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One customer spent $1,000,000 on consultants before they called us.Don’t make the same mistake.

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Trusted by companies doing $50M–$500M+ in revenue

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Choose Stackless if you don’t want to see the work back on your desk in six months

Whether you're pricing a fractional data team, comparing data analytics consulting firms, or working out what a data warehouse costs to build in-house, this is how a fully managed option like Stackless compares.

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Comparison of an in-house engineer, a consultancy, buying a point tool, and Stackless
Comparison point	In-house engineer	Consultancy	Buy a point tool	Stackless
TIME TO FIRST RESULT	3—6 months to ramp	6—12 week engagements	Whenever you build it	30 days
COST	$300K+ a year, plus ramp	~200K for the first bill, plus change requests	Per seat, per volume	Flat monthly
WHO BUILDS EVERYTHING	One engineer	A project team, within scope	You do	Us, at one flat rate
WHEN SOMETHING BREAKS	They're backlogged	The engagement is over	File a support ticket	We fix it. That's the job.
WHO OWNS THE WORK	They do	Locked in their stack	A subscription	You own everything
WHO RUNS A REPORT	The engineer, when they're free	Their analysts, on their timeline	Whoever learns the tool	Anyone on your team
THE REPORTS	Whatever they have time to build	Canned templates, re-skinned	Whatever the tool supports	Built around your business
MONTH 12	Gives notice	Long gone	Still a tool to manage	Still here
IF IT DOESN'T WORK OUT	Rehire and start over	Hire the next firm	Migrate everything	Walk away with a working system

TIME TO FIRST RESULT

In-house engineer3—6 months to ramp

Stackless30 days

COST

In-house engineer$300K+ a year, plus ramp

StacklessFlat monthly

WHO BUILDS EVERYTHING

In-house engineerOne engineer

StacklessUs, at one flat rate

WHEN SOMETHING BREAKS

In-house engineerThey're backlogged

StacklessWe fix it. That's the job.

WHO OWNS THE WORK

In-house engineerThey do

StacklessYou own everything

WHO RUNS A REPORT

In-house engineerThe engineer, when they're free

StacklessAnyone on your team

THE REPORTS

In-house engineerWhatever they have time to build

StacklessBuilt around your business

MONTH 12

In-house engineerGives notice

StacklessStill here

IF IT DOESN'T WORK OUT

In-house engineerRehire and start over

StacklessWalk away with a working system

TIME TO FIRST RESULT

Consultancy6—12 week engagements

Stackless30 days

COST

Consultancy~200K for the first bill, plus change requests

StacklessFlat monthly

WHO BUILDS EVERYTHING

ConsultancyA project team, within scope

StacklessUs, at one flat rate

WHEN SOMETHING BREAKS

ConsultancyThe engagement is over

StacklessWe fix it. That's the job.

WHO OWNS THE WORK

ConsultancyLocked in their stack

StacklessYou own everything

WHO RUNS A REPORT

ConsultancyTheir analysts, on their timeline

StacklessAnyone on your team

THE REPORTS

ConsultancyCanned templates, re-skinned

StacklessBuilt around your business

MONTH 12

ConsultancyLong gone

StacklessStill here

IF IT DOESN'T WORK OUT

ConsultancyHire the next firm

StacklessWalk away with a working system

TIME TO FIRST RESULT

Buy a point toolWhenever you build it

Stackless30 days

COST

Buy a point toolPer seat, per volume

StacklessFlat monthly

WHO BUILDS EVERYTHING

Buy a point toolYou do

StacklessUs, at one flat rate

WHEN SOMETHING BREAKS

Buy a point toolFile a support ticket

StacklessWe fix it. That's the job.

WHO OWNS THE WORK

Buy a point toolA subscription

StacklessYou own everything

WHO RUNS A REPORT

Buy a point toolWhoever learns the tool

StacklessAnyone on your team

THE REPORTS

Buy a point toolWhatever the tool supports

StacklessBuilt around your business

MONTH 12

Buy a point toolStill a tool to manage

StacklessStill here

IF IT DOESN'T WORK OUT

Buy a point toolMigrate everything

StacklessWalk away with a working system

30-day guarantee

Tell us your most frustrating data problem. We'll solve it in 30 days or the pilot's free.

Apply for a Pilot

The 30-day guarantee applies to the first defined problem in a paid pilot. Clock begins once access to source systems is granted.

