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title: "Data Consultancy UK | Shipshape Data"
description: "A UK data consultancy covering strategy, analytics, data science, and BI, built on a governed foundation. Data consulting that names what each result depends on."
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# Data consultancy

> A UK data consultancy covering strategy, analytics, data science, and BI, built on a governed foundation. Data consulting that names what each result depends on.

Section: Home > Services > Data consultancy

Canonical page: https://shipshapedata.com/services/data-consultancy/

On this page:

- One foundation. Every answer.
- What our data consulting covers
  - Data strategy consulting
  - Data engineering and foundation
  - Analytics and BI consultancy
  - Data science and governance
- Proof it works
  - 7 systems, unified
  - 1.5 days a week
  - 60% of tickets
- How an engagement runs
  - Audit what you have
  - Strategy tied to decisions
  - Build the foundation
  - Deliver the analytics
  - Govern and hand over
- Data analytics and data science consultancy
- Data management and governance consulting
- Questions we hear most
- What happens when you get in touch
  - You tell us the problem
  - A scoping conversation
  - A straight answer

## Frequently asked questions

### What does a data consultancy do?

A data consultancy helps you turn scattered operational data into something your business can rely on: a strategy for what to collect and why, a governed foundation to hold it, and the analytics, data science, and BI built on top. At Shipshape Data all four come from one team.

### What is the difference between data strategy and data governance?

Data strategy decides what data the business needs and what it should do; governance is the rules and controls that keep it accurate, secure, and compliant while it does it. You need both: strategy without governance drifts, and governance without strategy is paperwork.

### Which platforms do you work with?

We build on the modern cloud data stack: Snowflake, Databricks, Google BigQuery, and Microsoft Fabric, with dbt and Fivetran in the pipeline layer. We recommend the platform that fits your estate rather than the one we get a margin on: we do not resell licences.

### Do you cover business intelligence consultancy?

Yes. Dashboards, self-serve reporting, and forecasting are usually the first visible output of the engagement, built on a semantic layer so every team works from one definition of the numbers.

### How long does a data consulting engagement take?

A focused first outcome typically lands in weeks. Our Smarter Services engagement unified seven systems into one live, governed dashboard in 14 weeks, and freed up 1.5 days of manual reporting a week from then on.

### We are not a large enterprise. Is this still for us?

Yes. Most of our clients are mid-sized organisations whose data outgrew spreadsheets and point solutions. The architecture scales down as well as up; what matters is that the foundation is right for the decisions you need it to support.

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Shipshape Data is a London AI consultancy: we build the data foundation your AI depends on, then the AI on top. Site guide for agents: https://shipshapedata.com/llms.txt | Contact: hello@shipshapedata.com