Data engineering · BI · Applied AI

Your AI projects fail at the data layer. We fix the data layer.

Harpy is a small senior team that makes your data AI-ready, then builds the pipelines, dashboards and automations that pay for themselves in 90 days. Fixed prices. No junior handoffs. No bloat.

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Single source of truth for reporting2 wks
Manual reporting → automated pipeline90 days
AI assistant on your own data90 days
Fixed-fee engagements Production systems, not slide decks Senior engineers only Documentation & handover included

Getting real data help is broken

Growing businesses have three options today — and all of them disappoint.

$340k+/yr

Hiring in-house is expensive & slow

A basic 3-person data team (analyst, engineer, scientist) averages well over $340k a year in salaries — after ~6 months of recruiting. Most growing businesses don't need that team full-time, year-round.

Juniors

Big consultancies sell you seniors, send you juniors

The partner pitches, then rotates junior staff through your project on open-ended billable hours. Months of "discovery" later, you get a strategy deck — not a working system.

Shelfware

DIY tools don't fix messy data

BI tools and AI apps are cheap now — but they're only as good as the data underneath. Point them at scattered spreadsheets and disconnected systems, and you get dashboards nobody trusts.

Why a small senior team wins

Harpy is deliberately small. That's not a limitation — it's the product.

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Who does the work
Rotating junior staff you've never met
The senior engineer from your first call, start to finish
Pricing
Open-ended billable hours; the meter always runs
Fixed fee agreed before we start — overruns are our cost
First deliverable
Months of discovery workshops
A full audit with a costed roadmap in 2 weeks
What you end up with
A strategy deck and a proposal for phase two
A production system, documented and handed over
Commitment
Multi-year contracts, procurement red tape
Project-based; retainers cancel anytime

What we actually build

Concrete systems, not vague "digital transformation". Every card below is something we can scope on a call and ship in weeks.

foundation

Single source of truth

All your scattered spreadsheets and app silos unified into one clean, queryable data warehouse.

e.g. sales + accounting + ops data reconciled nightly, one set of numbers everyone trusts

reporting

Automated reporting & dashboards

The reports your team builds by hand every week, generated automatically and always current.

e.g. 3-day month-end reporting cut to a dashboard that's ready every morning

prediction

Early-warning models

Models trained on your own history that flag risk while you can still act on it.

e.g. our fitness Retention Radar flags fading gym members weeks before they cancel

ai

AI assistants on your data

Private assistants that answer questions from your documents and databases — safely, without leaking data.

e.g. "what were our top 10 products in Q2?" answered in seconds, not a ticket to finance

automation

Workflow automation

The copy-paste-between-systems work your team does daily, done by software instead.

e.g. invoices, orders and CRM entries synced automatically across systems

intelligence

Market radar

Automated monitoring of competitor prices, products and moves from public data, summarized weekly.

e.g. know when any competitor changes pricing — within a day, not a quarter

We don't just build it — we make sure your team actually uses it

Here's the truth most consultants skip: replacing an unmanageable system is the easy half. Getting your staff to trust and use the new one is the hard half — and it's where most projects quietly die.

Your front desk has done it their way for years. Your bookkeeper has a spreadsheet ritual that "just works." A new dashboard nobody opens is worth exactly nothing — so adoption isn't an afterthought for us, it's part of every build.

We're not here to hand you an answer and disappear. We want you to succeed — and we succeed with you.

Training in your language

Short, hands-on sessions for the people who'll use it daily — no tech talk, real scenarios from your business.

Run side-by-side first

The new system runs alongside the old way until your team trusts the numbers. Nobody's forced to jump.

Cheat-sheets & how-to videos

Simple guides your staff can follow at 8am on a busy Monday — and for training whoever you hire next.

30 days of hand-holding

After handover we stay close: fixing confusions, adjusting what's awkward, until it feels like it was always there.

Three ways to work with us

No hourly billing, no surprises: you know the price and what you get before we start. Whether you run a gym, a clinic, a lab or a shop — it works the same way, and it starts with a free call.

