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Six ways to engage with Stark Informatics.

Mix and match. Most clients start with a Foundations Assessment and graduate into a phased build. Engagement models are designed to fit how your finance team likes to buy: fixed-fee, T&M, or retainer.

2 weeks · Fixed fee

Fabric Foundations Assessment

A focused, two-week diagnostic of your current data estate, Fabric capacity, OneLake structure, semantic model health, security posture, and capacity economics. You leave with an annotated reference architecture, a phased roadmap, and a capacity sizing model.

Deliverables

  • Current-state architecture map
  • Target-state architecture proposal
  • Phased build plan with CU sizing
  • Executive readout + technical deep-dive
8–16 weeks · Fixed scope

End-to-End Solution Build

Ingest to insight, fully delivered. We use our medallion lakehouse accelerator and your domain logic to ship a production system: source connections, transformations, semantic model, Power BI reports, deployment pipelines, and runbooks.

Deliverables

  • Source-controlled Fabric artifacts
  • Direct Lake semantic model
  • CI/CD deployment pipelines
  • Runbooks, training, and 90-day support
6–12 weeks · Fixed scope

Power BI Modernization

For Power BI estates that have grown organically. We rationalize semantic models, move eligible workloads to Direct Lake, implement RLS/OLS, and establish governance via workspace taxonomy and deployment pipelines.

Deliverables

  • Tabular Editor & Best Practice Analyzer pass
  • Consolidated semantic model design
  • Direct Lake migration playbook
  • Governance & deployment baseline
8–20 weeks · Phased

Migration — Synapse, Databricks, on-prem

Move from Synapse SQL/Spark pools, Databricks, on-prem SQL Server, or Snowflake into Fabric without lift-and-shift drag. Includes parallel-run validation, capacity planning, and a workload-by-workload remap.

Deliverables

  • Migration assessment workbook
  • Source-to-Fabric mapping per workload
  • Parallel-run lakehouse for validation
  • Cutover plan and rollback strategy
6–10 weeks · Fixed scope

AI & Data Agents

Build governed conversational analytics on top of your curated data. We design ontologies in Fabric IQ, configure Data Agents over the right semantic models and KQL databases, and wire them into Teams or Copilot Studio for delivery.

Deliverables

  • Ontology + curated semantic model
  • Configured Data Agent with examples
  • Teams or Copilot Studio integration
  • Evaluation harness for response quality
Monthly retainer

Managed Care for Fabric

Ongoing partnership for teams that want a senior Fabric architect on call. Capacity tuning, semantic model reviews, incident response, monthly office hours, and a backlog of small enhancements.

Deliverables

  • Monthly architecture review
  • Capacity tuning & cost reporting
  • 4 hrs/week of senior consulting
  • Same-day response to capacity incidents
Engagement models

Three ways to buy what you need.

Pricing on request — but here's how engagements are typically shaped. Most clients combine a starter assessment with a fixed-scope build, then graduate into a retainer.

Starter

Fixed fee
2-week Foundations Assessment

Ideal for teams evaluating Fabric or scoping a major program. Senior-led, written deliverables, no junior staff.

  • Architecture & capacity assessment
  • Roadmap with phasing & sizing
  • Executive + technical readouts
  • One follow-up working session
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Build

Fixed scope
6–16 week engagements

The most common shape. Production deliverables, hands-on alongside your team, with knowledge transfer baked in.

  • Solution build with accelerators
  • Source-controlled artifacts & CI/CD
  • Runbooks & enablement workshops
  • 90-day post-launch support
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Managed Care

Monthly
Ongoing retainer

A senior Fabric architect, on call. Best for teams running production Fabric workloads who want continuity and accountability.

  • 4 hrs/week senior consulting
  • Monthly architecture & capacity review
  • Office hours for your engineers
  • Priority incident response
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What we deliberately don't do

Specialization works in both directions. There are things we choose not to take on so we can stay sharp on Fabric and Power BI.

  • Pure infrastructure work outside Fabric. If you need Azure landing zones designed, we'll bring in a partner.
  • Custom front-end app development. Power BI embedded and Copilot Studio surfaces, yes — bespoke React apps, no.
  • Staff augmentation. We deliver scoped outcomes, not bodies in seats.
  • Long-tail data engineering on non-Microsoft stacks. We can advise, but we don't lead Databricks-only or Snowflake-only programs.
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If a request falls outside our specialty, we'll tell you on the first call — and recommend someone who's a better fit.

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