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Operating Partnership
A dedicated data and AI team that stays committed and drives the business.
Most consulting engagements end when the project does. Context walks out the door, momentum stalls, and the return on your data and AI investment plateaus. An Operating Partnership with OneSix is your long-term data and AI partner, continuously delivering, optimizing, and expanding what we have engineered together.
Challenges
The continuity gap
Data and AI investment loses ground the moment delivery stops. What separates organizations that compound their data and AI returns from those that plateau is operating continuity: ongoing strategic direction, embedded engineering capacity, and the institutional context that takes months to develop and walks out the door when the engagement ends.
What we typically see
- Context lost between engagements, with institutional knowledge walking out the door when each one ends.
- Innovation that stalls, with new use cases identified but never resourced or prioritized.
- Platform drift, with tech debt accumulating, costs rising, and performance declining unattended.
- Strategic priorities that shift with leadership or market changes, without a partner who carries the full picture.
What we deliver
An Operating Partnership is a long-term embedded relationship that compounds in value the longer it runs. The engagement centers on three disciplines that work in parallel and feed each other.
Advisory
Ongoing strategic direction from a team that knows your data and AI landscape as well as your own people do. We meet with your executive team on a defined cadence, identify priorities and tradeoffs as they shift, and produce the planning artifacts that keep the work aligned with the business.
- Executive cadence with strategic input, prioritization, and tradeoff review
- Quarterly planning and roadmap maintenance
- Executive reporting and stakeholder communication
Innovation
An ongoing pipeline of new use cases sourced from your business, our cross-industry experience, and the pace of the technology landscape. We bring opportunities forward, evaluate them against your strategy, and resource the ones that move the business.
- Opportunity identification across business needs and emerging technology
- Use case evaluation against strategic priorities and ROI thresholds
- Resourcing decisions for prioritized use cases, with delivery embedded in the team
Execution
The execution layer underneath the relationship. We deliver project work across our service lines (Strategy, Governance Blueprint, Data Foundations, Analytics, AI, and Governance Programs) with a team that carries your context across every initiative.
- A dedicated team of senior practitioners (architect, project manager, engineers) executing across all six service lines
- Continuous delivery without restarting context for each engagement
- Preferred pricing and prioritized staffing for engagements inside the partnership
Approach
12+ Months
Ongoing embedded partnership with a dedicated team
3 Disciplines
Strategic advisory, innovation pipeline, and execution
One Relationship
A team that knows your environment, your goals, and your stakeholders as well as your own people do
The longer we work together, the more value compounds. Context, delivery, and returns all accelerate with the relationship. New engagements move through the partnership with preferred pricing and prioritized staffing.
Value
Continuity drives velocity and scale
Designed for organizations running multiple active data and AI workstreams that need a continuous relationship rather than a series of disconnected projects. The math works because context, preferred pricing, and flex expertise compound: every new engagement starts from deep institutional knowledge of your strategy, environment, and goals rather than from scratch.
What you get
Outcome-oriented relationship
Preferred pricing across all engagements
Prioritized staffing and resource allocation
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FAQs
What does this engagement actually deliver?
A long-term embedded relationship with a dedicated team of senior practitioners delivering across all six OneSix service lines. The partnership includes ongoing strategic advisory, an active innovation pipeline, execution, and executive reporting. The output is continuous value that compounds as the team's context on your environment deepens over time.
How is this different from a retainer or staff augmentation?
An Operating Partnership is a structured, outcome-oriented relationship. You get a dedicated team (architect, project manager, engineers), ongoing strategic advisory, an innovation pipeline, and execution against the strategy. The focus is on continuous delivery and compounding value.
How is the team structured?
Every Operating Partnership includes a dedicated architect, project manager, and engineers scoped to your workload. The team size scales with your needs and flexes as priorities shift.
What does the investment cover?
A dedicated team, ongoing strategic advisory, project execution, platform optimization, and executive reporting. Preferred pricing applies to any additional engagements outside the core scope.
Can we cancel if the engagement is not working?
Yes. You can cancel anytime with 30 days notice. No long-term lock-in.
Who should be involved from your side?
Operating Partnership is typically led by a CDO, CIO, or CTO. It works best when there is executive sponsorship and a clear internal owner who manages the relationship and helps prioritize workstreams.