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AI Data Analyst in New York

The best AI Data Analyst in New York, at the best available price.

$0 upfrontPay per accepted checkpointSenior engineer, no agency markup

Your team asks in English. The service finds the tables, writes the SQL, runs it against a read-only replica inside your own cloud, and returns the number with the query attached. It cannot touch a table whose schema it has not just read, and that is enforced in code rather than requested in a prompt. Starts at $0: you pay at checkpoints you accept.

New York buys software the way its biggest industries do: carefully, with procurement, security questionnaires and a lawyer in the loop. Finance, media, adtech and large hospital networks set the tone, so even a twelve-person startup here is often selling into a bank or a health system and inherits their review process.

Operations and finance teams in New York tend to sit on clean warehouse data and a queue of ad hoc questions for a busy data team. A read-only analyst that writes the SQL and shows it clears that queue without handing anyone write access.

What you get

  • Deployed in your own cloud account against a read-only replica you create, so we never hold a credential to your database
  • A signed schema check the model cannot skip: no SQL runs against a table it has not just inspected, and the tokens expire in fifteen minutes
  • A grant list your data owner approves, naming the exact tables and columns the analyst may read, with everything else refused at the database
  • Exposed inside Claude or ChatGPT in your organisation's workspace, behind your existing Google sign in, so nobody learns a new interface
  • Every question logged with the SQL it ran, the tables it touched and whether it errored, which is what an auditor actually asks for
  • Runs on a private LLM on your own hardware where data security demands it, up to fully air-gapped, so nothing at all crosses your perimeter
Builds from $6,000. Assessment fixed fee, credited in full.

No payment before a checkpoint is delivered and accepted. Most builds land between $6,000 and $18,000 depending on how many databases are in scope and how much of the schema the first domain covers. Optional upkeep from $1,200 a month, and only if you want it.

Invoiced in USD, payable by Wise or bank transfer.

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New York, New York

Who builds here

Financial services and fintechMedia and adtechCornell Tech and the Flatiron startup sceneHospital networks and health tech
Best fit in New York

On-Premise LLM Deployment

Banks, insurers and their vendors here are the buyers most likely to refuse a shared model API outright, so keeping inference inside your own account is often what gets an AI feature through a DFS-style vendor review.

Try a question
1Question

How many free signups from June converted to paid, by week?

2Schema read
customers

plan tier is a column here, not a separate status table

subscriptions

one row per plan change, so take the first paid one

Schema proof issued, expires in 15 min
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3Verified SQL
SELECT DATE_TRUNC('week', s."startedAt")
         AS "Week",
       COUNT(DISTINCT c.id) AS "Converted"
FROM   customers c
JOIN   subscriptions s
         ON s."customerId" = c.id
WHERE  c.plan = 'free'
  AND  s.plan = 'paid'
  AND  c."createdAt" >= DATE '2026-06-01'
  AND  c."createdAt" <  DATE '2026-07-01'
GROUP  BY 1 ORDER BY 1
WeekConverted
2026-06-01214
2026-06-08188
2026-06-15243
2026-06-22201

Stage three refuses to run unless it is handed a valid token from stage two for a table in the query. The model cannot skip the schema read, because the check is a signature in code rather than an instruction in a prompt.

Architecture diagram of an AI data analyst that can only read: a question asked in Claude or ChatGPT goes to an MCP server running in your cloud, through a semantic layer of your metrics and definitions, into generated SQL, then a validation step that enforces read-only access, row limits and cited numbers, before it reaches a read-only replica. The answer returns with the numbers cited, and a write is refused by the database itself.
Every answer comes from a read-only replica through a validated query, with the numbers cited.
How you pay

Get it built at $0.

That is not a discount. It is when you pay. The work is split into checkpoints with acceptance criteria written down before anything starts, and each checkpoint is invoiced only after you have seen it and accepted it. No deposit.

$0 to start
You hold every dollar until a checkpoint is delivered and you accept it. No approval, no invoice.
Fixed cost, unlimited features
Or hire the team outright: one fixed monthly cost, unlimited feature development, any stack.
The engineer takes your call
The person on your first call is the one who architects and writes it. No account managers, no bench time.

A US agency quotes $50,000 to $150,000 for the same build and asks for 40 to 50% of it before a line is written. Account managers, project managers, sales commission and bench time. None of it appears in your product.

How it works

Three stages, nothing hidden.

01

Fixed-fee assessment

Five business days from the day read-only access is in place. Schema inventoried, the questions your team actually asks classified as answerable or not, the grant list drafted with whoever owns data protection, and acceptance criteria written as testable statements.

02

Build in checkpoints

About three weeks. Deployed in your cloud account, connected to your replica and to your assistant workspace, with the semantic layer written for the first domain. Each checkpoint has criteria agreed before work starts and is invoiced only once you accept it.

03

Handover and closeout

A real question from your team, answered end to end, with the SQL shown and the numbers reconciled against the source rows. Runbook, recorded handoff, code and semantic layer in your repository, and all our access removed with written confirmation.

Working in New York

What actually applies here.

Regulation and data

Financial firms regulated by the New York Department of Financial Services fall under its cybersecurity rule, 23 NYCRR Part 500, which was tightened in 2023 with stricter access control, MFA and asset inventory requirements, and their vendors are pulled into that scope through due diligence. New York City's Local Law 144 requires a bias audit and candidate notice before an automated tool is used in hiring or promotion decisions. The SHIELD Act sets data security duties for anyone holding New York residents' private information, wherever the company is based.

Contracting and payment

You contract with an individual consultant based in India rather than a US entity. Invoices are issued in USD and paid by Wise or bank transfer, with no payroll and no benefits load on your side. Whatever documentation your finance team or counsel needs from an overseas contractor is provided before work starts.

Working hours

Four or more hours of daily overlap with Eastern time, calls in your morning, and same-day replies on working days.

Can you work under a vendor security review from a New York bank or insurer?

Yes. Expect to complete their questionnaire and to work with named, limited-privilege access in accounts you own. Where they need it, inference and data stay inside your own cloud account so nothing goes to a third-party model provider.

Do you meet in person in New York?

The work is remote, with calls in your morning Eastern time. The documentation and recorded handover are written so that nobody needs an in-person meeting to understand what was built.

We already have a BI tool. Does this replace it?

No, and it should not. Your dashboards answer the questions somebody anticipated, and they will keep doing that. This answers the ones nobody built a chart for, which is where the waiting happens. Teams that keep both end up using the dashboards for the standing numbers and the analyst for everything else.

How long before somebody can ask a real question?

Usually inside the first week of the build, on a narrow slice of the schema. The first domain being useful early is the point of doing it in checkpoints: you see it working on your own data before most of the money is committed.

What if our schema is a mess?

Most are, and it changes the shape of the work rather than ruling it out. Undocumented columns, legacy tables nobody dares delete and two spellings of the same idea are normal. The assessment tells you plainly how much of that has to be untangled first, and if the answer is that you need a data cleanup before an analyst is worth building, you will be told that instead of sold this.