Accelerate Your Data Future
Propel8 provides data consultancy services to help ambitious organizations design, build, and scale modern data architecture — with expertise across the modern data stack, from Snowflake and Databricks to cost-efficient open-source pipelines that deliver AI-ready infrastructure at scale.
End-to-End Data, Analytics & AI Expertise
Data Platform Modernization
Architect and migrate to cloud-native data platforms. We specialize in Snowflake and Databricks implementations that scale with your business and cut infrastructure costs.
Open-Source Data Pipelines
Build cost-efficient, production-grade data pipelines using best-in-class open-source tools — dbt, Airflow, Kafka, Iceberg, and DuckDB — without enterprise licensing overhead.
AI & ML Enablement
Transform your data platform into an AI-ready foundation. From feature stores and model serving to LLM integration and RAG architectures, we make AI practical.
Analytics Engineering
Design semantic layers, data models, and self-service BI that give business teams trusted, governed access to insights without bottlenecking your data engineers.
Data Strategy & Architecture
Cut through the noise. We assess your current state, map your goals, and deliver a pragmatic roadmap — buy vs. build decisions, platform selection, and migration planning.
DataOps & Platform Engineering
Bring DevOps discipline to your data stack. CI/CD for dbt, infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, observability with Monte Carlo or Great Expectations, and automated testing.
Deep Expertise in the Platforms That Matter
The Data Cloud, Fully Realized
From initial setup and data migration to performance tuning, cost governance, and Snowpark-based ML — we've delivered Snowflake implementations that reduced query costs by up to 60% and onboarding time for new data products from weeks to days.
- Zero-copy cloning & time travel for dev/test
- Dynamic Data Masking & column-level security
- Snowpark ML and Python UDFs
- Cost monitoring with resource monitors & query tagging
- Data sharing and Marketplace integration
Unified Analytics at Lakehouse Scale
We architect Unity Catalog governance layers, build Delta Lake pipelines, and operationalize ML workflows with MLflow — turning Databricks from a raw tool into a governed, production-grade lakehouse that your whole organization trusts.
- Unity Catalog for fine-grained data governance
- Delta Live Tables for declarative pipeline engineering
- MLflow experiment tracking and model registry
- Photon-accelerated query optimization
- Structured Streaming for real-time use cases
Enterprise Power. Open-Source Economics.
Not every problem requires an expensive SaaS license. Propel8 designs and builds production-grade data infrastructure using the modern open-source data stack — giving you full control, no vendor lock-in, and dramatically lower total cost of ownership.
Data Ingestion
Apache Kafka · Airbyte · Singer · Fivetran alternatives
Data Transformation
dbt Core · SQLMesh · data contracts
Data Storage
Apache Iceberg · Delta Lake · DuckDB · Trino
Pipeline Orchestration
Apache Airflow · Prefect · Dagster
Data Quality & Observability
Great Expectations · Elementary · OpenMetadata
Business Intelligence
Metabase · Superset
Why Teams Choose Propel8
Practitioners, Not PowerPoints
Our consultants have built production data platforms, not just advised on them. Every recommendation comes from hands-on experience.
Platform Agnostic, Cost Obsessed
We're not paid to push any vendor. We find the right tool — commercial or open-source — for your specific constraints and goals.
Speed to Value
We use proven accelerators, templates, and patterns to compress implementation timelines. Faster time to insight without cutting corners.
Embedded, Not Extractive
We build your team's capabilities alongside the platform. When we leave, your team can own it.
A Clear Path from Problem to Platform
Discover
Assess current state, define goals, map data landscape
Design
Architecture blueprints, platform selection, roadmap
Build
Agile delivery sprints, embedded engineers, weekly demos
Scale
Handoff enablement, runbooks, ongoing support options
Ready to accelerate your data future?
Tell us about your goals and we'll set up time to talk through how Propel8 can help.