Our flagship retainer for agencies: managed pipelines, automated client reporting, and monitoring across every ad platform, operated as your data team.
A project ends, the problem does not
Data infrastructure is not a project with a finish line. APIs deprecate, platforms change schemas, new clients arrive with new channels, and every one of those events needs an engineer. Agencies that buy a one-off build end up with an asset that degrades from the day of handover, because nobody owns it. Hiring for it is hard: the role is too specialized for a generalist and too small to justify a senior data engineering hire at most agency sizes.
What the retainer covers
- Managed ingestion across every ad platform and retail media network you run, including new clients as they onboard
- A modeled warehouse maintained as metric definitions and reporting needs evolve
- Automated client reporting and dashboards, updated when your deliverables change
- Monitoring and on-call cover, so a broken feed is our problem before it is your client's
- API deprecation tracking and migration work handled ahead of the cutoff
- A named engineering contact and a standing call, not a ticket queue
How we work
Start with an audit and a stabilization phase, so the current reporting stops being fragile
Migrate or rebuild the data layer onto infrastructure we can operate reliably
Take over ongoing operation, monitoring, and client onboarding
Review quarterly against reporting turnaround and incident count, not activity
Typical stack
Frequently asked questions
A build hands over an asset that starts degrading immediately, because platforms change and nobody at the agency owns the pipeline. The retainer means we keep it working: new clients get onboarded, deprecated APIs get migrated before the cutoff, and reporting changes as your deliverables change.
For most agencies, yes, and usually at lower total cost with far less key-person risk. A single in-house hire covers one skill set, takes holidays, and can leave. Where an agency is large enough to justify a data team, this often works better as augmentation, with us covering the ad platform specialism.
Yes, and it is the usual arrangement. Reporting carries your brand, and we can stay entirely behind the scenes or join client calls as your data team, whichever you prefer.
You can, and everything is built so that is possible: standard tooling, version-controlled code in a repo you own, and documented runbooks. No proprietary layer, no data hostage situation. We would rather earn the renewal than rely on lock-in.
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Scope the Data Engine
Tell us how many clients and platforms you run and we will scope the retainer and the stabilization phase.
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