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Fractional Data Lead
A senior data lead on a flat monthly plan. We keep your platform healthy, ship new reports and features one request at a time, and stay ahead of what's next — without a $180k/year hire.
Talk about your shopOutcomes
What you get, month after month.
- Your data platform stays healthy, current, and trusted month after month
- New reports and changes ship in days — not quarters
- Your team always has someone to bring data questions to
- A roadmap that evolves with your business priorities
- A flat monthly rate. No hour tracking, no surprise bills, no scope battles
Plans
Two ways to keep it running.
Care Plan
Keep it healthy.
- Pipeline, refresh, and data-quality monitoring
- Cloud cost watch, so the bill doesn't creep
- Monthly platform health report
- Small fixes included: a broken refresh, a renamed field, a new column on an existing report
- Requests acknowledged within one business day
Best for A platform that's live and mostly stable, where the priority is that the numbers keep showing up — and keep being right.
Data Lead
Keep it moving.
- Everything in the Care Plan
- An open request queue: add as many as you like, we work them one at a time
- Typical turnaround of 3–5 business days per request
- New reports, metrics, pipelines, and changes to Flujo-built apps
- Quarterly roadmap session with leadership
Best for A shop whose questions keep evolving — new reports, new metrics, new systems coming online — and that wants one person who knows the whole stack.
Bigger builds — a new app, a new source system, a warehouse migration — are scoped separately as fixed-price projects, so your monthly plan never turns into a surprise invoice.
How we work
The process.
Platform health review
Pipelines monitored. Costs watched. Data quality checked. Issues caught before your team notices them.
One request at a time
Your team adds requests to a shared queue. We work the top one, ship it, and move to the next. You set the order. No statement of work, no negotiation.
Roadmap session
A working session with finance, ops, and leadership — wherever data questions are piling up. Recurring questions become permanent reports.
Roadmap stewardship
We keep a living roadmap of what's next: integrations, automations, AI/conversational analytics. You stay ahead of where the data stack should go.
Deliverables
Exactly what you get.
- A flat monthly rate — no hour banks, no timesheets
- Requests acknowledged within one business day
- Monthly platform health report
- Quarterly roadmap session with leadership (Data Lead plan)
- All code, documentation, and IP remains yours
- Pause or cancel with 30 days' notice — no long-term lock-in
Fit check
This is right for you if…
You have a data platform live (built by us or someone else) and need someone to own it without making a full-time hire. Your reporting needs are steady but evolving. You'd rather have one trusted person who knows your business than a rotating cast of consultants. You see data as a long-term capability, not a one-time project.
It's probably not the right fit if…
You only need help once a year (book a project instead). You need someone embedded full-time or same-day turnaround on every request (you need a full-time hire — we can help you scope and interview). You want a Tier 1 helpdesk for end users (we focus on engineering and analytics, not user support).
Common questions
FAQs.
How do the two plans differ?
The Care Plan keeps a live platform healthy: monitoring, a monthly health report, and small fixes. The Data Lead plan includes all of that plus a rolling queue for new work — reports, metrics, pipelines, app changes — and a quarterly roadmap session. A sensible path: start on Data Lead while the platform is young, then move to Care once it settles.
What counts as one request?
Something you can describe in a sentence or two and we can ship in a few working days: a new report page, a new metric in the model, a pipeline from one more table, a change to an app screen. Bigger asks get broken into a sequence of requests — or scoped as a fixed-price project if that serves you better.
What if our needs spike one month?
The queue absorbs it. You decide what's on top, and we keep shipping in order. If you consistently need several things running in parallel, that's the signal to scope a project or make a full-time hire — and we'll tell you when you've reached that point.
How is it priced?
Each plan is a flat monthly rate, set up front based on the size of your platform and how many systems feed it. No hourly billing and no overage charges. We'll walk through both plans on a 30-minute call.
Can you also maintain custom apps you built?
Yes. The Care Plan keeps Flujo-built apps running; feature work on them goes through the Data Lead queue like any other request.
How does this compare to hiring a full-time data person?
A senior data engineer in the US runs $150k–$220k loaded. Our plans run a fraction of that for businesses that don't need full-time depth. You also avoid recruiting cost, ramp-up time, and the risk of a bad hire walking out with the keys to your stack.
Do you work with our existing IT team or vendor?
Yes. We collaborate with internal IT, MSPs, and other vendors regularly. Clear lanes, no turf wars.