Data

What Data does

Data Inc is a UK-headquartered enterprise data, AI, and transformation consulting firm operating for over four decades from London. The firm serves regulated industries—primarily banking, insurance, and life sciences—with advisory, assurance, and AI-readiness services structured around three pillars: Consulting, Assurance, and AI Services.

Its core differentiators are proprietary trademarked methodologies: the Value Operating Model™ (a five-layer framework for governing transformation value from business case to financial statements), the Integrated Transformation Framework™ (a six-phase transformation lifecycle), Envalue™ (a live executive reporting application), the Enterprise Value Cockpit™, and the Enterprise AI Orchestration Stack. The AI Services portfolio spans ten integrated domains including strategic foundations, data discovery and control, architecture, engineering, quality, security, analytics, AI data readiness, DataOps, and continuous assurance. The Assurance practice (Value Assurance and Transformation Assurance) provides continuous governance embedded in client transformation programmes.

The firm operates a pure professional-services business model with project-based and retainer engagements sold through direct enterprise field sales targeting C-suite and board-level stakeholders in regulated industries. Pricing is quote-based and per-mandate. Revenue is generated through consulting fees, assurance engagements, and AI services. Headcount is 11–50 with leadership under President and CEO Anjanish Shekhar. The firm is privately held (Data Inc(UK) Limited, registered in England & Wales) with no disclosed funding, parent company, or public ownership structure.

Name

Data

Legal name

Data Inc(UK) Limited

Website

https://datainc.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1980

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Data Inc is a UK-based enterprise consulting firm providing data governance, AI readiness, and transformation assurance services to regulated industries—primarily banks, insurers, and life sciences firms—via proprietary frameworks like the Value Operating Model™ and Envalue™ application.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Enterprise Data and AI Consulting

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161), Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (54169), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Other Management Consulting Services (541618)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374)

akta.pro primary industry

Data, Analytics & AI Consulting (BPAHAEAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Data Strategy & Governance Services (BPAEAHAA), Data Platforms & Modern Data Stack Services (Lakehouse, DW, MDM) (BPAEAHAC), Data Analytics & Business Intelligence Services (BPAHALAC), Advanced Analytics & Data Science Services (BPAEAHAE)

Keywords

• Enterprise data consulting
• Data governance services
• Transformation assurance
• AI readiness advisory
• Risk and compliance consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Consulting Services: Professional services engagements including strategic consulting, transformation programmes, AI readiness assessments, and enterprise data governance mandates. Typically structured as project-based or retainer engagements with enterprise clients.
2. Assurance Services: Embedded assurance services for AI-driven enterprises, including Value Assurance and Transformation Assurance. Operationalises continuous governance across transformation and BAU investment.
3. AI Services: Enterprise AI readiness services spanning strategy, architecture, engineering, quality, security, analytics and operational control across ten integrated service domains.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Data Inc is an enterprise consulting firm that helps regulated enterprises turn data, AI, and large-scale transformation programmes into board-measurable business value. The firm sells project-based and retainer Consulting, Assurance (Value Assurance and Transformation Assurance), and AI-readiness engagements, operationalised through proprietary trademarked methodologies — the Value Operating Model™ with the Envalue™ application, the Integrated Transformation Framework™, and the Enterprise AI Orchestration Stack.

Product overview

Data Inc is an enterprise consulting company offering a comprehensive portfolio of advisory services structured around three core pillars: Consulting, Assurance, and AI Services. The company provides specialised consulting across Customer Experience, Profitability/Value/Growth, Climate/Sustainability/ESG, Risk/Compliance/Trust, Digital Transformation, Operational Resilience, and Cybersecurity. Its Assurance practice comprises Value Assurance and Transformation Assurance, operationalised through proprietary intellectual property including the Value Operating Model™, Integrated Transformation Framework™ (ITF), and Envalue™ reporting application. The AI Services portfolio covers ten integrated domains spanning strategic foundations, data discovery and control, architecture and platform, data integration and engineering, quality and trust, security and privacy, analytics and decision intelligence, AI data readiness, DataOps, and continuous assurance. The offering is delivered through the Enterprise AI Readiness Stack—a six-layer orchestration framework—rather than a software product.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Envalue™: The Ontology of Value - A Value Operating Model methodology that provides board-grade evidence of what transformation is creating, attributed, reconciled, and decision-ready.

