mantlepin
Product · Data · Technology

Good decisions.
Working systems.
Lasting change.

Product, data and technology decisions are usually the same decision. We bring them together, inside your team.

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Senior people. Shared ownership.Explore our approach

For the problems that
cross the org chart.

A roadmap that isn’t turning into releases. Data nobody quite trusts. A platform that takes more effort to run than it should. We help you work out what needs to change, then do the work.

01

Product with direction.

Turn an ambiguous problem into a useful next step. Connect user needs, business priorities and the decisions your team can act on.

Product discovery & delivery
02

Data with purpose.

Make data dependable and useful. Build the pipelines, contracts and ownership that help people trust what they’re working with.

Data engineering & governance
03

Technology that holds up.

Improve the systems you depend on. Work through architecture, delivery and reliability with the people who will operate them.

Platforms & technical leadership

The work.
The difference it made.

Selected prior experience of Mantlepin’s founder. Client identities remain confidential.

Data automation & quality

Bad data surfaced in minutes, not days.

PreviouslyDays
After automationMinutes
The problem
Bad data took days to surface in the business.
The work
Automated the business’s data function end to end, with built-in data quality checks.
The outcome
Quality checks flagged bad data within minutes, bringing issues to light much sooner.

Data contracts & validation

From agreed requirements to automated validation.

Connecting organisational agreement to working technical controls.

The challenge
Define shared requirements for data exchanged between organisations and make those requirements checkable.
The work
Took a cross-organisation data contract through to signature and built a validator to check incoming data against defined requirements.
The outcome
A signed agreement and executable checks for data structure, required fields, allowed values and consistency.

Part of your team.
Accountable for the work.

01

Understand what’s already there.

We start with the people, the system and the constraints. We agree on the problem and what a useful outcome looks like before choosing a solution.

02

Make the changes that matter.

Senior people work in your team, your repositories and your delivery rhythm. We ship small changes often, test our assumptions and adjust as we learn.

03

Leave ownership with you.

Knowledge moves throughout the engagement. Documentation, decisions and a named owner on your side are part of the work from the start.

Designed
to end.

A clear outcome. An agreed end point. A team that can carry the work forward.

We plan the handover before the kickoff, so progress continues after we leave.

Your team.
Your systems.
Your next chapter.

What needs
to work better?

Tell us what’s getting in the way. You don’t need a finished brief to start.

Based in South Africa. Working across borders.