What each option is actually good at, and where it falls apart

Each option has pros and cons

What's good about it

Someone in-house, dedicated, who learns how your business actually works.

Where it breaks

One person can't cover ingestion, warehousing, transformation, and reporting. That's four jobs. Recruiting takes months and ramping takes longer. And when they leave, they leave with everything they never wrote down.

What's good about it

Real expertise, fast, with no headcount on your books.

Where it breaks

The engagement ends. They scope it, build it, hand you documentation, and invoice the hours. Six months later something breaks and nobody remembers how it was wired. They're also paid by the hour, which is a strange incentive to hand someone working against your timeline.

What's good about it

Genuinely best-in-class at the one thing it does, and you can buy it this afternoon.

Where it breaks

A connector platform moves your data and stops. A dashboard tool draws whatever you feed it, right or wrong. Each tool owns one layer and hands the other three back to you, along with the job of making them agree.

What's good about it

Total control, and on the spreadsheet it's the cheapest line.

Where it breaks

It stays cheapest right up until the person who built it moves on. Plenty of our inbound comes from companies whose internal build technically works — until the connectors are all hand-written, the transformation layer never made it to production, and the math happens inside the dashboard because that's where it fit at the time.

Results

Every one of these companies ended up with one set of numbers they could finally trust.

Different industries, different systems, but the same big mess. Here's what changed after we put all of their data in one place.

Infrastructure Services

7 → 1

7 systems unified, after $1M already spent on consultants.

A million dollars of consulting didn't get it done. We unified all seven systems, and three of their four regions now run on what we built.

Entertainment & Events

400K+

Unified 2 distinct registration systems with 400k customer records

We consolidated two distinct customer registration systems with over 400,000 accounts, enabling a unified customer loyalty program.

Health & Fitness

$50M+

Unified millions of records to optimize $50M+ in annual ad spend.

We stitched millions of customer records together for one of the country's largest digital fitness brands, cutting the time to answer a lifetime-value question from 24 hours to three.

E-Commerce

3 min

Reached 85% unique lead rate & cut data lag from 24 hours to 3 minutes

We connected the five platforms behind a fast-scaling personalized pet-products company, so it stopped paying to re-acquire customers it already had.

Health & Wellness

6+ → 1

Unified 6+ ad platforms and improved ROAS by double digits.

We pulled six-plus ad platforms into one view for a high-growth supplement brand and closed the attribution gaps that were hiding what its advertising actually did.

Testimonials

And the people who use it every day love it

01 / 06

“Stackless helped us bring together two major live event systems with complicated data and turn it into something we can actually use across our organization.”

DANIELLA BUXBAUM · DIRECTOR

Who it's for

Whatever your job is, we'll make it easier

Managed data analytics and reporting built around the job you actually do.

Operations

Know which regions are actually making money, including the ones you acquired that still run their own systems.

RegionRevenueMargin

Northwest$412,38038%

Southwest$388,90541%

Central$296,11422% ▼

Southeast$341,27036%

Finance

Close the month without copy-pasting from 20 different spreadsheets and rebuilding four exports by hand.

Month close · March

GL total$2,841,203.11

Bank + processors$2,841,203.11

Variance$0.00

✓ Closed in 2 days

Marketing

Stop guessing, and see what spend actually produced revenue, even when the sale doesn't happen on your website.

Revenue by source · 30 days

$684K

$541K

$358K

shopify$192K

Leadership

Review one dashboard every morning, built on numbers that agree, without anybody arguing about whose spreadsheet is right.

Today's net revenue

$147,203▲ 8.2%

✓ Sources agree: 14/14

Integrations

We connect to everything you already run.

If your business runs on it, we can pull data from it, including the systems you inherited and the ones nobody wants to touch.

Data sources

ServiceTitan

Shopify

NetSuite

Sage Intacct

Salesforce

HubSpot

Google Ads

Meta Ads

QuickBooks

SAP

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

REST APIs

One warehouse · One model · One truth

Don't see your system? We probably support it. We've connected to over 500 data sources across every major industry.

Infrastructure

Snowflake

Fivetran

dbt

Don't see your system? We probably support it. We've connected to over 500 data sources across every major industry.

How it works

Nobody on your team has to learn a new job for this to work

There's no onboarding curriculum here. Your team asks for what it needs, and we make sure it's there.

