Product research
Chemical manufacturer
Discovered why consumers rejected a product professionals loved, informing a new formulation that improved repeat purchases.
Read the case studyData analysis · Research · SoftwareSanta Barbara, California
Solving business problems through thoughtful analysis and practical software.
We combine analysis and software to uncover cost drivers, explain customer behavior, and help teams improve operational performance.
We help you investigate a difficult question, work through an ongoing analytical challenge, or build tools for your team and your customers.
A few questions we help answer
“Our projects keep going over budget. What’s driving the overruns?”
Analyze past estimates, project records, and change orders to find recurring sources of extra cost and where changing the process could help.
“Can we identify customers who are likely to leave while there’s still time to act?”
Connect customer feedback to changes in your product and service to identify warning signs and understand which customers may be at risk.
“Our team spends hours pulling information from different systems. Can we make this easier?”
Bring scattered information together so your team can find patterns, compare findings, and repeat useful analyses without starting from scratch.
Selected work.
Analytics platform development
DealSurface
Helped DealSurface build a platform that identifies sales opportunities in insurance for its customers while reducing LLM processing costs by 99%.
Read the case studyPublic research · Santa Barbara
Bring project costs and community priorities into the same conversation.
We analyzed State Street’s public comments to understand community priorities, then built a cost explorer around those findings so residents and professionals can examine the project’s costs through the issues they care about.
State Street Master PlanJune 2026
$56.89million
All construction · total project estimate $96.02m
Utilities$17.54m
Pavement & structure$16.60m
Construction overhead$10.91m
Other construction$11.84m
Who you’ll work with
Research experience.
Practical engineering.
We work directly with you, from framing the question through analysis and delivery.
Michael McCourt
Bayesian modeling and applied research. Former Senior Principal Data Scientist at Invoca; research fellowships at Harvard, NASA, and the Kavli Institute.
Ph.D. in Astrophysics, UC Berkeley
Kian Ghodoussi
Data science and software engineering. Built statistical products and large-scale data infrastructure at Invoca and Databricks.
M.S. & B.S. in Computer Science, USC
Supporting research that wins funding
“Sturdy Statistics helped us secure NIH funding through a combination of statistical expertise and hands-on research collaboration.”
Ramiz SomjeeGenomics Researcher · Washington University in St. Louis
Working with us
Define
We meet to understand your goals, your data, and your existing systems. Together, we agree on the scope, timeline, and what success looks like.
Develop
We work with your data to produce initial findings or a working prototype, giving your team something concrete to evaluate early.
Deliver
After refining the work with your team, we deliver findings you can act on or software that fits into your workflow, and help you put it to use.