What Pandata does

Pandata is an AI design and development consultancy founded in 2016 in Cleveland, Ohio, by Cal Al-Dhubaib, focused exclusively on serving high-risk, regulated industries — specifically healthcare and life sciences, financial services, energy, and defense. The firm positions itself around the four pillars of trusted AI: security, fairness, transparency, and auditability, and operates a professional services model delivering AI Discovery & Design, AI Development, High Risk Industry AI Solutions, Trusted AI, Advisory Services, and AI Workshop engagements. Its client base of 60+ organizations includes Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute, University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center, Progressive Insurance, FirstEnergy, Parker Hannifin, Hyland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Penn State University, Thrivable, and Sequoia Reinsurance Services.

The company's underlying technology stack spans NLP (sentiment analysis, key phrase extraction, text classification, summarization, LLM work including PaLM), computer vision (museum viewership analytics, medical imaging), structured/tabular and time-series analytics (predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, fraud detection), and multimodal pipelines combining text summarization with categorization and knowledge retrieval. A notable proprietary asset is the "Equity Kernel," a four-level methodology (metrics, bias reduction in underlying data, bias reduction in model output, and human feedback) for measuring and addressing bias in recommender system outputs. The team is concentrated at 11-50 employees with strong academic credentials, drawing heavily from Case Western Reserve University.

Pandata generates revenue through professional services consulting engagements sold via direct enterprise sales to mid-market and enterprise clients, typically on multi-year scopes; pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. In 2022, the firm closed $1 million in new business in the first half of the year, and over its lifetime it has completed 80-100+ AI/ML projects. In 2024, Pandata was acquired by Further, a privacy-first AI solutions firm, with founder Cal Al-Dhubaib transitioning to lead AI and data science at Further; Pandata now operates as a subsidiary of Further.

Name

Pandata

Legal name

Pandata LLC

Website

https://pandata.co

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Acquired

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Pandata is a Cleveland-based AI design and development consultancy serving high-risk, regulated industries including healthcare, financial services, defense, and energy, with a specialty in trusted, explainable, and human-centered AI solutions; acquired by Further in 2024.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Consulting Services

NAICS

Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415), Computer Systems Design Services (541512)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

AI/ML Solution Integration & MLOps Enablement (BPAEAAAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

AI/ML Engineering & Model Development Services (BPAEAHAF), Audit, Explainability & Accountability Tooling (traceability, reporting) (HDAAAKAL), AI Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Platforms (HDAAAMAA)

Keywords

• AI consulting services
• Machine learning development
• Trusted AI solutions
• High-risk industry AI
• Data science consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Cleveland

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. AI Consulting Services: Professional services revenue from AI design and development consulting, including AI discovery and design, AI development, high-risk industry AI solutions, and advisory services. Work with clients on multi-year scopes and projects.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Pandata is a Cleveland-based AI design and development consultancy that builds and deploys AI and machine learning solutions for high-risk industries including healthcare and life sciences, financial services, defense, and energy. Its services span AI Discovery and Design, AI Development, Trusted AI, High-Risk Industry AI Solutions, and Advisory Services, with a focus on human-centered, explainable, secure, and auditable AI systems. Since 2016 the firm has delivered 100+ multi-year AI/ML projects for 60+ clients and was acquired by Further in 2024.

Product overview

Pandata is an AI design and development consultancy serving high-risk industries including healthcare & life sciences, financial services, defense, and energy. The company operates a services-based model organized around its core AI Design & Development Services offering, which comprises specific modules including AI Discovery & Design (strategic use case identification), AI Development (model building and scaling), High Risk Industry AI Solutions (domain-specific expertise), Trusted AI (ethics and explainability framework), Advisory Services (strategy and governance consulting), and AI Workshop (team alignment sessions). The company has delivered over 100 AI and ML projects across 60+ clients since its founding in 2016, including work with organizations such as Cleveland Clinic, Progressive Insurance, FirstEnergy, Parker Hannifin, and Penn State University. Notably, Pandata was acquired by Further in 2024.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 80 AI and ML projects completed with global clients
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability11 records

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Theo. Wyes David, Ltd.minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCarlin Jackson, founder of Theo. Wyes David, Ltd., joined Pandata as Director of Platform Partnerships. The partnership brings extensive technological background and passion for operations and strategy to help Pandata bring new ideas into fruition.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Tiger Analytics: Tiger Analytics is an AI and analytics consulting firm that builds data science and ML solutions for enterprise clients in healthcare, financial services, and retail — closely overlapping Pandata's discovery, design, and model development offerings.
• Tredence: Tredence is a data science and AI engineering services firm building ML solutions for retail, CPG, financial services, and healthcare — directly parallel to Pandata's industry-aligned AI development services.
• Analytics8: Analytics8 is a boutique data and analytics consulting firm specializing in custom data solutions, data strategy, and ML enablement for mid-market and enterprise clients — closely matching Pandata's boutique, high-touch delivery model.
• Neal Analytics: Neal Analytics is a Microsoft-focused AI and data engineering consultancy delivering ML, MLOps, and responsible AI solutions to enterprises — overlapping Pandata in delivery of AI/ML engineering services with governance emphasis.
• Caserta: Caserta is a data and AI strategy consultancy that designs and implements enterprise ML platforms and analytics solutions, including responsible AI practices — comparable to Pandata in consulting-led AI delivery.
• Fractal Analytics: Fractal Analytics is an AI products and solutions provider delivering enterprise AI/ML consulting and decisioning products across regulated industries — comparable in consulting delivery, vertical mix, and emphasis on trusted/responsible AI.
• Slalom: Slalom is a mid-market-focused consulting firm with a sizable AI/ML and data science practice serving enterprise clients across healthcare, financial services, and energy — directly comparable to Pandata in service line, customer profile, and regional-plus-national delivery model.

Broad incumbents

• Accenture Applied Intelligence: Accenture's Applied Intelligence practice is a global AI/ML consulting and delivery arm that competes for the same enterprise AI discovery and development engagements as Pandata, but at vastly larger scale and with broader service portfolios.
• Deloitte AI & Data: Deloitte's AI & Data practice delivers enterprise AI consulting, trusted AI governance, and MLOps services — directly overlapping Pandata's offerings as part of a much larger portfolio across regulated industries.

Emerging players

• DataRobot: DataRobot combines an enterprise AI platform with professional services for AI deployment in regulated industries — adjacent to Pandata, intersecting in trusted AI/MLOps delivery but competing primarily via software rather than pure consulting.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ohpandata

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles16 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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