A small consultancy built around one specialty: Microsoft Fabric & Power BI.
Stark Informatics exists because too many Fabric projects stall in the gap between platform promises and production reality. We close that gap — and then teach your team how to keep it closed.
Our point of view
Microsoft Fabric collapsed a stack of services into one SaaS platform: OneLake, Data Factory, Lakehouse, Warehouse, Real-Time Intelligence, Data Science, Power BI, and the new Fabric IQ layer for ontologies and agents. That collapsing is a gift to engineering teams — and a trap for the unprepared.
Teams that succeed treat Fabric as a single product with strong opinions, not a buffet of services to be wired up. They invest early in OneLake structure, semantic models, capacity strategy, and governance. They use Direct Lake mode deliberately. They design domains before workspaces. They build agents on top of curated semantic models — not raw lakehouse files.
That's the work we do.
How we're different
Senior-only delivery
Every consultant has shipped multiple production Fabric or Power BI solutions. No staffing pyramid, no learning on your dime.
Open-source-by-default
Our accelerators are MIT-licensed and you keep them. The notebook patterns, the deployment scripts, the semantic model — all yours.
Capacity-aware from day one
We track Capacity Units against your spend from the first sprint. No "we'll worry about cost later" projects.
Bias for handover
Every engagement ends with documentation, runbooks, and a workshop. We measure success by whether your team can extend it without us.
Who we work with
Most clients fall into one of three patterns:
- Migrating from Synapse, Databricks, on-prem SQL, or Tableau into Fabric — and want to avoid lifting yesterday's mistakes into a new platform.
- Modernizing a Power BI estate that has grown organically and now needs governance, semantic discipline, and a path to Direct Lake.
- Building net-new AI-grounded analytics: ontologies, Data Agents, Operations Agents, and the curated data products they depend on.
The Minnesota tie
Stark Informatics is headquartered in Minneapolis. We work across North America — remote-first for delivery, on-site for kickoffs, strategy days, and enablement weeks. The name's not subtle: data, done in Minnesota.
Let's talk about your Fabric estate.
Whether you're a year into Fabric or evaluating it for the first time, a 30-minute call will sharpen your next decision.