warehouse with idempotent pipelines. Snowflake or BigQuery, dbt under the hood.
Business Mapping & Metric Trees
We map how revenue actually moves through your business, then build the metric tree your operators can argue with.
Core Reporting Suite
Dashboards your team will actually open — finance, marketing, ops, product — wired straight to the metric tree.
The Summary Page
One trading-pack-grade page that answers the C-suite question before it gets asked. Built for boardrooms, refreshed daily.
LLM Readiness
Clean schemas, vector layers, evals, guardrails. Your data, prompt-ready — without the hallucination roulette.
One page. The whole business. Refreshed daily.
The Summary Page is what we ship that other consultancies don't. A trading-pack-grade view of how the business actually moved this week — built per vertical, tied to the metric tree, ready for the boardroom.
They embedded inside our operating cadence in a fortnight and shipped a Summary Page our board now opens before every meeting. We saved a year of hiring and ended up with a better answer.
Choose how you work with us.
Same operators, same standards. Different shapes — depending on whether you want a team forever, a team for now, or just the answer.
Build & Hand Over
We build the whole data function in 12 months. You own everything at the end.
Build & Manage
We build it, then stay on as your data team. No hiring, no hand-off.
Build & Embed
We build alongside the senior hire you're making. They inherit a working machine.
Fractional Data Team
Senior data leadership and delivery from day one. Skip the build phase.
Audit & Rescue
Find what's broken in your stack, fix it fast, leave a 30-day plan behind.
AI Readiness Sprint
LLM use-case mapping, data readiness, evals plan. Fixed price, fixed scope.
Built for consumer businesses.
We work where the data is messy, the operating cadence is weekly, and the margin lives in the details. Pick a vertical for what we ship.
- Channel data scattered across Shopify, Amazon, retailer EDI, ad platforms
- Margin truth is buried under returns, promotions and shipping costs
- Buying meetings run on stale exports
- Unified order-line warehouse with cleaned promo, returns and COGS attribution
- True margin metric tree by SKU, channel, customer segment
- Daily Summary Page tuned for the trading meeting
A daily trading pack the buying team trusts more than the spreadsheet.
Four reasons we keep getting picked.
Immediate start.
Inside a week, not a hiring cycle. The first useful output ships in weeks.
Activity Schema, day one.
We build on a foundation that makes future questions cheap to answer — analytics, AI, attribution.
You own the output.
Your warehouse, your code, your dashboards. No proprietary lock-in. We hand the keys over.
A safe path to LLMs.
Clean schemas, evals, guardrails. So when you put an AI in front of customers, it doesn't lie.
12 months. £120k. A working data function.
Or hire five people, spend £350k+ a year, wait six months for the first useful output, and pray nobody quits. We've seen which one finishes first.
- 5 hires
- 3–6 months to first output
- Hiring & retention risk
- One senior team
- First output in weeks
- You own everything
Bring one decision your data should be helping you make.
30 minutes, no deck. We'll tell you on the call whether Acta is the right partner — and what we'd ship in the first 30 days.