An independent, senior-led review of your data platform, practices, and team. You get what it should look like, how to run it, and where to invest first — laying the foundations your business goals are built on.
8
weeks
From kick-off to readout
8
sessions
One per week with your team
20+
components
Current to Recommended
3
deliverables
Guides the next 90 days
01
WHAT WE SHIP
Three deliverables, ready to execute.
Data Platform Blueprint
An architectural read of your data platform — infrastructure, flow, ops, and datasets. Component-level current state, recommended target, and a defended verdict on each.
INFRASTRUCTURE · FLOW · OPS · DATASETS
Engineering & Delivery Playbook
How the team needs to work to make the platform stick — engineering excellence, delivery discipline, AI-augmented pod design, and the rituals that keep a high-performing data team high-performing.
OPERATING MODEL · WAYS OF WORKING · AI-AUGMENTED PODS
90-Day Roadmap
A prioritised, costed plan you can start executing immediately. Each initiative tied to the findings that justify it and the business outcomes it unlocks.
ROADMAP · INVESTMENT · BUSINESS CASE
02
HOW WE WORK
Product mindset. Outcomes first.
Ilma AI is built by senior data leaders who have designed, scaled, and salvaged data platforms and teams at high-growth companies. We read the stack, the practice, and the team — not a maturity scorecard. We tell you what we'd do, as if it were ours.
01
Outcomes
Platform, practice, and team — read together, not in silos.
02
Opinions
We recommend what to do, not just what we saw.
03
Senior-led
Every session run by people who've built this before.
03
THE ENGAGEMENT
one session / week
Eight sessions. Layer by layer.
01
Kick-off & Alignment
Business priorities, data strategy, pain points, platform scope.
Sets: goals, scope, access, stakeholders
02
Platform & Infrastructure
Cloud alignment, warehouse choice, data platform architecture.
03
Data Flow
Ingestion, transformation, activation — AI BI, conversational analytics, data science, ops analytics.
04
Data Ops
Orchestration, observability, incident response, governance — keeping the data platform running.
05
Datasets
Data modelling, data quality and accuracy, trust signals, data access and sensitivity.
06
Ways of Working
Engineering excellence, agile, team rhythm, AI-augmented practice — delivery quality and pace.
07
Team & Topology
Topology, culture, leadership, skills — how AI-augmented pods accelerate the team's flow of value.
08
Findings & Readout
Present findings, prioritised recommendations, strategic roadmap, next-step planning.
Delivers: the 11-section pack
Find out what your data capability is really ready for.
Book a 30-minute scoping call. We'll tell you if it's the right fit — honestly.