Areas of Expertise

CAN’s role is to provide leadership, mentorship, and value to companies as they implement data driven decision making into their processes. While we say we can BE your data science team while we BUILD you a data science team, it’s more than that. CAN helps organizations:  INNOVATE their processes, TRAIN teams to perform and manage information-driven decision making, INCUBATE a data science team, and MENTOR the organization as they embark on the process of future proofing their company.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Over the last few years, CAN has become Omaha (and its surrounding Community)’s Premier AI builder and trainer. Partly because CAN has been successfully implementing Machine Learning Projects for years and AI is a subset of ML, and partly because when we implement ML as a philosophy, we go through the same process needed as AI. 

WHAT THAT MEANS FOR YOU:

If you want to build a custom AI (or just a custom implement notation of an AI)…

If you want to use AI to automate an extremely labor intensive part of your process…

If you want to take your company from the Machine Learning phase of the automated recommendations to automated decision making…

…we can do that.

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We can help guide you through the very necessary discussions at a leadership level you should be having: data quality, data leadership, data projects (especially the first one), data ownership, data flow, data dissemination, data security. Miss even one, or start with the wrong project you could implode of the whole movement.

Building AI is hard and is not usually an off-the-shelf solution like promised by a hundred vendors. It is a carefully navigated, mostly custom implementation of philosophy.

DATA LEADERSHIP

We can be your FRACTIONAL CHIEF DATA OFFICER

Data has increasingly become the currency by which decisions are made, value is proven, and by which actual revenue is created inside of organizations. It has become paramount that an organization appoint a leader whose sole purpose is the ownership, stewardship, and management of this currency. This role is called a Chief Data Officer. 

The problem is CDOs are rare, very expensive, answer only to the CEO, are equal to the other C-suite executives, and have the technical expertise to command and build a technical team to manage the collection, flow, and enhancement of the data. 

This rarity is further exacerbated by the fact that the need is never 50/50 leader/technologist. It varies through the first year and even meeting to meeting. 

Hiring CAN to fill the CDO role fractionally, gives the organization the perfect combination of the two people, because it’s actually two people: A C-level leader and a technologist.

This means your company gets to use whichever person  is needed at that particular meeting or session (or both at the same time–which actually happens a lot in the first few months). This gives you certainty your data initiative is executable and sustainable.

By the hour, for the need. A fractional leader to make your company better.

ANALYTICS AND DATA MANAGEMENT

DASHBOARDS & VISUALIZATION

The starting point for any data-driven business is dashboards and visualization. Dashboards allow you to understand your data significantly faster as well as absorb more information and access data dynamically by seeing historic trends, exploring the data, and asking the data questions.

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

Business Intelligence (BI) solutions can take many forms with different methods. We are interested in finding the right solution that helps you understand your data and make decisions faster.

Predictive Analytics

Prediction gives organizations the ability to know what is about to happen. Imagine knowing which customers are going to leave before they leave, or which product their most likely to buy before they buy it. You customize the process for the outcome you want. Proactive sales, marketing, customer service, and operations will change your organization in ways you didn’t know were possible. This is the power of Predictive Analytics.

DATA ENGINEERING

Data is the new currency of an organization. It has to be cultivated, monitored, moved, stored, and manipulated in ways you have never done. This role is called Data Engineering, and is becoming more important each day. You can’t do predictive analytics and certainly AI without having someone in charge of it. (You also need a C-level in charge of the philosophy of the company’s data which is called a Chief Data Officer)

CAN has talent in helping with Data Lakes, Data Warehouses, ETL, Pipelines, APIs, and is very good at structuring your data in such a way to get faster load times, quicker reporting and efficiencies between departments.

MODEL DEVELOPMENT

Model support & Maintenance

Ah yes, MLOPs. The bane of every data scientist we know. Once you invent it, it must be maintained. Weirdly enough, maintenance is never a skill set of the inventor. Its usually handed to Data Engineering, but it’s not really their job either. Companies now have the option of using CAN to augment your R&D data science team to do what they do best–invent, and give you the support and maintenance of the models needed to actually realize the predicted ROI.

Custom Software Development

Sometimes your problem needs more than just a model, it needs a whole custom software solution. Or, after creating a solution for your company, you realize it is something others in your industry would pay for and you want to productize your solution. Both require custom software development. CAN has helped multiple companies build out entire software applications. Furthermore, our apps are different as they focus on the data instead of being pretty. We use a proprietary framework we have invented called “Pretty Last” which makes your app better from the beginning. 

Let us show you how we are different and how our applications work better.

Company Support

Stategy & Vision

The experience and wisdom it takes to provide Strategy and Vision in data driven decision making or AI implementation isn’t cheap. In fact, a principal level data scientist, AI Engineer, or C-level Data Officer would likely be the most expensive person on your payroll. Finding them is hard, keeping them is impossible. After all, how do you handle only needing their high level skill  for a few weeks but not all the time? You can’t ask them to do menial tasks after designing a strategy for your entire company. Too expensive to hire full time, too valuable not to have them. 

Hiring CAN alleviates this conundrum.

We work in multiple industries, building multiple types of solutions and bring that experience to you on a part time or fractional basis. This gives you all the wisdom at a fraction of the cost. 

It’s the best of both worlds when you use CAN. 

Research & Development

If you ask your team what they want, they will likely respond with ways to make the current solution marginally better. While this is innovation, it is far from invention. True R&D takes has to exist outside of the normal channels that kill outside thought and the meetinged-to-death that kills great ideas. However, done right, it has the opportunity to propel the company for years and decades to come. 

CAN has helped multiple organizations by being their outside R&D. 

Experience the difference of using an organization that invents every day, inventing for you!

Staff Training

As companies start to embrace making data-driven decisions, the need for qualified people becomes more urgent. Instead of hiring a new data person, train from within. Training within is a great way to reward your best employees, and is significantly faster and less expensive than its alternative, hiring from outside.

CAN has developed skill based training for 1 (the ODSA) or for a group (corporate training). Either way, you get the skill and wisdom of CAN employees teaching your employees the necessary skillsets they need to be successful. 

Bonus! Because it can be through our licensed academy, you become qualified to use Department of Labor funds to augment the cost.

MASTERS AND MINIONS | Part of the TWO-CAN APPROACH

Many times in data science – after you have built a team, a process, and found talent, you need one of two things:

master data scientist

Minions of Early Talent Levels

Both of these needs are extremely temporary. A Master Data Scientist is someone you need to help with strategy and vision, perhaps to help with an expert level crisis or conundrum. These Masters are extremely helpful, often knowing the answer or how to build something from experience. They are, however, so extremely expensive, you cannot keep them on payroll on the off chance you will need them at some point.

Just as important is the occasional need for a multitude of hours to be spent on tasks that are important, but menial in their execution. These tasks like overhauling a group of models because of a tech stack change, adding an additional column of data added to a hundred tables, or migrating your fleet of dashboards to a new software. These tasks could absolutely be carried out by your team, but your team are already busy doing regular data science work for the org. What you need is 7 Minions to show up, do a myriad of tasks, and then go away. 

CAN has the ability to supply both the Master and the Minions. We help keep your data science team on task, and on target.
The ultimate standby team for all your data science needs.