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Data & Analytics Consulting

Data you
can trust.
Insight you
can act on.

Ironbark Consulting builds audit-grade data infrastructure for UK mid-market businesses — combining deep technical delivery with board-level financial credibility.

The Problem We Solve

Your data is there.
The insight isn't.

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.

01

Dashboards nobody trusts

Teams have built reporting but nobody believes the numbers. Finance reconcile manually. The board asks for the spreadsheet instead.

02

Pipelines that break silently

Data failures go undetected for days. Decisions get made on stale data. Nobody knows until the auditors ask.

03

Cloud tools, no capability

You've migrated to Snowflake, Azure, or AWS. The licences are being paid. The tools are barely being used.

04

Governance gaps increasing risk

GDPR obligations are poorly implemented. AI governance legislation is accelerating. The data estate is a liability, not an asset.

How We Work

Three tiers.
One clear path.

Every engagement starts with understanding, moves to building, and matures into a long-term retained partnership.

TIER 01 — FIXED PRICE

Data Discovery & Audit

A structured assessment of your data landscape: infrastructure, pipelines, reporting quality, governance gaps, and a prioritised roadmap with clear next steps.

£3,000 – £6,000 fixed fee, 2–3 weeks
TIER 02 — PROJECT

Build Engagement

Project-based implementation: data warehouse design, Snowflake engineering, Fivetran pipeline build, ThoughtSpot or Tableau dashboards, and governance frameworks.

£15,000 – £60,000 per project, scoped
TIER 03 — RETAINER

Fractional Data Leadership

An ongoing retained partnership. Continuous development, monitoring, governance, and strategic data advisory — your fractional Head of Data, without the overhead.

£1,500 – £3,500 per month, ongoing
Why Ironbark

Built different.
From the ground up.

Senior-only delivery

No junior analysts, no account managers. The people who sell the work are the people who do it. Senior expertise on every engagement.

Technical depth that speaks boardroom

Deep Snowflake, SQL, and pipeline expertise paired with an LLB background — rigorous thinking in both technical and legal contexts.

Audit-qualified financial credibility

The financial partner brings audit qualification and board-level language. A CFO and a CTO both recognise themselves in our proposition.

Governance built in, not bolted on

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
How It Starts

From first call to
trusted partner.

01
Discovery Call

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.

FREE — 45 MINS
02
Audit Proposal

Fixed-price Discovery & Audit proposal within 48 hours. Clear scope, clear deliverables, clear price. No surprises.

48 HRS TURNAROUND
03
Deep Audit

Structured 2–3 week assessment of your full data landscape. Findings report with prioritised roadmap delivered at a formal presentation.

2–3 WEEKS
04
Build & Retain

Proceed to build engagement and, when ready, transition to a retainer. Continuous improvement, ongoing governance, and strategic data leadership.

ONGOING PARTNERSHIP
The Numbers

What good looks like.

2–3wk
Discovery Turnaround

Fixed-price audit from kickoff to findings presentation

100%
Senior Delivery

No hand-offs to junior analysts. Senior expertise throughout

£5m+
Target Client Size

Mid-market businesses with cloud tools and data ambition

Founding Skills

Technical engineering + audit-qualified finance. A rare pairing

Get In Touch

Start with a
conversation.

Let's talk about your data.

ADDRESS 80 Langdale Road
Sale, Cheshire
M33 4FL
SERVICE UK mid-market businesses
Remote-first with on-site available
FIRST STEP Book a free 45-minute
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IRONBARK
CONSULTING LTD

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We respond to all enquiries within one business day. The discovery call is completely free and without obligation.