Advisory Session
$350-$1,500
Focused guidance on a specific question or decision.
Services & Pricing
Support for the decisions your organization needs to make.
Our work spans data, research, technology, governance, institutional information, and technical capacity. Start with what you're trying to understand, decide, improve, preserve, or build.
Start with the problem
What are you trying to solve?
If one of these sounds familiar, use it as your starting point. You can read the full service-area details below without leaving this page.
We don't really know what we have, who owns it, or what we should be doing with it.
Know what you have, where it lives, who is responsible for it, and how it should be cared for.
Everyone touches our data, but nobody is quite sure who gets to decide.
Create clear ownership, decision rights, accountability, and practices people can actually use.
People are already using AI, and we need to figure out what responsible use actually means here.
Make technology and AI decisions grounded in purpose, risk, trust, and organizational capacity.
We have plenty of data, but we're still struggling to answer the questions that matter.
Make data, reporting, and analysis more useful for the decisions that matter.
We know our current technical setup is not meeting our needs, but we are not sure whether the answer is better systems, different support, new skills, additional staff, or some combination.
Determine the mix of systems, skills, roles, vendors, and support your organization actually needs.
We have years of information and institutional history, and we don't know what we should keep or how to care for it.
Preserve institutional knowledge and make intentional decisions about what should be retained, archived, transferred, or let go.
We know we need to hire technical talent. We need someone with technical expertise to help us define the role and determine who can actually do the work.
Define technical roles and evaluate technical talent with experienced technical leadership in the room.
We need to conduct a community needs assessment. We want to do participatory research with our community.
Turn important questions into thoughtful, practical research.
We're not sure where this fits.
Tell us what is changing, and we will recommend the right starting point.
Our engagement formats
Working Session
$1,500-$3,500
Facilitated work with your team to make progress together.
Assessment
$2,500-$7,500
Structured discovery, analysis, and practical recommendations.
Project
$5,000-$15,000+
Design or implementation of a defined solution.
Ongoing Stewardship
$1,500-$7,500+/month
Continued support, coaching, or fractional leadership.
Not sure where to start? Tell us what you are trying to accomplish and we will recommend the right approach.
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Services designed for organizations just like yours.
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Service 01
Memory & Information Stewardship
Know what you have, where it lives, who is responsible for it, and how it should be cared for.
$350-$12,500+
Service 01
Memory & Information Stewardship
Know what you have, where it lives, who is responsible for it, and how it should be cared for.
Organizations accumulate information across CRMs, spreadsheets, shared drives, databases, forms, vendor platforms, and staff knowledge. We help you understand that information environment and establish practical ways to manage data throughout its useful life.
We can help you
- Understand what data you have and where it lives
- Map how information moves
- Clarify ownership and access
- Identify privacy, security, retention, and quality risks
- Establish data management practices
- Decide what should be collected, retained, archived, or disposed of
Service 02
Data Governance
Create clear ownership, decision rights, accountability, and practices people can actually use.
$350-$20,000+
Service 02
Data Governance
Create clear ownership, decision rights, accountability, and practices people can actually use.
Governance should not begin and end with policies. We help organizations establish clear responsibilities, decision rights, shared expectations, and practical ways to make decisions about data across teams.
We can help you
- Clarify ownership and stewardship responsibilities
- Establish decision rights
- Create governance structures
- Develop policies and standards
- Establish review and escalation processes
- Connect organizational values to everyday practices
- Launch or strengthen stewardship councils
- Document and revisit important decisions
Service 03
Responsible Technology & AI
Make technology and AI decisions grounded in purpose, risk, trust, and organizational capacity.
$350-$12,500+
Service 03
Responsible Technology & AI
Make technology and AI decisions grounded in purpose, risk, trust, and organizational capacity.
New technology creates possibilities, but also new responsibilities. We help organizations evaluate and adopt technology and AI based on purpose, organizational capacity, risk, power, trust, and impact, not hype.
We can help you
- AI Readiness & Risk Assessments
- Custom AI literacy trainings for Leadership & Staff
- Trade-offs, privacy, data, community, and organizational risks evaluations
- AI Output Evaluation
- Develop AI boundries, policies and decision processes
- Vendor evaluation, selection, onboarding, performance monitoring, and offboarding
- Leadership Enablement & Pushback Support
- Identify the right-sized technology for the use case
- Co-design RFPs, system, information and infrastructure architectures for technology development projects
Service 04
Data & Decision Support
Make data, reporting, and analysis more useful for the decisions that matter.
$350-$12,500+
Service 04
Data & Decision Support
Make data, reporting, and analysis more useful for the decisions that matter.
More reporting does not automatically create better decisions. We help organizations improve the data, measures, workflows, and analytical practices behind the decisions they need to make.
