Marquie Data Systems

What we do

More value from the data you already have.

We help teams replace recurring manual admin with dashboards, automation, and reporting — then keep the databases underneath fast, safe, and recoverable. No platform rip-and-replace; scope is agreed in writing before work starts.

Core services

Four practical ways we improve business processes and turn existing data into usable business value. Each engagement is scoped around a clear operational outcome, with expandable capabilities added only where they make sense.

Database performance optimization

Fix slow queries, bottlenecks, and inefficient workloads.

Outcome: faster systems without changing your stack.

Reliability & resilience

Make sure your data systems don't fail — and can recover when they do.

Outcome: systems you can depend on under pressure.

Data security & risk reduction

Protect sensitive data and reduce exposure. Compliance support (SOC, PCI, SOX, HIPAA) when audit time comes.

Outcome: reduced risk without operational friction.

Reporting & operational visibility

Decision-ready views, scheduled summaries, and controlled plain-English access to your own data — including safe query paths where they fit.

Outcome: fewer Monday rebuilds of the same spreadsheet.

Growth services

Remote projects that turn dormant customer data into revenue and reporting you do not rebuild from scratch each week. If the data already exists, these engagements put it to work.

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Customer Reactivation

Starting at $7,500

Turn dormant customers into active revenue — using the data you already have.

Most businesses sit on a hidden asset: a customer base that already visited, purchased, or engaged, and just hasn't come back. We identify, segment, and re-engage that audience using your existing systems — no new platforms required. Audit your customer activity data, define what "inactive" means for your business, build reactivation-ready segments (recently lapsed, long-term inactive, high-value dormant, one-time vs. repeat), and stand up the system your team actually operates.

What you get

  • Clean, structured view of your inactive customer base
  • Reactivation-ready segments by behavior, value, and recency
  • Export-ready customer lists or CRM / campaign integrations
  • AI-assisted query access — ask questions directly of your data
  • Reactivation performance reporting and feedback loop

Engagement

Project-based fixed fee. Includes data audit, segmentation, reactivation-system build, and reporting. Pairs with the Ongoing DBA Retainer for sustained campaigns. Final scope agreed in writing after a 30-minute scoping call.

Advanced capabilities

Deep implementation tiers for health checks, migrations, performance tuning, AI-ready access, and ongoing DBA support. Often the entry point for new clients (Health Check), often the support layer afterwards (Retainer).

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Database Health Check

Starting at $1,500

Find what's slow, what's risky, what's missing.

We inventory your databases, validate that backups actually restore, audit who has access to what, and benchmark performance against your real workload. Output: a written report ranking the top fixes by ROI, in plain English. No commitment beyond the check. Engine, cloud, and tooling matched to your stack — ask in scoping.

What you get

  • Written report with prioritized fix list
  • Verified test restore of at least one production database
  • Access / permission inventory
  • Performance baseline (top wait stats, slow queries, missing indexes)

Engagement

Three commitment sizes scaled to your estate. Lite: 1 week, single database, plain-English summary, one free fix. Standard: 2 weeks, full instance, formal risk register. Premium: 3-4 weeks, full estate audit and executive readout. Final scope agreed after a 30-minute call.

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Performance Tuning Sprint

Starting at $5,000

Make slow databases fast — measured, not guessed.

We capture a sanitized snapshot of your real production workload, replay it through a harness, and diagnose blocking, plan regressions, parameter sniffing, missing or misaligned indexes. Apply changes, measure before-and-after on the same workload, and leave behind a runbook your team can maintain. Real numbers, not vibes.

What you get

  • Workload capture + replay harness on a non-prod environment
  • Specific index / query / configuration changes, applied and reviewed
  • Before/after metrics on the same captured workload (real numbers, not vibes)
  • Maintainable runbook handed to your team

Engagement

2-4 week fixed-fee project. Final fee agreed in writing after a 30-minute scoping call.

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Migration to Cloud

Starting at $20,000

Move databases off aging servers, or between platforms — without downtime drama.

Two flavors, both done with object-by-object validation and staged approval gates. (1) On-prem → cloud, sized correctly, monitored from day one, documented rollback path. Zero-downtime cutovers when the workload demands it — proven on past 100% SLA migrations. (2) Cross-platform: stored procedures, functions, views, and ETL logic translated for semantic preservation, not literal syntax. Test harness compares output row-by-row before sign-off. Infrastructure provisioned as code so the new environment is reproducible from day one. Cloud-agnostic.

What you get

  • Migration plan with explicit rollback procedure
  • Staged cutover with validation gates between phases
  • Object-level test harness (procs, functions, views, ETL)
  • Performance and cost baseline on the new platform
  • Operator runbook for ongoing maintenance

Engagement

Project-based. Scope and timeline depend on database size, object count, and downtime tolerance. Final fee agreed in writing after a 30-minute scoping call.

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AI-Ready Data Access

Starting at $7,500

Safely point Claude, Copilot, or your own agents at your business data.

Set up Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers against your existing databases — read-only by default, dedicated AI-purpose login, least-privilege schema access (RBAC), and audit logging. Sequenced staging-only first, then promoted to production after security review. Designed to survive SOC, PCI, and SOX audit. Engine and cloud matched to your stack.

What you get

  • MCP server configured against your databases
  • Read-only AI service account with least-privilege schema scoping
  • Audit-logging plumbing so you can see exactly what your agents read
  • Documented allow-list of tables / views the AI can reach
  • Optional: reporting API + dashboard integration

Engagement

2-4 week project covering one staging environment plus production cutover. Final fee agreed in writing after a 30-minute scoping call.

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Ongoing DBA Retainer

Starting at $2,500 / month

A senior DBA on call, without a full-time hire.

Monthly retainer for businesses where database downtime costs money. Predictable monthly fee. Same-day response on incidents during business hours. Monthly health check report. Quarterly business review where we surface the next bottleneck before it bites. Pairs with any of the engagements above as the support tier afterwards.

What you get

  • Same-day incident response (business hours)
  • Monthly health-check report
  • Index / partition / archive maintenance on schedule
  • Quarterly review with the ranked next-fix list
  • Direct line to the engineer doing the work, not a ticket queue

Engagement

Three retainer sizes scaled to your hours-per-month need: Starter (8 hrs), Growth (16 hrs), Scale (32+ hrs). Pairs with any project engagement after delivery.

How we work

Most operational problems show up as manual work, slow reporting, duplicated effort, or decisions made without clear information. The real issue is usually deeper: the business has useful data, but it is disconnected from the processes that need it.

We fix that in three steps: connect the data, protect the foundation, and optimize the workflow around it.

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Your business already creates valuable data every day, but it often lives across disconnected systems, spreadsheets, inboxes, and reports. We bring that information together so it can support the people, processes, dashboards, and automations that depend on it.

Outcome: cleaner workflows, less manual effort, and data your team can actually use.

Secure

Useful data has to be trusted, protected, and recoverable. We review access, backup readiness, sensitive data exposure, and operational risk so your business can use its data confidently without creating new problems.

Outcome: safer systems, controlled access, and reduced business risk.

Optimize

Once the data is connected and trusted, we improve the process around it. We reduce repeat admin, automate routine steps, improve reporting, and tune the systems underneath so the business runs faster and with better visibility.

Outcome: better processes, faster decisions, and more value from the data you already have.

No rebuilds. No tool-first consulting. Just practical improvements that make your existing data and systems work harder for the business.

"Starting at" pricing is the floor for the smallest engagement of each tier. Final scope and fee are agreed in writing before any work starts.

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