Ironbark Consulting builds audit-grade data infrastructure for UK mid-market businesses — combining deep technical delivery with board-level financial credibility.
UK mid-market businesses have accumulated cloud platforms, BI tools, and data pipelines — but most still can’t answer basic questions about their own performance with confidence.
Teams have built reporting but nobody believes the numbers. Finance reconciles manually. The board asks for the spreadsheet instead.
Data failures go undetected for days. Decisions get made on stale data. Nobody knows until the auditors ask.
You’ve migrated to Snowflake, Azure, or AWS. The licences are being paid. The tools are barely being used.
GDPR obligations are poorly implemented. AI governance legislation is accelerating. The data estate is a liability, not an asset.
When your data infrastructure is right, this is what it looks like — a single source of truth your whole business can query, trust, and act on without waiting for a report.
ThoughtSpot Liveboard — one of several platforms Ironbark configures and delivers
Every engagement starts with understanding, moves to building, and matures into a long-term retained partnership.
A structured assessment of your data landscape: infrastructure, pipelines, reporting quality, governance gaps, and a prioritised roadmap with clear next steps.
Project-based implementation: data warehouse design, Snowflake engineering, Fivetran pipeline build, ThoughtSpot or Tableau dashboards, and governance frameworks.
An ongoing retained partnership. Continuous development, monitoring, governance, and strategic data advisory — your fractional Head of Data, without the overhead.
No junior analysts, no account managers. The people who sell the work are the people who do it. Senior expertise on every engagement.
Deep Snowflake, SQL, and pipeline expertise paired with an LLB background — rigorous thinking in both technical and legal contexts.
The financial partner brings audit qualification and board-level language. A CFO and a CTO both recognise themselves in our proposition.
GDPR compliance and data governance are core to every engagement — not afterthoughts. Infrastructure you can put in front of auditors from day one.
“Most data consultancies can build a dashboard. Very few can tell you whether the numbers in it are audit-grade, governance-compliant, and boardroom-ready. Ironbark can do all three.”— Ironbark Consulting
A typical engagement moves the business from fragmented, manual, low-trust reporting to a single governed source the whole organisation can act on.
A no-obligation 45-minute conversation. We ask the right questions about your data landscape, your current pain points, and what good would look like.
Fixed-price Discovery & Audit proposal within 48 hours. Clear scope, clear deliverables, clear price. No surprises.
Structured 2–3 week assessment of your full data landscape. Findings report with prioritised roadmap delivered at a formal presentation.
Proceed to a build engagement and, when ready, transition to a retainer. Continuous improvement, ongoing governance, and strategic data leadership.
Fixed-price audit from kickoff to findings presentation
No hand-offs to junior analysts. Senior expertise throughout
Mid-market businesses with cloud tools and data ambition
Technical engineering + audit-qualified finance. A rare pairing