Named roles only — logos withheld where NDAs require. These are review and consulting engagements, not product subscriptions.
“We booked the ETL review two weeks before a FSCA reporting freeze. Terra Pipeline flagged that our SCD2 effective dates used server local time instead of Africa/Johannesburg. Fixing that alone justified the spend.”
— Thabo R., head of analytics, short-term insurer
“The handover audit was uncomfortable — our runbook still mentioned a job we retired in 2023. Better to learn that on paper than at 2 a.m.”
— Erin V., platform lead, logistics co-op
“Design session was useful, though I wish we had invited the DBA earlier. Jaco’s notes on index strategy came late for our sprint plan — still valuable for the next phase.”
— Pieter S., product owner, agritech startup
A Eastern Cape health NGO exported weekly clinic aggregates from three legacy MySQL instances into Postgres. Incremental loads used MAX(updated_at) without tie-breakers, dropping rows that shared timestamps.
Our review documented the predicate, proposed a composite cursor, and pointed to two tests that would have caught regressions. The client implemented changes before flu season reporting; they have since booked a lighter retest pass.
A Cape Town retailer planned a returns fact table fed from Shopify and an in-house WMS. The design session settled grain at return line, not order, which avoided double-counting partial refunds.
The later review caught an orphaned staging table still referenced in Airflow — removed before go-live.