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Analytics System Risk & Reliability Audit

Identify structural risk, fragility, and change-failure points in your analytics systems, without touching business metrics or BI semantics.

Many startups rely on analytics and data systems that are business-critical but fragile.
They technically work, yet changes feel risky, failures make it to production, and no one has a complete picture of how everything fits together.

This audit is a short, focused assessment designed to make those risks visible and manageable.

Is this for you?

This audit is typically useful if two or more of the following sound familiar:

Changes feel risky

Even small updates to pipelines or integrations require extra caution, rollbacks, or “hope it doesn’t break” deployments.

No one understands the whole system

Knowledge is fragmented, outdated, or tied to individuals who are no longer available.

Failures are detected too late

Issues surface via dashboards, stakeholders, or downstream effects rather than clear alerts.

Ownership is unclear

When something breaks, it’s not obvious who is responsible for diagnosing or fixing it.

The system works, but isn’t trusted

Outputs exist, but teams double-check numbers and hesitate to rely on them for decisions.

Progress slows as the system grows

Each new source, integration, or requirement increases complexity and friction disproportionately.

What this audit does not include

How data actually moves from sources through transformations to outputs.
Failure modes and blast radius

What can break, how likely it is, and what the downstream impact would be.
Change risk

Which parts of the system are safe to modify, and which are brittle or tightly coupled.
Operational reliability

Monitoring, alerting, observability, and recovery paths.
Ownership and maintainability

Responsibility gaps, documentation issues, and long-term sustainability risks.
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What this audit does not include

To keep scope clear and the outcome useful, the audit explicitly does not cover:

  • Metric definitions or business semantics
  • Dashboard or BI tool design
  • Data modelling for analytics or reporting
  • Implementation, refactoring, or delivery work
  • Ongoing consulting or retainers
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Pricing

The audit is offered on a fixed-price basis, typically:

£2,500 – £5,000, depending on system size and complexity.

There is no obligation to continue beyond the audit.