Data & AI Advisory

Data decisions,
made legible.

SPSY Consulting embeds with data and AI teams to turn ambiguous mandates into systems that ship, hold up under scrutiny, and keep working after we leave.

VERIFIED DEPLOYMENT · RESPONSIBLE AI · FORWARD DEPLOYED ·
SPSY
Est. 2022
Who We Are

Forward-deployed engineering for institutions that can't afford to guess.

SPSY is a Data & AI consulting firm built on one principle: get inside the problem before we propose a solution. We work alongside your people to turn strategy into production outcomes that hold up to scrutiny.

CLIENTS & PARTNERS
Applied CuriosityAWSSnowflakeAnthropic
50+
years of combined leadership experience across data engineering, ML, and analytics practice
30+
production data & AI systems delivered into regulated, high-accountability environments
6 wks
median time from kickoff to first working pilot inside a client's own environment
Who We Serve

State, local, and higher ed.

Most agencies aren't short on data — they're short on trusted, governed pathways to act on it. Add procurement cycles, legacy systems, and public accountability, and most AI initiatives stall before they ship.

From first pilot to full production, we bring the technical depth of a specialist firm with the agility that large integrators can't match.

State & Local AgenciesActive
Higher EducationActive
Healthcare NetworksActive
Regulated EnterpriseActive
Financial ServicesIn Progress
What We Do

Four disciplines, one accountable team.

Every engagement draws on the same core practice areas — sized to what your organization actually needs next.

LEADERSHIP

Strategy that survives contact with budget cycles.

Our data and AI leaders work directly with your c-suite to align vision to feasible, measurable initiatives — not slideware.

BUILD CAPABILITIES

Foundations built to outlast the project.

We design and stand up secure, well-governed data and AI platforms your own teams can operate for the long term.

DELIVERY

Engineers inside your environment, not a deck.

We move initiatives from concept to production alongside your team, building the muscle to run and extend it long after our engagement ends.

GOVERNANCE

Guardrails your auditors will actually approve.

We help you establish the frameworks and controls for data quality, model risk, and compliance your teams can build inside confidently.

Field Note — 01
Most pilots fail before they reach a second environment.
Field Note — 02
Governance built in from day one ships faster, not slower.
Our Approach

A four-stage engagement, in sequence.

Each stage produces something concrete before the next begins — no phase starts without a deliverable from the last.

01

Diagnose

A structured Readiness Diagnostic maps your data maturity, use-case pipeline, and risk posture, then ranks opportunities by value and feasibility — grounded in evidence, not hype.

02

Design

We translate the diagnostic into a Deployment Roadmap: scoped workstreams, evaluation criteria, and a realistic build plan your team can execute against.

03

Deploy

We build the highest-value pilot inside your own environment, with continuous testing against real data — expect a working system in weeks, not a slide deck.

04

Sustain

We help stand up the monitoring, governance, and internal capability to keep the system reliable — and to take your team from one win to a full portfolio.

Field Notes

Recent thinking from the field.

Notes from active engagements — what's working, what isn't, and what we're watching.

We're a newly founded firm, so this space is still filling in. Our first field notes will land here as we complete engagements worth writing about — check back soon, or reach out directly if you'd like to talk shop now.

Our Team

Founder-led, hands-on, still small on purpose.

SPSY is early — every engagement right now is led directly by our founding team, not handed off to a bench. As we grow, this page will introduce the people behind the work. Want to know who you'd actually be working with? Ask us directly.

Careers

We're not hiring yet — but we're building toward it.

As a newly founded firm, we don't have open roles listed today. If you're a data or AI practitioner who wants to be part of an early team, reach out — we'd rather hear from you now than post a job later.

Get Started

Ready to move past the pilot?

Tell us where you're stuck. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right team to help.