About Stratus Data

Stratus Data brings AI expertise from Silicon Valley with a quick win, value-driven focus to PE-Backed Middle Market Manufacturers
300+
Projects
75+
Clients
8+
Years in Operation
Specialization
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Data Unification
Data unification across disparate systems
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Insights & Reporting
Dashboards and analyses enabling realtime views of financial performance and operations
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Forecasting, Alerting, & Scoring
Machine learning that predicts the future and simplifies complexity for you
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Artificial Intelligence
AI-powered interfaces to your data and LLM-powered workflows

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Recognition
Trusted by

As Seen In

Award-Winning Impact

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Team
Founders
Charles Pensig, Co-Founder
  • Assistant Director, The Wharton School's Center for AI
  • Research Fellow, NYU Stern's Center for Digital Economy
  • 3x hyper growth IoT and Wearables Data Science leader
  • 20 years applied AI and Analytics experience
Derek Chang, PhD, Co-Founder
  • PhD Stanford EE, BS Caltech EE
  • Former nuclear fusion researcher
  • 2x hyper growth Wearables and SaaS Data Science Leader
  • 20 years applied AI and Engineering Experience

Work Experience

Education: STEM PhDs and Masters

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Operating Philosophy

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Listen Carefully
Listen for what matters to create impact.
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Drive Value
Focus on solutions that drive revenue, gross margin, opex and capex efficiency, and eventually EBITDA and EV.
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Start Simple
Start simple. Capture 80% of the value with
20% of the effort.
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Win Quick
Build momentum by creating solutions that prove value quickly.
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Partner for the Long Run
With a sturdy, scalable, future-forward
technology foundation, we plan and build towards our client's long term vision and success.

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Ready to turn AI into EBITDA?
Let's see how Stratus Data can support you.


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Appendix

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Case Studies

Stratus Data

Solving messy data and top-heavy product performance

In 2020, Nasco CEO Ken Miller noticed that messy data and outdated techniques were interfering with the accuracy of foundational company-wide initiatives. Miller teamed up with Stratus Data to upgrade Nasco to a data-driven organization.

Stratus Data

AI-optimized scheduling for national logistics operation.

Examinetics provides on-site medical screening and industrial hygiene consulting for more than 3000 companies in 18,000 locations across the contiguous United States...

Stratus Data

Transformed fragmented data for a beloved snack company

The client is a leading snack producer specializing in contract manufacturing and food service. When a private equity firm acquired a majority of the company’s shares in 2023, the PE partners saw an opportunity for improving the snack company’s use of data. At the time of acquisition, the snack company was maintaining more than 350 […]

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Custom data pipelines for a fintech company

“Instead of waiting days or weeks for reports to make decisions, I have the information at my fingertips to make live decisions on the fly.”


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Articles

Forbes

Council Post: Three Types Of AI That Aren’t Generative—And Why They Matter

Generative tools may eventually reshape creative workflows, but predictive, optimization and data-driven AI are already reshaping business fundamentals.

Venturebeat

Replacing coders with AI? Why Bill Gates, Sam Altman and experience say you shouldn’t

In the race to automate everything – from customer service to code – AI is being heralded as a silver bullet. The narrative is seductive: AI tools that can write entire applications, streamline engineering teams and reduce the need for expensive human developers, along with hundreds of other jobs.

Forbes

Council Post: Why Most AI Projects Fail—And How To Build One That Succeeds

When companies focus on practical, user-centered implementation, AI can stop being an experiment and start having a real impact.


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