The Team · Est. 2001

We found our people in 2001.
We haven't stopped working together since.

It's not rare for people to find their people. It is rare for them to keep building together across companies, decades, and every major wave of technology change. That's the story of Marquis Data.

Paul Ausserer
Co-Founder
Chris Beck
Co-Founder
Sarah McCarthy
Co-Founder
Paul, Chris, and Sarah, Marquis Data team off-site in the Pacific Northwest
Pacific Northwest · Team off-site
Our Story

Coming from software. Staying for the data.

Paul, Chris, and Sarah started working together in 2001 and have been helping clients navigate their data ever since. They came up through software development in the early 2000s, were early adopters when mobile software took off, and made a deliberate move into pure data in 2010, before "data strategy" was a job title.

That transition wasn't accidental. They saw what was coming: that the bottleneck in every business wasn't the software doing the work, it was the data making the decisions. So they went deep.

Since then, they've been hands-on across nearly the entire modern history of data analysis, from the tools, to the teams, to the decisions those tools were supposed to support. The mission has been the same since day one: help people make better decisions, faster.

Paul, Chris, and Sarah at the Seattle waterfront
Seattle, WA
We've been here through all of it

The tools have changed. The need hasn't.

Leaders have always wanted to leverage data in their decisions. That was true in 2000. It's true today. What's changed is how much help they need getting there.

Early 2000s
Mainframes & Greenbar
COBOL, JCL, batch jobs, printed reports. Data was real, and slow.
Mid 2000s
Excel & Access
Client-server, distributed data access. The spreadsheet era begins.
Late 2000s
Crystal Reports & WEBI
Enterprise reporting arrives. Business Objects, SAP WEBI, remember that?
2010s
Cloud BI & Self-Service
Tableau, Power BI, the self-service promise. Dashboards got beautiful. Results were mixed.
Now
Natural Language AI
Claude, GPT, MCP servers. The interface changes again. The data problem doesn't.

Through every wave, one thing stayed constant: leaders want data in their decisions, and they need the right people to make that happen.

Our mission · Since inception
"Helping people make better decisions, faster."

Technology advances. The mission doesn't. We meet decision-makers where they are and where they need to make decisions, because people are still the decision-makers. They come with biases, with context, with situations. Context is where we come in.

Data-Driven
Data-Supported

The industry loves "data-driven decisions." We prefer a different framing. Data can't drive a decision, people do. They bring judgment, experience, and accountability. What data can do is triangulate the decision: reduce uncertainty, surface what's hidden, and improve the odds of a great outcome. We provide that context. You make the call.

What guides us

Four values. Built in from day one. Never negotiated.

01
Steadfast Integrity
We say what we mean and do what we say. If something isn't working, with the data, with the platform, with the engagement, we'll tell you. Every time.
02
Genuine Compassion
Our clients are navigating real business pressure. Board meetings, integrations, tight timelines. We show up for them, not just for the data pipeline.
03
Relentless Pursuit
Manufacturing data is genuinely hard. ERP data is messy. Multi-entity consolidation is complex. We don't stop when it gets hard. That's the job.
04
Authentic Enthusiasm
We genuinely love data, love technology, and love sharing that passion. Marquis IQ is the platform we always wished existed. Building it never gets old.

25 years of working together. Let's put it to work for you.

We'll connect to your ERP, run your data through the platform, and show you what Marquis IQ looks like in your environment, in 30 minutes, with your numbers.