/01

We plug into your systems.

Every source your business runs on, including the legacy ones nobody wants to open.

/02

We make sense of the chaos.

Raw data on its own is useless. We clean it, model it, and build in the business logic that turns disconnected tables into numbers your team can act on.

/03

We get your data where it needs to go.

Dashboards for your team, reports for your board, and clean structured data feeding the applications that run your business.

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

We already have some of this working. Do we start over?

No. Most companies come to us with something half-built: hand-written connectors, a warehouse holding raw copies of source data, the math happening inside a dashboard. We keep what works, put managed infrastructure underneath it, and take over the parts nobody wants to maintain.

What if we already have a data team?

Then they get their week back. A small or stretched data team spends most of its time servicing report requests, because they're the only translation layer between the business and the data. We remove that bottleneck and hand them a platform to run instead of a queue to clear.

Do you lock us in?

No proprietary formats and no lock-in. You keep access to every system we build, and if you leave, you leave with a working warehouse and models you own.

How is this different from hiring a consultant?

A consulting engagement ends. Ours doesn't. Consultants scope a project, build it, hand you documentation, and invoice the hours… and six months later something breaks and nobody remembers how it was wired. Pro-Vac spent about a million dollars that way before they called us. We build it and then we keep operating it, for a flat monthly fee, with nobody incentivized to make the work take longer.

Why apply for a pilot instead of just booking a demo?

You can book a consultation right now, that's the button at the top of this page. The pilot is the step after, and it exists because a demo on somebody else's data proves nothing, and you've probably sat through a few already. We'd rather prove it on your systems. We also turn down work that isn't a fit, and it's cheaper for both of us to find that out on a call than a quarter in.

Let’s clean up your data.

Start with the problem that's been bugging you the longest.
We'll fix that one in 30 days, and then we'll talk about the rest.

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SOC 2 compliant

Snowflake partner

dbt

The 30-day guarantee applies to the first defined problem in a paid pilot. Clock begins once access to source systems is granted.

Compare Options for Managed Data and Analytics Consulting

Choose Stackless if you don’t want to see the work back on your desk in six months

In-house engineerversusStackless

ConsultancyversusStackless

Buy a point toolversusStackless

Tell us your most frustrating data problem. We'll solve it in 30 days or the pilot's free.

What each option is actually good at, and where it falls apart

Hire a data engineer

What's good about it

Where it breaks

Bring in a consultancy

What's good about it

Where it breaks

Buy a point tool

What's good about it

Where it breaks

Build it yourself

What's good about it

Where it breaks

Every one of these companies ended up with one set of numbers they could finally trust.

7 systems unified, after $1M already spent on consultants.

Unified 2 distinct registration systems with 400k customer records

Unified millions of records to optimize $50M+ in annual ad spend.

Reached 85% unique lead rate & cut data lag from 24 hours to 3 minutes

Unified 6+ ad platforms and improved ROAS by double digits.

And the people who use it every day love it

Whatever your job is, we'll make it easier

Operations

Finance

Marketing

Leadership

We connect to everything you already run.

Nobody on your team has to learn a new job for this to work

We plug into your systems.

We make sense of the chaos.

We get your data where it needs to go.

Frequently Asked Questions

Let’s clean up your data.

What data problem should we start with?

Compare Options for Managed Data and Analytics Consulting

Choose Stackless if you don’t want to see the work back on your desk in six months

Tell us your most frustrating data problem. We'll solve it in 30 days or the pilot's free.Tell us your most frustrating data problem. We'll solve it in 30 days or the pilot's free.

What's good about it

Where it breaks

What's good about it

Where it breaks

What's good about it

Where it breaks

What's good about it

Where it breaks

Every one of these companies ended up with one set of numbers they could finally trust.

7 systems unified, after $1M already spent on consultants.

Unified 2 distinct registration systems with 400k customer records

Unified millions of records to optimize $50M+ in annual ad spend.

Reached 85% unique lead rate & cut data lag from 24 hours to 3 minutes

Unified 6+ ad platforms and improved ROAS by double digits.

And the people who use it every day love it

Operations

Finance

Marketing

Leadership

We plug into your systems.

We make sense of the chaos.

We get your data where it needs to go.

Let’s clean up your data.

Tell us your most frustrating data problem. We'll solve it in 30 days or the pilot's free.