The first engagement

Data Readiness Assessment

A fixed-scope, three-week diagnostic that replaces unpaid discovery with a paid, structured look at what your data can carry today, and what it can't yet. The honest way an engagement begins.

Why it's needed

You don't build data products, or chase AI, on a foundation you haven't inspected. This replaces vague, unpaid discovery with three paid, structured weeks: a specific readout on your systems, your definitions, and your decisions.

Inspection tells you what's broken. Validation tells you what's ready. MARVEN does both, in that order.

The three weeks

One job per week. You walk away with a scored readout and a roadmap.

Week 1

Inspect

How your business actually produces and consumes its numbers, end to end.

Surfaces what's broken.

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Week 2

Validate

What actually holds up when you put real questions to it.

Confirms what's ready.

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Week 3

Map

Every gap matched to the specific work that closes it.

A scored readout and a roadmap.

Then it flows into the engagement: build, refresh, enhance. The diagnostic never fully ends.

What gets inspected

The foundation itself. Where your numbers come from, how sources join, and whether two teams asking the same question get the same answer.
How the work is documented. What lives in systems versus what lives in the heads of a few indispensable people.
Who can reach what. Access, entitlements, and the quiet friction they create between a question and its answer.
What your stack can carry. The honest distance between the tools you own and the decisions you want them to power.
How you would know if a number drifted. Whether anything watches the watchers.
How decisions actually get made. The operating rhythm your data does, or does not, keep up with.

Signs you need one

If more than one of these sounds like you, the foundation is the thing to fix first.

Two teams ask the same question and get different answers.
Strategy keeps stalling on "we don't trust the numbers."
You're about to invest in BI or AI and need the foundation to carry it.
You're integrating systems after an acquisition.
A number can't be traced to its source without a person.
The knowledge that runs the business lives in three people's heads.

What you get

A scored readout

Where you stand across the areas above, rated, not hand-waved.

The gaps

The specific things holding your decisions back, named plainly.

The roadmap

Each gap mapped to the work that closes it, in priority order.

If the engagement continues, the diagnostic never really ends. Start with the Assessment, stay with the practice.

Duration

Three weeks, fixed scope

Fee

Fixed, scoped to the size of your operation. Quoted before anything is signed.

Who it fits

Multi-location operators, roughly $25M to $2B+ revenue, with BI in place and a strategy that data friction keeps slowing down

Who it does not fit

Operators with no BI at all, or with a full warehouse and data team already humming

Begin with a conversation

Thirty minutes about your operation and the decision that is waiting on better numbers. If the Assessment fits, you will know exactly what the three weeks look like before anything is signed.

Let’s Talk