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Software · Anywhere · 50–1,000 employees, with a data team

SaaS & Subscription Company

License your product databases, warehouse and analytics code.

  • You earn up to

    $21,000

  • Company earns

    $60K–$210K

    Depends on data volume and stack depth

Houston scopes the data, signs an NDA and runs the export, removing or protecting personal information.

About

We're looking for software and subscription businesses with a mature data stack: their own production databases, a cloud warehouse, and a modeling layer maintained by a data team, alongside a real general ledger, CRM, billing and support desk.

Location
Anywhere
Company size
50–1,000 employees, with a data team
Track record
3+ years of operating data
Kinds of companies
B2B SaaS, consumer subscriptions, marketplaces, e-commerce

Is it a fit?

What we're looking for

  • The company's own production databases and a cloud warehouse
  • dbt or SQLMesh with 100+ models, or 50+ scheduled pipelines with run history
  • A general ledger, CRM, billing and support desk in daily use
  • 50 GB or more of tabular data

Not a fit

  • Agencies holding their clients' databases
  • Empty or barely used CRMs

Who knows companies like this

Heads of data, analytics engineers, the dbt community and fractional data teams.

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What the license covers

  • Database and warehouse tables
  • Modeling and pipeline code with run history
  • Finance, CRM, billing and support records

Nice to have, adds to what the company earns

  • Ingestion configs and query logs
  • A semantic layer or LookML
  • Dashboards built on the warehouse

Tools we work with

  • Snowflake
  • BigQuery
  • Databricks
  • dbt
  • Airflow
  • Fivetran
  • Looker
  • Salesforce
  • NetSuite
  • Stripe

Questions we'll ask the company

If the company can answer these, it is likely a good referral.

  1. Which warehouse do you use, and how many dbt models or pipelines?
  2. Do you run your own general ledger and CRM?
  3. Roughly how much data, in GB?
  4. How long has the data team been in place?

How referrals work

  1. 1

    Find a fit

    Pick an open request and think of a company that matches.

  2. 2

    Refer them

    Share the company and a few details about it, in about a minute.

  3. 3

    We do the work

    We scope their data, agree a license and handle the export.

  4. 4

    You get paid

    Up to $21,000 per company, after their first delivery.

On this request

Up to $21,000

  • 10% of what we agree to pay the company
  • Confirmed when the company signs its data license
  • Paid after their first delivery
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