How we help
People first, platform second, then independence
We start every engagement with a forward deployed data engineer, stand the platform up around your stack, and stay only as long as you want us.
You hire Sidecar
A dedicated forward deployed data engineer joins your team. They scope the work, onboard Sidecar to your stack, and start shipping, driving cost down and reliability up from week one.
- Dedicated engineer embedded with your team
- Scoping against your real warehouse, dbt project, and BI
- Immediate cost and reliability wins in the first weeks
Sidecar platform setup
We put observability in place, wire up continuous cost optimization, and set the platform up to maintain itself as your data changes.
- Freshness, volume, and schema monitoring with tests written for you
- Consistent, compounding spend reduction that keeps going after the first audit
- Catalog, lineage, and governance that stay current automatically
Use our service until you don't need us
The platform runs on its own once it's in place. Keep our team alongside you for bigger initiatives, or take the wheel entirely. The choice stays yours.
- No lock-in: the platform works without our people
- Scale our help up or down as your roadmap shifts
- Your team keeps the context, the tests, and the documentation
Founders
You work directly with the people who built it
AJ Rios
Cofounder & CEO
A data leader and staff analytics engineer at fast-growing startups, AJ spent his career inside data teams building platforms, fighting tech debt, and watching great engineers get buried in maintenance work.
James Webb
Cofounder & CTO
A data leader, data scientist, and data engineer, James built the context and agent infrastructure behind Sidecar after years shipping data systems that had to be right the first time.
Accolades
Proof from teams already running it
Median onboarding to a working agent on a customer's real stack
Cost reduction in the first month
Increase in development speed
Let's scope the first 30 days
We'll look at your stack together and show you exactly what your forward deployed engineer would tackle first.
Start your free trial