- Reusable, automated ML workflow that prepares data, builds and retrains models, and deploys the best performers
- Snowflake "Safety Dataverse": a best-practice data lake with security, pipelines, monitoring and logging
- Agentic GenAI solution (Cortex + Streamlit) to analyse data and generate new safety documents
- Proactive safety dashboard in Tableau with configurable risk levels and drill-down to drivers
Some of our clients
Selected outcomes
We prioritise measurable returns over the size of the engagement, even when the data isn't perfect.
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in identified savings across production, inventory and distribution for a global consumer goods manufacturer
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Power BI dashboards across 10 departments, saving hundreds of manual hours every month
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of automation benefit identified at a UK energy supplier, at a 2-3× return on investment
How we help
Three ways we turn data into outsized returns.
We match pragmatic solutions to real opportunities, and speak about them in a language everyone in your business understands.
01 · Transform
Data Transformation
Our expertise and best practices drive data and AI solutions that hit the bottom line: modern architectures, automated pipelines and production ML, delivered right first time.
Medallion data lakes · CI/CD · MLOps
02 · Strategy
Data & AI Strategy
Together we explore the art of the possible, shaping transformation strategy and roadmaps that build lasting capability, not dependence on us.
AI strategy · Automation roadmaps · Operating models
03 · Unleash
Insights Unleashed
We put the power of data into the hands of the business: enterprise BI, agentic AI and self-serve insight, matched to the opportunities that matter.
Enterprise BI · Agentic AI · Data literacy
Our way of working
We work your way, not our way.
For every client we establish a customised way of working that optimises us working together. We believe in transparent, collaborative and trusted partner relationships, and long-term partnerships over one-off engagements.
Accelerate implementation
A 'right first time' approach for swift, efficient deployment that starts returning value early.
Empower your stakeholders
The tools and data your people need to make informed decisions and drive change themselves.
Foster collaboration
We bridge your teams and external stakeholders so good ideas travel and stick.
Tool-agnostic by design
We're not here to sell you a vendor.
We pick the right tool for your data, your team and your budget, and we're fluent across the modern stack. Already invested in a platform? We meet you where you are and make it work harder.
Cloud & data platforms
Microsoft FabricAzureSnowflakeDatabricksAWSGoogle Cloud
BI & visualisation
Power BITableauSigmaStreamlit
AI & machine learning
Snowflake CortexAzure MLPythonAgentic AICopilot Studio
Engineering & governance
Azure Data FactoryPySparkAzure DevOpsTerraformMicrosoft Purview
Our work
Where we've found the value.
A selection of engagements across building materials, consumer goods, publishing, energy and financial services. Open any to see what we built.
- Constraint-based simulation engine propagating across every value-chain stage
- Revealed non-obvious strategies, e.g. higher inventory cost at one node to cut total distribution spend
- Executive dashboards visualising bottlenecks and optimisation opportunities
- Became the standard tool for quarterly planning and investment decisions
- Best-practice medallion data lake with CI/CD and infrastructure as code
- 100+ reusable, scalable datasets so the business can build its own insight
- Data literacy programme: skills matrix, training, BI champions, comms and governance op model
- Agile delivery and governance embedded via Azure DevOps
- End-to-end MS Fabric medallion data lake with environments, security and CI/CD
- Power BI suite for finance and editorial, integrating the BISAC ontology and data-quality reporting
- End-user and developer training in Fabric and Power BI to build internal capability
- Ongoing managed service to maintain and continually enhance the solution
- 50+ automation opportunities scoped with £1.3m pa of benefit identified
- Productionised electricity settlement report, with dataflows through to Power BI
- Prototyped a full suite of billing-health reports on real data to show the art of the possible
- Modern data application architecture designed, with critical operational risks remediated
D&A Intelligence delivered a machine learning and generative AI solution that has transformed the way we manage safety risk, enabling a far more proactive approach, and exceeding our expectations.Director of Safety Innovation, global building materials manufacturer
The Collective
A network of senior specialists, assembled around you.
D&A Intelligence isn't a pyramid of juniors learning on your budget. It's a collective of independent, senior specialists who join forces under one banner. We hand-pick the right team for each engagement, deliver, and put the value firmly in your hands.
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Adam Palmer
Founder · Strategy to delivery
Known for traversing deep, hands-on technical delivery and the executive conversation in a single breath.
A digital, data and AI transformation leader with 20+ years across utilities, construction, financial services and retail. Adam advises Chief Data & Digital Officers on transformation strategy and cutting-edge technique, and has built and led data practices of 30+ experts.
He pairs deep technical delivery with the ability to engage and steer senior stakeholders, building capability that lasts beyond the engagement.
~20% demand-forecast accuracy uplift, steering ~£20m pa of cost reduction at a UK water retailer
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Chris Pike
Partner · AI & ML solutions
Known for shipping production-grade, agentic AI that quietly removes 90% of the manual effort.
An AI/ML and data solutions leader delivering end-to-end systems and pragmatic data products across consumer goods, energy, financial services, aviation and retail. Brings deep consulting, private equity and start-up experience.
Chris builds production ML pipelines, multi-agent systems and document-intelligence solutions, bridging business objectives with technical execution.
90%+ effort reduction automating a UK bank's financial-crime case prep, from hours to under 15 minutes
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Luiz
Senior BI & Data Engineer · Microsoft Fabric
Known for standing up governed, enterprise-grade Fabric platforms from a blank workspace.
A senior BI & data engineer with 6+ years delivering enterprise Fabric and Power BI solutions across regulated, data-intensive industries, from pipeline architecture and PySpark transformation through to governed semantic models and self-service BI.
Certified PL-300, DP-600, DP-203, AZ-104 and PL-100, with deep hands-on command of the full medallion stack.
Stood up a Fabric & Power BI Centre of Excellence from the ground up for a regulated UK bank
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Dave Gurney
Architect SME · Snowflake
Known for architecting Snowflake platforms that unify a dozen sources and slash reporting latency.
A technology leader with 20+ years designing and deploying enterprise-scale data platforms, with deep expertise in Snowflake, cloud analytics and financial-services transformation, bridging strategy and hands-on execution.
Expert in end-to-end Snowflake architecture, medallion modelling, RBAC, cross-account replication and performance optimisation for UK banks and wealth managers.
Unified 13+ data sources on a Snowflake platform, reducing reporting latency by 80%
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Amanda Gower
Industrial Assets SME · Capital projects
Known for moving heavy-asset organisations from manual reporting to near-real-time project controls.
An infrastructure capital-project specialist with 20+ years across mining, oil & gas, semiconductor, shipping and rail, operating on multi-billion-dollar portfolios. She specialises in business and IT transformation: operating-model redesign, digitalisation and high-impact change.
Blue-chip pedigree across CRH, Rio Tinto, BHP and Intel; ex-Deloitte and Baringa.
Cut mining reporting cycles from three weeks to near-real-time, enabling a first integrated performance view
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Your speciality
The Collective keeps growing
A seat reserved for the next senior specialist who works the way we do.
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Let's find the value in your data.
No pitch decks to start with, just a conversation about where you are, where the returns might be hiding, and how we'd work together to reach them.