Data & AI engineering — New South Wales, Australia
Skopura closes the gap between the data you already hold and the decisions you actually make.
What we do
Each stands alone. Together they take an organisation from raw source systems to systems that act without being asked.
LLM systems that do work, not demos. Agents that read your real data, take real actions, and fail safely when they shouldn't.
The unglamorous layer everything else depends on. Warehouses, models and semantic layers that stay correct under load and under change.
For organisations that need senior judgement more than another contractor. Embedded leadership, hands on the keyboard when it matters.
Recurring work turned into a pipeline that runs itself — built once, monitored continuously, handed over with the keys.
How we work
Long discovery phases are how consultancies protect themselves.
Step 01
One week, fixed fee. We map what you have, what it costs you, and which single bottleneck is holding the rest hostage. You get the findings whether or not you engage us further.
Step 02
A working vertical slice against production-shaped data — not a slide deck, not a sandbox. If the approach is wrong, you find out in week two rather than month six.
Step 03
Tests, monitoring, cost controls and failure paths go in before scope goes out. Every pipeline we ship tells you when it breaks.
Step 04
Documented, in your repos, in your tenancy, runnable by your team. We're comfortable being the firm you no longer need.
Selected work
Three engagements, described by what changed rather than what was promised.
Retail media
A national retail media network whose nightly Power BI refresh had grown past three hours and was routinely failing.
Rescoped the partitions rather than the trigger method, rebuilt the semantic model, and moved campaign facts onto a daily-grain table.
3h → 10m refresh window
Publishing
A cross-border financial publisher needing daily market commentary in two languages, at a quality it could defend.
Scheduled generation pipeline with a fact-check gate, standing-facts registry, and automated publication behind a single concurrency group.
220+ articles automated
Property services
A property group sending weekly client updates by hand, from data that was stale before it arrived.
Warehouse-to-CRM sync, a data agent over the warehouse, and templated assembly delivered on a fixed weekly schedule as held drafts.
Weekly hands-off delivery
Fractional leadership
Mid-market companies rarely need a full-time data executive — they need one for two days a week, who writes code as readily as strategy. Embedded, accountable, and priced so you can end it any month.
Get in touch
A thirty-minute call, no deck. If we're not the right firm for it, we'll say so and point you at who is.
Or email directly —
hello@skopura.com
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