Data Architecture Consultancy

Your data should speak
your language.

Most organizations have more data than insight. We design semantic architectures, AI strategies, and data products that translate raw data into decisions, in the language your business actually uses.

13+ Years in Data Leadership
60k+ Employees Served at Adecco
5 Industries Across
2 Open Source Products

The gap between your data and your decisions is a language problem.

Your systems generate data in their language. Your teams make decisions in theirs. The semantic layer between them (how data gets translated, modeled, and made accessible) is where most data investments succeed or fail.

Why Eloquent Analytics

Fortune 500 experience.
Boutique attention.

Before founding Eloquent Analytics, Philip O'Donnell served as Group SVP of Global Data Platforms at The Adecco Group, leading the data organization for a company with 60,000+ employees and $24B+ in revenue.

That experience, spanning staffing, telecommunications, retail, and career services, now powers a consultancy built for organizations that want senior-level thinking without the overhead of a large firm.

  • 13+ years in data analytics leadership
  • Enterprise to startup breadth
  • Call-by-call engagement with money-back guarantee
  • Practitioner, not theorist. Hands-on strategy meets hands-on engineering
More About Philip

How We Work

Start with a conversation. Scale to fit.

1

Conversation

We start with a focused discussion about your data challenges, goals, and current state. No pitch decks. No generic proposals.

2

Assessment

We evaluate your situation and recommend an approach: strategy calls, architecture work, starter kits, or a combination. We tell you what we see, even if it means pointing you elsewhere.

3

Engagement

We work call by call with a money-back guarantee. No long contracts. No junior consultants. Scale the engagement up or down based on what's actually working.

Who We Help

Data leaders who need clarity, not more complexity.

Enterprises

Navigating data platform modernization, semantic layer design, or AI adoption with stakeholders across the organization.

Data Teams

Seeking architecture patterns, starter kits, and strategies that accelerate delivery without accumulating technical debt.

Business Leaders

Who need their data investment to produce measurable decisions, not just dashboards that nobody trusts.

Consultants

Looking for deep technical expertise on data architecture, semantic modeling, or AI strategy to augment their engagements.

Expertise

Deep in data. Fluent in business.

Data Strategy & Governance Semantic Architecture Data Integration & Pipelines LLM & AI Strategy Text-to-SQL Data Monetization Data Catalogs & Fabric Observability Data Product Design Medallion Architecture Databricks MS Fabric Snowflake dbt AI Decision Frameworks Data Science Cloud-Agnostic Design

Ready to make your data speak?

Start with a conversation. No pitch decks. No sales pressure. Just a practical discussion about your data challenges and what might help.