Datameal
AI & data engineering · Products · Dublin, Ireland

AI is only as good as the data underneath it.

Datameal is an AI and data company. We build the platforms, pipelines and governance that make enterprise data usable, then put AI on top of it where that genuinely earns its place — and we develop our own products from the same foundation.

01 · Services

AI engineering

Retrieval systems, document and text pipelines, agent workflows, and the evaluation harness that tells you whether any of it actually works.

02 · Services

Data engineering

Warehouses and lakehouses, ingestion and modelling, quality testing and lineage. The unglamorous layer everything else depends on.

03 · Products

Our own software

Tools that came out of consulting work and were worth building properly. Developed in-house, in active development.

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Services

What we are engaged to do

Fixed scope where scope can be fixed, day rate where discovery honestly has to come first. Each engagement ends with something you own and can run without us.

AI & LLM engineering

Systems that use language models for something specific and measurable, rather than a chatbot bolted to a website.

  • Retrieval over your own documents
  • Extraction & classification pipelines
  • Evaluation sets & regression testing
  • Cost and latency budgets

Data platform build

A warehouse or lakehouse stood up properly — infrastructure as code, environments, access model and CI, not a cluster someone clicked together.

  • Databricks or Snowflake
  • Terraform & CI/CD
  • Dev / staging / prod split
  • Cost guardrails

Pipeline engineering

New ingestion, or rescuing what already exists. Legacy scripts and scheduled jobs migrated to orchestrated, tested, observable pipelines.

  • Batch & streaming ingestion
  • dbt modelling & tests
  • Orchestration & alerting
  • Backfills without downtime

Governance, GDPR & AI Act

The parts auditors ask about: where personal data sits, who can read it, how long it is kept, and what your AI systems do with it.

  • Data inventory & lineage
  • Retention & deletion
  • Role-based access & masking
  • EU AI Act readiness review

How we build

One foundation, whether the output is a dashboard or a model

AI projects fail at the same place analytics projects do — somewhere between the source system and a trustworthy table. So we start there, every time.

Reference architecture The shape we normally land, adapted to your stack
RAW

Land it untouched

Append-only ingestion with the source payload kept verbatim, so last quarter's answer can always be reproduced.

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CONFORM

Type and de-duplicate

Typing, deduplication, history on the dimensions that change, and referential checks before anything downstream reads.

dbt test

MODEL

Define the business

One definition per metric, in the language your finance and operations people already use, documented where they will find it.

semantic layer

SERVE

Dashboards, APIs, models

The same governed tables feed reporting, applications and AI retrieval — so the numbers agree wherever they appear.

one source


Products

Software we build ourselves

In development

Built from problems we kept meeting

Some problems recur on every engagement, and solving them again by hand each time is waste. Those are the ones we develop into products. They are currently in active development and not yet generally available — if a theme below matches something you are wrestling with, we would like to hear about it while the work is still shaping.

Data reliability

Knowing a table is wrong before anyone downstream reads it, rather than after someone presents it.

AI evaluation

Measuring whether a model-based feature is improving or quietly regressing, with evidence instead of impressions.

Governance tooling

Keeping the record of what data exists, where it goes and who may see it accurate without a quarterly manual audit.


How we work

Three phases, and you can stop after any of them

Each phase ends with something you own outright: a document, a running system, a runbook. Nothing is held back for the next invoice.

PHASE 01

Discovery

We map your sources, the numbers people argue about, and what is actually breaking. You get a written architecture and a costed plan — useful even if you then build it yourself.

One week · fixed fee
PHASE 02

Build

Two-week increments, each ending with something in production rather than a demo. You see the repository, the tests and the cost dashboard throughout.

Scoped per increment
PHASE 03

Handover or run

Either we train your team and leave with the runbook signed off, or we keep it running under a defined support arrangement. Your choice, made at the end rather than the start.

Fixed monthly, or nothing at all

Contact

Tell us what you are trying to fix

A short call is usually enough to tell whether something is a week of work or a quarter. If it is a week, we will say so.

General hello@datameal.ltd

Dublin, Ireland · Working remotely across the EU and UK