We engineer world-class data analytics infrastructure for startups and growing businesses aiming to acquire their first enterprise client.
The core insight at Hermit Tech is that the vast majority of advice available in the data space is absolute nonsense. Businesses are rushing to implement data initiatives, failing horribly due to a lack of engineering discipline or a coherent philosophy, then covering it up. The current cycle of investment has been so breathtakingly ineffective that Gartner analysts have speculated that the role of Chief Data Officer will cease to exist in the near future. However, most of these failed projects are laundered into successes by consultancies and vendors, putting people who are serious about getting value out of their data into a difficult position — where do you go if you need guidance on how to actually build a no-nonsense analytics practice without being sold a bunch of complex technology for the sake of lining vendor pockets?
Enter Hermit Tech.
At Hermit Tech, we’re specialized in exactly one thing — helping companies put together an amazing analytics practice that serves all their needs without encouraging them to waste millions on overly-complex patterns designed to take their wealth. Businesses of any size can make use of us, but our operating model is particularly well-suited to startups and growing businesses that are planning to try selling to their first large enterprise customer. These customers will tend to have long lists of demands regarding data quality and access. We can help you build something quickly, that will make your competitors look weak in comparison, and incur a minimum of cost and maintenance.
When you work with us, you provide us a weekly rate to embed two of our directors in your organization. We’re so confident that each week will be a home run that you have the ability to cancel the remainder of the engagement the moment you think you aren’t getting massive value. You get two of our directors, who will also be excellent programmers, that will personally handle all communications and perform any labour themselves. None of the typical bait-and-switch consulting tactics that other consultancies engage in.
We’ll work alongside your executives and technical staff to deliver world-class analytics solutions. We do this in three stages.
Deploy Infrastructure
We join your team and use templates that we’ve developed in-house to produce an end-to-end analytics stack. In simpler terms, we set up the tools you need to collect all the data you have in one place, the tools needed to analyze them, and the tools needed to make the data available to the business. And it’s all stuff your competitors aren’t using because it’s too sophisticated for them. We’d never use some of the most popular tools like PowerBI for a thousand reasons, and the great news for you is that your competition isn’t even good enough to tell you what’s wrong with it.
2. Run Operations
Once the infrastructure is up, we work as your analytics team. For many organizations, this will be the first time that analytics work is delivered on time, to a high standard. This is accomplished through a mixture of our extremely disciplined operational practices, and relying on executive mandates to push through blockers that internal staff are typically unable to. As we do this, we will pair program with various members of your staff to help you identify high-performers that will carry on our practices when we depart.
3. Separation
Eventually, once the work is moving smoothly, you’ll want to transition to cheaper, permanent staff. We’ll train existing staff to adopt our practices, and in turn learn from them what works best in the context of your business. If we are the entirety of your analytics capability, then we will help you establish hiring practices and bring staff on to replace us.