We build the software and analytics that move decisions forward.
Roots Data partners with leadership teams to design custom software, turn scattered data into trusted insight, and chart a clear strategy. We stay with you from the first workshop to production.
We build with the platforms your teams already trust
Python
PostgreSQL
TypeScript
Google BigQuery
Apache Airflow
Apache Spark
Snowflake
MongoDB
Redis
Grafana
Proven across engineering, analytics and strategy
Three disciplines that most firms keep in separate buildings. We put them in one team so the strategy is buildable and the software answers the question it was meant to.
120+
Projects delivered
10 yrs
Building with data
8
Sectors served
95%
Clients who return
Senior practitioners who stay for delivery.
Most engagements do not fail on the technology. They fail because the people who sold the work are not the people who do it.
Senior people do the work
The people who scope your engagement are the people who deliver it. No handover to a junior team after signature.
Decisions, not dashboards
We start from the decision you need to make, then work backwards to the data. Most of what we build is what we agreed not to build.
Built to be handed over
Documented pipelines, plain-language runbooks and training for your team. You own the code and the account from day one.
Evidence you can defend
Every number traces back to a source. When your board or auditor asks how a figure was reached, there is an answer.
Four ways to work with us.
Start small if you are not sure yet. Most long engagements began with the two-week diagnostic.
Diagnostic
A short, fixed-price look at the data, systems and decisions at stake. You get a written assessment and a costed plan, whether or not you build it with us.
Clarity before commitment
Project build
A defined platform, dashboard or integration delivered in two-week increments, with working software at the end of every sprint.
Shipped, documented software
Embedded team
Our engineers and analysts work alongside your team inside your tools and rituals, adding capacity without a hiring cycle.
Capability that stays
Advisory
Senior cover for roadmap, architecture and governance decisions — for leadership teams that need judgment more than headcount.
Decisions made with evidence
What we do
Three disciplines. One accountable team.
Most problems need more than one skill set. We combine engineering, analytics and strategy so nothing gets lost between handovers.
Selected work
Results we can put a number on.
Eight sectors we work in every month.
The problems repeat across sectors. The constraints do not — regulation, connectivity and seasonality all change the answer.
Financial services
Banks, SACCOs, insurers and regulated fintechs where reporting must be accurate, timely and defensible.
What we see
- Regulatory returns assembled by hand each month
- Customer and transaction data split across core systems
- Fraud and risk signals that arrive too late to act on
What we do
We consolidate core banking, mobile and CRM data into a governed warehouse, then automate the returns and dashboards your teams currently rebuild every month.
5 days
Typical close-time reduction
How we work
A clear path from question to production.
- 01
Discover
Workshops and data audits to understand the real problem, constraints and what success looks like.
- 02
Design
Architecture, prototypes and a delivery plan you can review before a line of production code.
- 03
Build
Short, visible iterations with working software and dashboards every two weeks.
- 04
Support
Handover, training and ongoing optimisation so the value compounds after launch.
What clients say when we are not in the room.
Names withheld at client request · Attribution by role and sector
Roots Data didnu2019t just build us a dashboard. They helped us decide which questions mattered. Six months on, itu2019s the first screen our leadership team opens every morning.
Our month-end close used to consume two people for most of a week. It now runs itself. The numbers also stopped disagreeing between finance and operations, which mattered just as much.
What stood out was the handover. Documentation, runbooks, a training session for each team. We have not had to call them once to keep the platform running.
They pushed back on two of our three proposed features and were right both times. That saved us a quarter of wasted build.
We had eleven years of transaction data nobody had ever looked at properly. They found the patterns in three weeks and the first one paid for the engagement.
Donor reporting was eating our programme staff alive. It is now generated from the same systems the field teams already use, and the reports are consistent for once.
Questions we are asked before every engagement.
Anything not covered here, just ask — we answer plainly.
Most engagements begin within two to three weeks of the first conversation. If you need an answer sooner, the two-week diagnostic is designed to give you one without a long commitment.
Tell us what you are trying to decide.
A short note about the problem is enough. We reply to every enquiry within two working days with a clear, no-obligation next step.
- info@rdanalytica.com
- Office
- Nairobi, Kenya
Part of the RD Analytica family