We can help you
- Develop and review research project plans
- Clarify what should be measured, why and how
- Redesign data workflows
- Evaluate what information decision-makers actually need
- Create useful analyses and dashboards
- Reduce unnecessary collection and reporting
- Establish recurring practices for reviewing and using data
Service 05
Technical Capacity Planning
Determine the mix of systems, skills, roles, vendors, and support your organization actually needs.
$350-$10,000+
Service 05
Technical Capacity Planning
Determine the mix of systems, skills, roles, vendors, and support your organization actually needs.
When technology is not working well, the answer is not always another tool or another hire. We help organizations understand the mix of systems, skills, roles, vendors, and outside expertise needed to support their work, then develop a practical plan for building that capacity.
We can help you
- Assess current systems, technical skills, responsibilities, and support structure
- Identify technical capability and ownership gaps
- Evaluate whether existing systems and vendors are meeting organizational needs
- Determine which focus areas should be developed internally and which require outside expertise
- Compare staff development, hiring, fractional support, contractors, vendors, and new technology
- Clarify how technical responsibilities should be distributed
- Improve workflows between people and systems
- Develop a practical technical capacity roadmap
- Plan system, staffing, vendor, or responsibility transitions
Service 06
Archival & Institutional Stewardship
Preserve institutional knowledge and make intentional decisions about what should be retained, archived, transferred, or let go.
$350-$15,000+
Service 06
Archival & Institutional Stewardship
Preserve institutional knowledge and make intentional decisions about what should be retained, archived, transferred, or let go.
Organizations accumulate institutional knowledge, records, photographs, reports, databases, emails, digital files, and community history over decades. We help determine what has enduring value, what needs continued care, and what can be responsibly disposed of.
We can help you
- Understand, organize, describe, preserve, and care for physical and digital collections over time.
- Plan and build digital collections that are organized, searchable, accessible, and sustainable.
- Capture and preserve organizational knowledge, history, and context before it is lost through transitions or change.
- Establish practical rules and responsibilities for what to keep, archive, access, share, and responsibly dispose of.
- Preserve the stories, experiences, and knowledge of the people and communities connected to an organization.
- Make archival materials useful through research, discovery, exhibits, storytelling, education, and other forms of access.
Service 07
Technical Team Building
Define technical roles and evaluate technical talent with experienced technical leadership in the room.
$1,500-$12,500+
Service 07
Technical Team Building
Define technical roles and evaluate technical talent with experienced technical leadership in the room.
Once you have determined that your organization needs additional technical staff, we help turn that need into a well-defined role and a confident hiring decision. ATL DataLab serves as your technical hiring manager, not your recruiter, while your organization owns candidate sourcing, checks, and the final decision.
We can help you
- Identify and translate a technical need into a clearly defined position
- Hire your first technical team member
- Build your first analytics, data science, software enginring, or machine learning team
- Create 30/60/90-day reviews for new technical hires
- Co-develop technical hire performance reviews
- Get your existing team back on track through mentorship, interium team leadership, and anti-burn out builder retreats
- Develop RFPs, PRDs, and project plans to support vendor selection processes
Service 08
Research Design & Implementation
Turn important questions into thoughtful, practical research.
$3,500-$12,500+
Service 08
Research Design & Implementation
Turn important questions into thoughtful, practical research.
We help organizations design and carry out research that produces useful evidence while respecting the people and communities involved. From framing the question through analysis and interpretation, we build research processes appropriate to the organization's goals, capacity, and context.
We can help you
- Turn an organizational question into a practical research plan and methodology.
- Design research approaches that meaningfully involve the people and communities connected to the research.
- Develop community researcher, citizen science programs
- Design surveys, interviews, focus groups, and other collection methods.
- Create custom research tools and survey apps
- Develop questions, guides, sampling approaches, documentation, and collection procedures.
- Develop analysis plans and examine collected information for meaningful findings and patterns.
- Work with staff, participants, or community members to understand what findings mean in context.
- Develop funder-, community-, or journal-ready white papers, articles, case studies, program evaluations
Before you engage
A few useful answers upfront.
How do we know which service area fits?
You do not need to know in advance. Tell us what is happening, and we can help identify the most useful starting point.
Can these service areas overlap?
Yes. Data governance, technology, archives, and decision support often touch the same systems. We scope the work around the problem you need to solve, not around rigid categories.
Do we need a fully defined project before reaching out?
No. A useful first conversation can begin with a concern, a decision, a system that is not working, or a question your team has not been able to answer.
Can work be phased across budget cycles or grant periods?
Often, yes. Advisory, assessment, implementation, and stewardship work can be scoped in phases when that better fits organizational constraints.
We're small or volunteer-run. Is there a reduced rate?
Yes. Organizations with no paid staff or annual budgets under $250,000 may qualify for a reduced rate.
Can we start with one focused issue?
Yes. Many engagements begin with a single decision, policy, workflow, system question, or advisory session.