Data Layer Health Assessment
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?
The right moment.
Engagements are most useful when the moment is right. Below are the situations where this kind of work has produced the most value — for the client, and for the architectures that have followed.
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.
Tangible 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.
Engagement structure.
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.
The full sample Briefing, methodology, and engagement details are published on Lake AI — see exactly what you'd receive.
Where this work has lived.
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.
Start with a conversation.
Reach out with the question on your mind. If this engagement is a fit for your moment, we'll talk about scope and structure.