Frame the decision
Choose the business question, clarify metrics and success criteria, and establish what the evidence must answer.
THE ACCIDENTAL ANALYST · PRIVATE CORPORATE PROGRAM
Your team has the numbers. Can they defend the decision?
Decision-Ready AI Analytics Accelerator
In six weeks, I teach your finance and analytics team to use AI and your approved data to verify the evidence, challenge assumptions, and present a recommendation leadership can trust.
One company · Up to 12 participants · Five live 2-hour sessions · One consequential business decision
Led by Stephen McDaniel. I've built the models. I know what to question.
NetflixFirst data scientist; customer lifetime-value analytics
TableauHelped develop its original hands-on training program
30,000+Professionals taught across his career
$1B+Pharma transaction supported by analytical modeling
THE REAL PROBLEM
A convincing answer is not necessarily a reliable one.
AI makes it easier to produce forecasts, dashboards, and explanations. But the underlying definitions, comparisons, assumptions, and decision logic still need a human challenge.
“Looks convincing. Prove it.”
Can we rebuild the evidence?
What else could explain the result?
Does the recommended action hold up?
What evidence would change our minds?
ONE COMPANY CASE · SIX WEEKS
Teach the method. Practice it on a real decision.
Five private 2-hour working sessions, plus guided practice. Your team does the analysis; Stephen teaches, reviews, challenges, and coaches.
Verify the evidence
Check source data, calculations, definitions, comparisons, and AI-generated results.
Investigate alternatives
Apply the method between sessions: competing explanations, missing context, and consequential assumptions.
Challenge the conclusion
Stress-test what the findings do and do not support. Examine scenarios, sensitivity, and uncertainty.
Make the recommendation
Translate findings into a decision with options, constraints, tradeoffs, and a clear rationale.
Defend the capstone
Present the team's decision case to its executive sponsor, answer challenges, and define follow-up checks.
WHAT YOUR COMPANY RECEIVES
A stronger team, not another deck of slides.
- Sponsor kickoff and one agreed decision case
- Five live sessions with practical team assignments
- Reusable checks, templates, and session recordings
- Executive-ready capstone and decision review
- A repeatable approach the team can apply afterward
TWO SIMPLE NEXT STEPS
Start with the decision that matters.
Ready to train the team? Go straight to the Accelerator. Need a documented baseline first? Start with an optional diagnostic.
Decision-Ready AI Analytics Accelerator
$25,000 founding; then $39,000
Up to 12 participants. Five live working sessions, reusable method, and a defended executive capstone.
Request Executive DiscoveryDecision Integrity Diagnostic
$3,000
Review one existing dashboard or analysis, receive prioritized written findings, and discuss them in a 60-minute executive readout.
Fully credited toward an Accelerator purchased within 30 days. Not required before enrolling.
Discuss a Diagnostic →The optional private Practice Lab is available as a post-Accelerator continuation. It is not the public Data Craft Workshop.
AFTER THE ACCELERATOR · PRIVATE COMPANY FOLLOW-THROUGH
Decision Integrity Practice Lab
For participating company teams that want to keep applying the method to their actual, approved work after the six-week Accelerator. This is not the public Data Craft Workshop.
Use the work already on your desk.
$5,000/month · 3-month minimum
- Two private team clinics per month
- Two bounded asynchronous analysis reviews per month
- Up to five founder hours per month overall
- Only approved client materials, with scope and data access agreed in advance
The Data Craft Workshop
$450/quarter
For individuals developing their skills. Each Thursday, join a public one-hour group session using Stephen's prepared datasets, live questions, and replays. No private review of your company's analyses.
See individual weekly practice →PRACTICAL ANSWERS
Questions your CFO and team may ask.
Who participates?
One company team of up to 12, including finance, FP&A, BI, analytics, and business decision owners. The exact mix is agreed during discovery.
Do we need Claude?
No. We use the tools your organization approves. The value is the analytical method: choosing the question, verifying evidence, challenging explanations, and defending decisions.
Can you work with our actual data?
Yes, if it is approved, prepared, and permitted for the selected tools. We define the scope and data-handling terms before work begins. Never submit data or confidential documents through this form.
Do we need a Diagnostic first?
No. You can buy the Accelerator directly. The $3,000 Diagnostic is available when a sponsor wants an initial independent look at one analysis before committing.
Is the Practice Lab the same as the Thursday Data Craft Workshop?
No. The $450/quarter Data Craft Workshop is an open, individual group using Stephen’s prepared non-confidential cases. The $5,000/month Decision Integrity Practice Lab is a private corporate continuation after the Accelerator, using the client's approved work in bounded clinics and reviews.
What is outside scope?
Production application builds, extended data preparation, custom engineering, and unlimited analytical consulting. Those are not included in the six-week fixed fee.
How are pricing and payment handled?
Scope, delivery dates, and payment terms are agreed in writing. Corporate invoices or purchase order references can be coordinated before the program begins.
FREE 20-MINUTE EXECUTIVE DISCOVERY
Tell me which decision needs better analysis.
Share a little context. Stephen will reply personally to arrange a brief conversation and determine whether the Accelerator or a smaller first step fits.