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10%
reduction in cost per acquisition

Marketing budget allocation tool cut cost per acquisition by 10%

A high-street womenswear retailer

A high-street womenswear retailer wanted to allocate digital marketing spend across channels and geographies to maximise return. A bespoke decision-support tool cut cost per acquisition by 10 per cent while the business kept growing.

Retail & ConsumerEfficiencyRead

Streamlining Excel-based workflows with Python automation

An investment management firm

How QuantSpark modernised an investment management firm's Excel-based reporting with Python automation, cutting manual effort and improving data quality without replacing familiar tools.

Financial ServicesEfficiencyRead
Minutes
to refresh data, down from four to five hours by hand

Automating a global asset manager's data pipeline to streamline decisions

A global ESG-focused asset manager

Replacing a sprawling legacy spreadsheet with an automated data pipeline cut refresh times from hours to minutes and freed analysts to focus on investment advice.

Financial ServicesEfficiencyRead

A rapid AI prototype to auto-file email attachments at a private equity firm

A private equity firm

A private equity firm built internal AI momentum with a lightweight prototype that automatically files inbound email attachments into its document management system.

Private EquityEfficiencyRead

Sourcing a senior data analyst to restart a retailer's analytics programme

A leading UK retailer

QuantSpark Talent sourced and onboarded a senior data analyst for a UK retailer whose analytics programme had stalled, restoring capability across pricing, marketing, personalisation and strategy.

Retail & ConsumerEfficiencyRead
70%
reduction in data processing time

Deploying advanced data engineering to accelerate investment data processing

An asset management firm

How QuantSpark cut an asset manager's end-to-end investment-data processing time by 70%, giving portfolio managers faster access to the data behind their decisions.

Financial ServicesEfficiencyRead
39 days
FTE days saved annually

Automating an ESG asset manager's annual portfolio investment review

An ESG-focused asset manager

An ESG-focused asset manager cut its annual portfolio investment review from 40 days to one through an automated data pipeline and interactive dashboards.

Financial ServicesEfficiencyRead

A cloud data lakehouse for an online vehicle-trading platform

An online automobile-trading platform

A cloud-based data lakehouse consolidated siloed sources into a single relational store, enabling business intelligence and analytics across a fast-growing vehicle-trading platform.

SaaS & TechEfficiencyRead

Rebuilding macro space planning on a modern analytics platform

A leading UK supermarket group

QuantSpark replaced slow, hard-to-maintain Excel space-planning models with a bespoke Python analytics platform that is now the backbone of macro space decisions across the estate.

Retail & ConsumerEfficiencyRead
31%
reduction in absolute sales-forecast error

Machine learning improves a medical-device supplier's sales forecasting

A private-equity-backed orthopaedics and medical-device supplier

A seasonality-based machine-learning model cut sales-forecast error by around a third and extended forecasting to 18 months, optimising stock across international markets.

VideoIndustrial & AviationEfficiencyRead
1.5 FTE
of analyst time saved

Automating business intelligence to prioritise sales leads in real time

A high-growth cloud software (SaaS) provider

QuantSpark converted a manual, Excel-based reporting process into automated SQL pipelines feeding a business intelligence tool, saving 1.5 full-time equivalents and enabling sales leads to be prioritised in real time.

SaaS & TechEfficiencyRead

Real-time dashboards to evaluate a churn prediction model

Private equity-backed cyber security software provider

A cyber security software provider needed to know whether its churn and downsell prediction model was working in production. QuantSpark built a dashboard suite that replaced slow, ad-hoc analysis with real-time visibility for the board.

SaaS & TechEfficiencyRead
90%+
reduction in reporting errors

Accelerating data-driven decision-making with embedded analytics consultants

An ESG-focused investment manager

How embedded, secondment-style analytics consultants helped an ESG-focused investment manager deploy advanced analytics fast, without the cost or commitment of permanent hires.

Financial ServicesEfficiencyRead
30%
reduction in calculation time

Automating performance fee calculations for accuracy and efficiency

An asset management firm

How automating performance-fee calculations helped an asset manager cut calculation time and discrepancies while improving revenue forecasting.

Financial ServicesEfficiencyRead

Embedding a seconded data team on an equities investment desk

A global equities investment team

A global equities investment team gained advanced analytics capability through a seconded QuantSpark data team, delivering proofs of concept and automating its yearly portfolio review.

Financial ServicesEfficiencyRead

Standardising revenue policies for a buy-and-build exit

A private-equity-backed professional services group

Standardised revenue-recognition, work-in-progress and fee policies unified a multi-entity professional services group's reporting, simplifying integration and preparing it for exit.

Private EquityEfficiencyRead

A structured roadmap for AI in a regulated contract research organisation

A global specialist contract research organisation

A global specialist contract research organisation carried heavy manual overhead across finance, proposals and reporting, with no structured way to identify where AI could help. QuantSpark delivered a four-week discovery that produced a ranked, governance-aware roadmap of prioritised AI opportunities.

SaaS & TechEfficiencyRead
46%
reduction in core SKUs while retaining 95% of revenue

A minimum viable range: cutting SKUs without losing revenue

A private-equity-backed UK pet superstore chain

A private-equity-backed UK pet superstore chain carried a dog food range that had ballooned to around 1,930 SKUs, yet most of its sales came from a few hundred. QuantSpark’s fixed-fee, 10-week range review cut core SKUs by 46% while retaining 95% of revenue.

VideoRetail & ConsumerEfficiencyRead
50%
of customer orders automated end to end

Automating order entry from inbox to ERP

A private-equity-backed European manufacturer of engineered wood products

A private-equity-backed European manufacturer of engineered wood products relied on a dedicated team to interpret and rekey emailed PDF orders into SAP by hand. QuantSpark built a generative AI pipeline that automates half of customer orders end to end.

VideoIndustrial & AviationEfficiencyRead
1-2 days
research time saved per typical query

Generative AI that turns days of government research into minutes

A UK government department

QuantSpark built a generative-AI research application for a UK government department, letting staff search, generate and summarise large volumes of international documents, resolutions and records. Work that once took up to 10 hours per query was reduced to minutes.

VideoPublic SectorEfficiencyRead
27%
Data accuracy uplift · >1 FTE freed · £120k/yr saved

DataControl Platform: intelligent private equity data management

A mid-market private equity firm

DataControl Platform is QuantSpark's web application for PE firms: one place to collect, validate, visualise and sign-off portfolio data. One platform, one source of truth, fewer spreadsheets.

Private EquityEfficiencyRead
Days to minutes
Portfolio monitoring cycle

Building a private equity value-creation data stack with Chronograph

Chronograph

Returns now come from inside the portfolio company, not from cheap leverage. QuantSpark and Chronograph built a three-stage data stack that compresses portfolio monitoring from days to minutes and gives deal teams one live source of truth for every KPI.

Private EquityEfficiencyRead
80%
Faster review

Government department: 80% faster contract review with AI

UK central government department

A central government department was reviewing thousands of contracts manually for compliance with new procurement rules. We deployed ContractCube and reduced review time from weeks to hours.

VideoPublic SectorEfficiencyRead

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