Sense — Streaming · CDC · Edge telemetry
Sense is the intake manifold of the refinery. We treat every signal — revenue, risk, behaviour, sentiment, machine telemetry — as governed fuel from the moment it leaves its source. No silent loss, no shadow pipelines, no 'we'll add it later'.
Everything that ships
- Source inventory & priority mapTop 25 systems scored by revenue impact, freshness gap and risk.
- Kafka / Kinesis ingestion meshExactly-once topics, schema registry, dead-letter queues.
- CDC connectorsDebezium / Fivetran / native CDC for OLTP, SaaS and edge devices.
- Edge telemetry agentsLightweight collectors for IoT, POS, kiosks, vehicles, mobile.
- Freshness SLOsPer-source latency targets wired into PagerDuty + the Fuel gauge.
- Data Engineer
- Platform SRE
- Source-system SME
topic: orders.v3
producer: pos-edge
freshness_slo: 2s
schema_ref: registry://orders/3
keys: [order_id]
pii: [customer_id]
residency: eu-west-1
on_violation: dlq + page("data-sense")Weeks 1–3 · stream live by day 14
- 1Week 1Source survey
Map 25 priority systems, score by revenue lift and freshness gap.
- 2Week 2Mesh stand-up
Kafka/Kinesis topics, schema registry, DLQs, IaC-managed.
- 3Week 3Live cut-over
CDC + edge agents streaming, freshness SLOs wired to alerting.
Things prospects ask
No — we coexist. Sense streams change events alongside batch jobs, then we retire batch as confidence grows.
Lightweight collectors with store-and-forward + back-pressure. We've shipped on 2G fleet networks.
Stand up Sense in Weeks 1–3.
We'll respond within one business day with a scoping note, a fixed-price outcome contract, and a named principal. Your details sync straight into our concierge queue.
- • Outcome-priced — no T&M.
- • Sovereign by default — your data, your region, your keys.
- • Wired into the Fuel Pressure gauge from day one.