Senior data hands,
one to three days a week.
A fractional day is a standing day: the same day each week, a named scope, and your reporting kept trusted and used. The numbers your decisions run on, without a senior hire and without a tool to sell you.
The maths most scale-ups never do
The full-time seat, or the standing day.
A permanent head of data is a six-figure commitment before a single decision is made: salary, on-costs, and a recruitment fee on top. Most companies at this stage need the judgement, not the full-time seat. You pay only for the days you use, agreed up front, with no permanent on-costs and no recruitment fee.
Choose your days
Move the slider. What fits in the week moves with it.
What fits in 1 day
The numbers your meetings run on stay trustworthy: broken or stale reports are caught weekly, before they mislead a decision.
Every metric that matters has a signed definition and a living owner, so "whose number is right?" stops being a question.
You see the true state of your reporting every week, in one table, ugly rows included.
Nothing decays in silence: drift is flagged the week it happens, not the quarter after.
A good shape: a reporting estate that runs, but where trust quietly erodes.
The slider shows the shape, not a promise. Every estate is different; the diagnosis fixes the scope.
The rules that keep it honest
Fractional work burns both sides if the edges are soft, so the edges are written down before the first day.
The day is fixed in the agreement and the work queues for it. Nothing interrupts your team, or my other clients, between the named days.
Fractional work on an estate with no owners and no baseline is weekly firefighting. The fixed-fee diagnosis, or an estate I have already validated, comes first.
Restoring a signed state is inside the day, at any effort. Anything that adds capability is a build, scoped and quoted before I touch it.
One quarter minimum. Renewal is a decision on both sides, not a default, so the arrangement stays honest.
Only need light-touch upkeep, not a standing weekly presence? Reporting Care is the quarterly version of this.
Related reading: Head of Data: full-time vs fractional is the wrong question
This is the right fit if...
- You need senior hands on the reporting estate every week, but not a full-time hire.
- The review queue of model and dashboard changes keeps growing, and nobody owns it.
- You are mid-rebuild and want the rebuild to actually land, not just ship.
This is not the right fit if...
- You need four or five days a week: that is a contract, priced and papered differently.
- Your estate has no owners and no baseline: the diagnosis comes first.
- You want hands without direction: fractional leads as well as builds.
A standing day, priced on a call
I keep fractional days limited, so embedded work never dilutes project work. If you need four or five days a week, that is a contract, and it is priced and papered differently.
30-minute call, no obligation. If it isn't the right fit, I'll say so.
Days are priced per engagement and agreed before we start, billed monthly, quarterly minimum.