Fractional Head of Data
Senior data leadership.
Without the headcount.
Your SME generates data. It shapes your customers, your risk, your operations.
But hiring a full-time Head of Data or Chief Data Officer is expensive,
premature, and often the wrong fit at your stage.
I work with you one or two days a week — embedded in your team,
aligned to your goals — bringing the statistical rigour and open-data
methodology of a senior data scientist without the full-time cost.
The gap
What SMEs face. What I solve.
The problem
- Data piling up with no systematic analysis
- Dashboards that show what happened, not why
- No capacity to build forecasting or risk models
- Regulatory and public data going unmonitored
- Decisions made on point estimates — no uncertainty quantified
What I bring
- Bayesian models that expose uncertainty explicitly
- Open data synthesis as competitive intelligence
- Probabilistic forecasting with confidence bounds
- Data strategy aligned to business decisions
- Research-grade analysis at consultancy speed
Engagement models
How we work together.
- Map current data assets and gaps
- Identify top three analytical opportunities
- Prioritised roadmap with effort/impact estimates
- Written report + presentation
- Embedded strategic data partner
- Model building, forecasting, Bayesian inference
- Open data monitoring for your sector
- Team mentoring and methodology review
- Monthly decision-support reports
- Async availability between days
- One focused deliverable: model, forecast, or analysis
- Suitable for academic collaborations
- Publication-ready output
- Full code and documentation handover
To protect quality I take on only a few fractional clients at a time — openings are currently available.
A risk-free startMy promise to you.
Satisfaction guarantee
If the fixed-scope audit doesn't surface at least its fee's worth of clear, actionable value, you don't pay for it. The risk is mine, not yours.
No long contracts
The fractional engagement runs month to month, cancellable on 30 days' notice. You're never locked in — we continue only as long as I'm adding value.
Free analysis upfront
Before I invoice a single euro, I pull one non-obvious finding from an open data source in your sector — and show it to you. You see the work before you commit.
A tailored mini-analysis + whitepaper
Book an intro call and I'll run a free mini-analysis on one open data source of your choice ahead of time, and send it alongside my whitepaper on Bayesian causal inference. A concrete sample of what you get — no strings attached.
Best fit
Who this is for.
Healthcare & pharma
Register data, clinical outcomes, patient flow modelling, regulatory analytics.
Legal & policy
Legislative analytics, EU directive tracking, regulatory change modelling.
Research orgs
Academic collaboration, statistical analysis for publications, open data methodology.
Data-generating SMEs
Any organisation with data but no internal senior statistical capacity.
Let's find out if this fits.
The first conversation costs nothing — and you leave with a free upfront analysis. We discuss your data, your decisions, and whether a fractional engagement makes sense for your stage. The audit is satisfaction-guaranteed, and the fractional engagement carries no lock-in.
Book a call + free analysis → or email kristian.vepsalainen@proton.me