Data Layer Health Assessment
A productized two-week diagnostic of your architecture, cost profile, and identified opportunities — delivered as an executive Briefing.
When the right first engagement isn't a contract — it's evidence. The Data Layer Health Assessment is a structured two-week diagnostic that produces a defensible answer to the question: what is our data layer actually costing us?
You are probably here because…
- You suspect your data layer is more expensive than it should be, but you can't quantify it.
- The board has asked for a credible, third-party view of your data infrastructure cost and risk.
- You're considering a major architecture change and want an evidence base before committing.
- You want to understand what working with Inteledyne (or Lake AI) feels like, before signing anything bigger.
Deliverables
- An 11-page executive Briefing covering current-state architecture, cost profile, strategic risk surface, a three-year cost model, and identified opportunities.
- An executive working session with leadership to walk the findings.
- All quantitative artifacts (cost-allocation model, risk profile) handed over for internal use.
- No vendor commitments. The assessment and the procurement are separate decisions.
From first call to handover.
Discovery week
Stakeholder interviews, system inventory, billing review, incident-record analysis. Approximately three hours of leadership time, three hours of engineering team time.
Analysis week
Synthesis, cost-allocation modeling, opportunity identification, Briefing authoring.
Executive walkthrough
Final delivery is an executive working session walking the Briefing — followed by handover of all quantitative artifacts.
Where this has been done before.
A fully populated sample Briefing for a fictitious mid-market industrial holding (Meridian Industries) is published on Lake AI — illustrative numbers, exact methodology and structure of an actual engagement.
Practice: Data Platforms
Bring us the problem you can already name.
The first conversation is free. If we are the right firm for it, we propose a scope in writing. If we are not, we tell you who to call.