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Data people actually trust.

Pipelines, warehouse platforms, dbt modelling and quality testing that runs on every execution - built from one question the business needs answered rather than from ingesting everything and hoping.

dbt · AirflowWarehouse & lakehouseQuality as tests
One question
Where every engagement starts
Every run
Data quality asserted, not audited quarterly
-62%
Pipeline runtime after modelling rework
Hours
Freshness SLAs, monitored and alerted
Capabilities

What we actually deliver.

Ingestion & pipelines

Batch and streaming ingestion with replay, idempotency and reconciliation - so a failed run is a retry rather than an investigation.

  • Batch, CDC and streaming ingestion
  • Idempotent, replayable by design
  • Reconciliation against source truth

Warehouse & lakehouse

A cloud warehouse by default because it is simpler and cheaper to operate; a lakehouse when volume or ML access genuinely justifies it.

  • Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Postgres
  • Storage and partitioning design
  • Cost modelling before commitment

Transformation & modelling

dbt models that are version controlled, tested and documented, with a semantic layer so metrics mean one thing across the business.

  • dbt project structure and conventions
  • Semantic layer and metric definitions
  • Incremental models that stay correct

Data quality

Expectations asserted in code and failing loudly - with an agreed decision per dataset about which failures block and which only warn.

  • Uniqueness, referential and freshness tests
  • Distribution and anomaly checks
  • Explicit block-vs-warn policy

Orchestration

Dependency-aware scheduling with lineage, so a failure upstream is visible to everyone downstream before they act on stale numbers.

  • Airflow, Dagster or managed equivalents
  • End-to-end lineage
  • Freshness SLAs with alerting

Governance & access

Row and column level access, PII handling and retention rules built into the platform rather than enforced by convention.

  • Row / column level security
  • PII classification and masking
  • Retention and deletion workflows
How we engage

A sequence that de-risks delivery.

01

Pick one question

One high-value question the business needs answered. Building its pipeline surfaces the real problems at a scale you can actually fix.

02

Model the domain

Agree what a customer, an order and an active user actually mean before writing transformations. Most data distrust starts as definition drift.

03

Build with tests from day one

Quality expectations written alongside the models, not retrofitted. Retrofitted tests document current behaviour rather than correct behaviour.

04

Widen coverage

Once one answer is trusted, extend to adjacent domains. Trust compounds; coverage without trust produces a warehouse nobody queries.

Outcomes

What clients measure afterwards.

Numbers agreed

One definition per metric, so meetings stop debating whose figure is right.

-62% pipeline runtime

Incremental modelling and partitioning rework on a typical estate.

Freshness monitored

SLAs with alerting, so stale data is caught before someone acts on it.

AI foundation ready

Clean, current, permission-aware data - the prerequisite most AI work skips.

Stack

Tools we work fluently in.

Warehouse
  • Snowflake
  • BigQuery
  • Databricks
  • Redshift
  • Postgres
Transformation
  • dbt
  • SQLMesh
  • Spark
  • Polars
  • Python
Orchestration
  • Airflow
  • Dagster
  • Prefect
  • Temporal
Quality & ingestion
  • Great Expectations
  • Fivetran
  • Airbyte
  • Debezium
  • Kafka
Why SyncTrix

Senior engineers, accountable outcomes.

We start with a question, not a platform

Teams that ingest everything first spend a year building a warehouse nobody trusts. Trust comes from a correct answer, not coverage.

Quality is tests, not an initiative

Expectations run on every execution and fail loudly. A quarterly data quality review finds problems weeks after decisions were made on them.

We resist over-building

More teams over-build here than under-build. A cloud warehouse handles far more than most mid-market companies will ever put through it.

The foundation AI needs

Retrieval quality depends on clean, current, permission-aware data. Tuning prompts against bad data wastes months and looks like a model problem.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

The questions data leaders, CTOs and analytics teams ask us most often before a data platform engagement.

  • For most mid-market companies, a cloud warehouse is the right default - it is simpler to operate, the tooling is mature, and the cost is predictable. A lakehouse earns its complexity when you have genuinely large volumes, semi-structured or streaming data, or machine learning workloads that need direct file access. We have seen more teams over-build here than under-build, so we start with the simpler option unless there is a specific reason not to.
Next step

Book a data call - leave with a first question.

A 45-minute session with a senior data engineer. We identify the one question worth building for first and what stands between you and trusting the answer - and you leave with that, whether you engage us or not.

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Contact

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Briefs, NDAs, architecture reviews, anything goes. A senior engineer responds within 24 hours.

What happens next
  1. 1 · A senior engineer reviews your brief within 24 hours.
  2. 2 · We schedule a 30-minute discovery call.
  3. 3 · You receive a written proposal in 48-72 hours.
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