Step 0 · Start here

Free Strategy Call

30 minutes, no obligation, no sales pitch. Tell us how your business runs and what eats your time — the spreadsheet nobody trusts, the reports you retype every month, the software that doesn't talk to each other. We'll tell you honestly whether we can help, and you'll leave with at least one fix you can do yourself, free.

$0 · 30 min

Book your free call

Step 1 · Find the leaks

Business Health Check

$4,500 fixed price

2 weeks · follows your free call

  • We look at how you actually run things — bookings, invoices, spreadsheets, the reports you type up by hand
  • We find where hours and money are leaking: double data entry, numbers that never match, reports that take days
  • You get a short written plan: what to fix first, roughly what it costs, and what it saves you
  • Explained in plain English — no tech talk
  • Useful even if you never hire us again
Start with a health check

Step 3 · Keep improving

Your On-Call Data Person

$4,000/month

monthly · cancel anytime

  • Like having a data expert on staff — without the salary
  • Something breaks or you need a new report? One message to a real engineer, not a ticket queue
  • A new time-saver shipped every month
  • Honest advice before you buy any new software
  • A quick review each quarter: what's working, what's next
Ask about this

continue to a build within 60 days and the $4,500 health check counts toward it

Built for your industry

Generic AI advice doesn't move a business. We build for the specific numbers your industry lives and dies by.

live now · gyms & studios

Fitness — Retention Radar

A third of members quit every year, mostly in a slow fade. Our dashboard reads your booking data and flags who's fading — before they cancel.

See the live demo →
in the lab · contractors

Construction — Job Profitability

Estimates, timesheets and change orders in one place, showing real margin per job while you can still act on it — not months after handover.

Coming soon — ask us
in the lab · clinics

Healthcare — Clinic Ops

Small practices juggle 8–12 disconnected systems. We unify the data and automate the reporting and admin work that eats staff hours.

Coming soon — ask us

How an engagement runs

The same discipline we bring to data pipelines, applied to the project itself: raw in, value out, nothing lost in between.

01

Extract

Free 30-minute strategy call. We map your systems, pain points and goals.

02

Assess

The two-week health check finds the leaks and gives you a costed fix-it plan.

03

Build

A 90-day sprint ships one working system into production, with your team trained on it.

04

Operate

Optional retainer keeps it running and compounds the wins month over month.

Is Harpy right for you?

We do our best work with a specific kind of company. Honest fit check:

A great fit if you…

  • Run a 2–200 person business drowning in spreadsheets and admin
  • Spend days each month on manual reporting
  • Have data in 3+ systems that don't talk to each other
  • Want AI, but suspect your data isn't ready for it
  • Prefer fixed prices and working software over billable hours

Probably not a fit if you…

  • Need a large team of on-site consultants tomorrow
  • Want a strategy deck with no implementation
  • Are looking for the cheapest possible offshore rate
  • Need mobile app or marketing-site development only

Questions we get asked

Straight answers, before you even book the call.

Why start with a health check instead of jumping straight to building?

Because building on messy foundations wastes money. The health check finds what's actually broken in two weeks for a fixed price, so the build carries no surprises — and the health check fee counts toward your build if you continue.

What does "fixed fee" actually mean?

We agree the deliverables, timeline and price before starting. If it takes us longer, that's our cost, not yours. Scope changes are agreed in writing before any extra cost appears.

You're a small team — can you handle our project?

Small is the point: you get senior engineers doing the work directly, with no account managers or junior layers in between. We deliberately take on few clients at a time, and we'll tell you honestly on the free call if your project needs a bigger bench than ours.

Do you work with our existing tools or make us buy new ones?

Existing tools first, always. Most companies already own more capability than they use. We only recommend new tooling when there's a clear ROI case — and we don't take vendor commissions, so the advice is unbiased.

Is our data safe with you?

We work under NDA by default, use least-privilege access to your systems, and remove our access at handover. Nothing leaves your environment without written agreement.

Get a free 30-minute strategy call

Bring your messiest reporting problem. You'll leave with at least one concrete fix, whether or not we work together.

Prefer email? hello@harpyconsultancy.com

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