About Sturdy Statistics
Founded in beautiful Santa Barbara, Sturdy Statistics helps you unlock the hidden potential of your unstructured data. Our mission is to empower businesses of all sizes to transform complex, unstructured information into actionable insights. Using our proprietary statistical software , delivered through a standard SQL interface, we seamlessly unify your structured and unstructured data into a single, scalable data lake. Our case studies highlight how we’ve helped companies across diverse industries solve long-standing challenges using data they already possessed. By handling the heavy lifting of storing, processing, and structuring your data, we enable your team — whether it be a single analyst or an entire department — to focus on what truly matters: uncovering insights and driving innovation.
We offer dedicated enterprise infrastructure, analytics and consulting services. We also offer various subsidized tier for students, researchers, indie developers and early start-ups. At Sturdy Statistics, we believe every dataset has a story, and we’re here to help you discover yours. Schedule a demo to unlock your unstructured data today.
Meet the Founders
Mike McCourt
Mike McCourt has deep expertise in both data science and in research, combining years of academic rigor with practical innovation. As Senior Principal Data Scientist at Invoca, he was the company’s first data science hire, responsible for developing its AI strategy and much of its foundational AI technology. His seven-year tenure there led to significant product lines that opened up new opportunities for the company and drove tens of millions of dollars in revenue. Mike’s Bayesian deep-learning models for natural language understanding earned his company the consistent designation as a Forrester Wave “Leader.” He holds six patents for novel contributions to the field of explainable machine learning.
Prior to his industry career, Mike was a leading researcher in astrophysics, holding prize postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard University, NASA, and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. He authored 26 papers which advanced the fields of kinetic magnetohydrodynamics, plasma astrophysics, and other areas. His papers have been cited thousands of times, have raised millions in research funding, and have created two small sub-disciplines of astronomy. Mike holds a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from UC Berkeley and a B.S. in Physics from Stanford University.
Kian Ghodoussi
Kian Ghodoussi is a data scientist with a track record of building high-impact products. As a Staff Data Scientist at Invoca, he developed an experimentation platform that contributed to over $30 million in upsells and renewals, created a data infrastructure processing tens of millions of phone calls daily, and launched statistically powered product lines that earned Invoca recognition as a Forrester Leader in marketing and contact center AI.
During his time at Databricks, Kian worked on Core Spark, contributing directly to the open-source Spark codebase by extending its query optimizer, significantly improving JSON ETL performance. His earlier roles at Honey and Quora highlight his ability to design scalable systems and to deploy machine learning models that drive quantitative improvements. As the founder of Fleek, a fashion app with 50,000 organic downloads, he designed a data lake that ingested 200 million products daily from 50+ partner brands. Kian holds M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California.