phData

phData is a remote-first AI and data services company founded in 2014, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with team members across the United States, Latin America, and India. The firm works with enterprises on the harder half of the data problem: transforming data infrastructure and building production-ready AI systems intended to deliver measurable business value. Its technical span covers artificial intelligence, machine learning, data engineering, analytics, data infrastructure, and cloud data platforms, with a team composed of data engineers, AI specialists, architects, and consultants.

The company's practice is organised into four services. AI and Machine Learning Services build production-ready systems, moving enterprises beyond experimentation towards intelligent systems that compound value over time. Data Engineering Services address the foundations first - trusted data, scalable infrastructure, and well-connected operations - on the reasoning that AI deployed atop weak data foundations fails. Analytics Services are delivered end-to-end in partnership with platform leaders, while Advisory Services guide enterprise data and AI strategy and implementation.

This methodology - an insistence on strong data foundations before AI deployment - distinguishes the work from firms that begin with models. phData partners with Snowflake, AWS, Anthropic, dbt, Fivetran, and Sigma, and the practice spans enterprise data infrastructure, artificial intelligence, and cloud data platforms. For engineers, the appeal is complex, consequential data problems at enterprise scale, addressed with discipline about sequencing and engineering quality rather than novelty for its own sake.