Products and services

• Value Operating Model™ (VOM) Methodology for operationalising value accountability across the full scope of institutional investment — making enterprise value continuously visible, attributable and reconcilable to financial statements for senior leadership and boards.
• Envalue™ – The Ontology of Value A board-grade evidence system for AI-enabled transformation that connects business case to operational driver, source evidence, metric movement, attributed value, and executive action — providing a continuously governed position on what transformation is creating.
• Integrated Transformation Framework™ (ITF) Operating architecture for governing and executing enterprise change that connects data architecture, operating model design, delivery governance and value management into a single structured lifecycle benchmarked against PMI, MSP, SAFe, DAMA-DMBOK and COBIT.
• Enterprise Value Cockpit™ Application through which the Value discipline is operationalised, providing executive-facing live value indicators, benefit-evidence views and variance alerts for ongoing governance of transformation programmes.
• Customer Experience Services Consulting service domain covering AI-powered personalisation, journey analytics, customer-intelligence architecture, real-time journey orchestration, voice-of-customer analytics, and precision audience segmentation for engagement and loyalty.
• Profitability, Value and Growth Services Consulting service domain covering enterprise value instrumentation, margin and capital decision discipline, data-driven revenue optimisation, cost-to-serve optimisation, FinOps, pricing and margin intelligence, and executive financial performance visibility.
• Climate, Sustainability and ESG Data Services Consulting service domain covering decision-grade ESG analytics, AI-enabled validation, CSRD and IFRS S1/S2 alignment, ESG data office and operating model, carbon data traceability, materiality modelling, GreenOps, climate risk quantification, and supply chain ESG transparency.
• Risk, Compliance and Trust Services Consulting service domain covering prudential AI and model governance (EU AI Act, ISO 42001, PRA), model risk management, BCBS 239 alignment, operational resilience, third-party risk oversight, data protection, privacy-enhancing technologies, and security risk analytics.
• Digital Transformation and Innovation Services Consulting service domain covering data migration accelerator, data product and mesh enablement, synthetic data engineering, federated enablement frameworks, AI-native platform strategy, modernisation playbooks, and agentic AI integration.
• Operational Resilience and Data-Driven Controls Services Consulting service domain covering critical service continuity, continuous control assurance, real-time operational visibility, service-level governance, third-party resilience, data integrity, cost discipline, and executive resilience reporting.
• Cybersecurity Services Consulting service domain covering zero-trust enterprise architecture, identity-centric security governance, AI-enabled threat and behavioural intelligence, continuous control validation, cloud and DevSecOps security, data integrity and model protection, third-party cyber risk governance, and board cyber risk intelligence.
• Value Assurance Embedded assurance service that governs what investment creates — making return visible at board metric level (RoTE, cost-to-income, CET1, AuM, NIM) through the Value Operating Model methodology.
• Transformation Assurance Embedded assurance service that governs how change is executed — embedding a governed evidence trail from strategic intent through delivery to measurable outcome within the Integrated Transformation Framework.
• Enterprise AI Readiness Services Portfolio of ten integrated AI-readiness service domains covering strategy, architecture, engineering, quality, security, analytics, AI enablement, DataOps, and assurance for industrialising the full data estate required for AI at scale.
• Enterprise AI Orchestration Stack Six-layer enterprise orchestration framework (Client Value, Enterprise Flow, Operating Model Dynamics, Execution Foundations, Real-Time Governance, Outcomes) aligning strategy, operations, governance and automation into an integrated AI-ready architecture.

Quantifiable outcome

• Value Operating Model connects programme activity to board metrics including RoTE, cost-to-income, CET1, AuM, NIM — enabling traceable measurement from business case to financial statements
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments9 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability13 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses (UK) ProgrammeminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Data Inc's participation in the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses UK programme demonstrates commitment to supporting SME growth. The firm contributed expertise and resources to help small businesses scale through data-driven approaches, reflecting a broader societal impact agenda.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Market position

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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