The Human Element

Data Engineering for Humans at Small Businesses
Who we are
    The Human Element is the go-to data consultancy for small business owners.

    In our past lives we built infrastructure and data processing systems to support the largest products in the world.

    We found our passion was to help small business owners live easier lives by spending more time doing what they love instead of menial operational tasks.
What we do
  • Automate Busywork: Improve your operational processes and reporting
  • Remove Clutter: Modernize spreadsheets and dashboards
  • Connect Your Sytems: Integrate POS, finance, ops, and marketing data
  • Automate your Data: Build reliable, maintainable data pipelines
  • Focus on your users: Empathize with the humans that use your processes and systems
  • Build Maintainable Systems: Design tools you and your team can maintain without a full-time engineer
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Case Studies

Family Restaurant

Industry: Restaurants
Region: Northeast
Themes: Automation
We helped a restarant owner automate their cash payouts, clock-ins and clock-outs, and reconciliations to Toast (their POS software)
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Family Investment Fund

Industry: Finance
Region: Midwest
Themes: Algorithmic Trading
We helped a family office fund set up automated stock screening and trading applications.
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Local Watershed Association

Industry: Public Policy
Region: Northeast
Themes: Schemas and Infra
We helped the governing body of a local lake implement a better data schema strategy. This helped them increase data-driven insights, run more efficient fund-raising campaigns, normalize their datasets with government datasets, and perform analytics around algae bloom detection using CyFi.
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Real Estate Agency

Industry: Real Estate
Region: Northeast
Themes: Data Collection and Analytics
We informed investment decisions for a real estate agent by collecting publicly available data about home prices.
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Real Estate Development Firm

Industry: Real Estate
Region: Central America
Themes: AI Customer Support
We built a WhatsApp AI concierge using a RAG workflow with OpenAI and Pinecone to deliver always-on property support for buyers and residents.
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Independent Insurance Brokerage

Industry: Insurance
Region: Southeast
Themes: Operations, Reporting and Automation
We consulted with a family-owned insurance brokerage on how they can automate data aggregation, reporting and operational processes downstream of their CRM and Sales software.
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