phData
Snowflake and AWS data engineering with a fixed-fee AI sprint
- HQ
- Minneapolis, United States
- Founded
- 2014
- Team
- Not published
- Regions
- North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific
- Pricing
- Undisclosed
- Stack
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- Snowflake Elite Services Partner
- AWS Premier Partner
- Anthropic Preferred Partner
- dbt Visionary Partner
- Fivetran
- Sigma Computing
- phData Forge
- phData Toolkit
- Industries
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- Healthcare
- Financial Services
- Ecommerce
About phData
phData is a Minneapolis firm founded in 2014 covering advisory, data engineering, migrations, machine learning, generative AI, agentic activation and managed operations, with delivery centers in Uruguay and India. Its partner record is among the strongest here: seven Snowflake Partner of the Year wins, three dbt Partner of the Year wins, AWS Premier Partner and Anthropic Preferred Partner status.
It sells a fixed-fee sprint called 3-2-1 GO, a rarer commercial shape in this category than open-ended time and materials, though no price for it is published. Advisory is listed as a service, but the revenue shape is migrations, pipelines and managed operations, so a buyer wanting independent advice on whether to build at all is not the core customer. Its owner, Gryphon Investors, also owns Caylent, which appears separately in this category.
phData has a full Anthropic practice with three Claude service lines and states more than 100 Claude certifications, and is a Preferred partner in the Claude Partner Network. Six of its cases name Claude, among them Order.co, a multi-agent purchasing system on Claude Sonnet 4 that completes orders end to end, and a Claude Enterprise governance review for Power Digital.
Our verdict
phData is a serious data platform firm and its partner record, seven Snowflake Partner of the Year wins among them, is about as good a third-party signal as this category produces.
A buyer should be clear about what is being bought and who is being compared. The work is migrations, pipelines and managed operations with advisory attached rather than sold on its own, no price appears anywhere including for the fixed-fee sprint, and the company publishes no headcount at all: one directory shows 50 to 249 people and another 500 to 999.
It is also owned by Gryphon Investors, which owns Caylent in this same category, so shortlisting both is not an independent comparison.
Pros
- Seven Snowflake Partner of the Year wins and three from dbt Labs, plus AWS Premier and Anthropic Preferred Partner status
- Sells a fixed-fee sprint, a rarer commercial shape here than open-ended time and materials
- Six published Claude cases, including Order.co's multi-agent purchasing system and a Claude Enterprise governance review for Power Digital
Cons
- Owned by Gryphon Investors, which also owns Caylent in this same category, so the two are not independent alternatives
- Publishes no headcount, and the two directories listing it disagree by an order of magnitude, 50 to 249 against 500 to 999
- No price is published anywhere, including for the fixed-fee sprint, and both directory profiles carry zero reviews
- Advisory is listed but the revenue shape is migrations and managed operations, so standalone advice is not the product
Where phData ranks
- Ranked #31 in AI Consulting Firms Down 18 places since 21 October 2026
- Ranked #12 in Claude Partners New in this ranking
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