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Not a consultant.
Not a new hire.
Most companies solve the "we need data help" problem
one of two ways: hire a consultant for a project, or bring
on a full-time analyst. Both have real costs — and real
limitations. An FDA works differently.
Consultant
Project-scoped
Learns your business from scratch
Leaves when the engagement ends
Expensive for ongoing work
Delivers outputs, not capability
$100K+
Annual engagement cost
Consultant
2–4 months to find someone
$20–40K in recruiting costs
3 months before independently useful
Under 2 years median tenure
Full management overhead yours
$90–130K
Per year, plus $20–40K to recruit
Supper FDA
Ongoing, included in your plan
Already an expert in Supper
Builds institutional knowledge over time
Embedded in your team's rhythm
Builds your capability, not dependency
Included
In your Supper plan
How it works in practice
One analyst. Four ways
they add value.
No two customers use their FDA the same way. Here's what the
engagement looks like across different stages and situations.
Fdas grow with you
Regardless of your company's size, there's a fit for a FDA.
Most customers fit one of three situations. Here's how
the FDA typically shows up in each.
No data team yet
You need data capability now. Hiring is six months away.
Founder or ops lead still pulling numbers by hand.
You're scaling fast, decisions are getting harder, and you can't wait for a hire. The FDA becomes your de facto data function: handling weekly questions, building the infrastructure, and making sure you're deciding on real numbers while you build toward a permanent team. Supper's self- serve covers everything in between.
Small team, big backlog
Your analysts are talented. They're also underwater.
One or two people supporting a company of 50–100.
They spend 60% of their time on ad hoc requests that Supper should be handling automatically. The FDA covers overflow and complex projects, Supper handles self-serve, and your existing data team gets to focus on the strategic work only they can do.
Transitioning from legacy BI
You're switching from something else. You need continuity.
Existing dashboards, reports, and embedded business logic.
The FDA leads a structured migration on your timeline, running in parallel with your existing stack to validate accuracy, then handing over before the old tool is decommissioned. Nothing breaks during the switch.
How one company got the output of a data team without building one.
When a perishable logistics company came to Supper, their CTO was managing data requests himself from across the team. In under a month, their entire leadership team has real-time access to every metric they care about, plus a Supper Forward Deployed Analyst to assist on deeper analyeses ahead of important meetings.
“Our engineering team is able to real work now, instead of ad-hoc data requests! Less technical team members can self-serve critical insights ahead of key meetings and decisions. And Clay [Supper's FDA] jumps in whenever the team has more important data requests or explorations to do.”
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Joe · CTO
Switched from manual reporting