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Satchel & Boot

Your data. Our expertise. Real change.

problem solved.

We help organisations, from large institutions to growing businesses, run better. We find what is really happening in your data, fix the processes and systems around it, and stay until you see it in your numbers.

Your data.

The truth about your organisation is already in your data. We start there: with what is actually happening, not what is assumed.

Illustrative: eleven data sources connected; accuracy rising from about 60% to about 98%; records cleansed growing week by week; security controls in place rising from 90% to 99%.

Our expertise.

Then we bring what our team has trained in and worked across: finance, engineering, strategy, operations, mathematics, economics, environmental science and innovation. A select team of very different minds. Finance meets engineering, strategy meets data, and together we see what any single specialism would miss. All of it applied to what your data shows: what it means, what it costs and what to change.

Illustrative: consulting hours rise while the problem is worked and fall as your team takes over; insights found appear one by one, one of them where finance and engineering meet; four processes automated: invoice matching, exception triage, monthly reporting and data validation.

Real change.

And we execute, beside your team as a partner or on your behalf, until the change is running and the numbers show it.

Illustrative: adoption moving from starting, through building, to embedded; time saved rising to 4 hours per person per week; EBIT lifting by 3%; the return on the engagement rising to 2.5x, with a link to the proof.

  1. Data
  2. Information
  3. Knowledge
  4. Insight
  5. Intelligence

See how an engagement works

We are a data-first consulting and execution firm.

  • Data-first: Numbers tell stories. We start with yours.
  • Consulting: Experience, made real for your organisation.
  • Execution: The proof, working in your business.

Where our people have worked

  • City Power Johannesburg
  • Correctional Services
  • DGB
  • Eskom
  • Gary Kirsten
  • King James
  • Medicross
  • Nando's
  • Netcare
  • Netstar
  • P&G
  • Public Protector
  • PwC
  • Rand Water
  • Rural Development
  • Sasol
  • Social Development
  • Sytfin
  • TiC & Mend
  • University of Pretoria

Between us, we have worked in and on organisations across the public and private sector. We converged that experience into one firm dedicated to change, enablement and execution.

Industries we work in

Data is just the start.

How an engagement works

  1. Start

    Three weeks on one defined problem. We bring your data into a single trusted view and deliver a formal report: what we found, why it matters and a clear plan for what comes next.

    About Data Unity

  2. Build

    We build the solution with you, piece by piece, each part checked against your own numbers before it reaches leadership.

    About Rapid Application Development

  3. Embed

    We run it beside your team until the new way is simply how you work, then hand it over, or keep running it for you.

    About Embedded Boots

Where do you start?

These are guiding pillars, learned from industry, from the field and from what the market experiences. They are not steps and there is no order to climb.

Choose the one that sounds most like you.

What we do

The control gap is the distance between what is actually happening in your organisation and what leadership can see and act on in time.

Four disciplines close it.

The disciplines overlap by design.

Trusted data

Establishes reliable, well-governed data foundations and analytical assets that convert raw inputs into decision-ready information.

Measured performance

Aligns processes and performance to outcomes through structured measurement, analysis, and continuous improvement.

Live operating picture

Delivers a live operating picture: dashboards, alerts, and embedded insights, so decisions are timely, consistent, and actionable.

Location intelligence

Pinpoints where something is going wrong: a site, a team, a process or a place, physical or virtual.

These four disciplines sit inside every service we offer.

See all services

We work in Microsoft, Google and open-source GIS tools, and choose on merit.

A representative view of the tools we work with, not an exhaustive list.

  • Power BI
  • Fabric
  • Power Apps
  • Azure
  • SQL Server
  • Azure SQL
  • Google Cloud
  • BigQuery
  • Looker
  • GitHub
  • Notion
  • Esri Survey123
  • ArcGIS Dashboards
  • PostgreSQL and PostGIS
  • Tableau
Proof it holds

Municipalities, international fast-food chains, national institutions and local businesses. Different worlds, one common catalyst: data.

We measure adoption, not applause

Revenue recovered
Over 70x

Revenue recovered and added exceeded the cost of the work more than seventyfold, on a municipal scale.

See the case study

Loss reduction
40% to 25%

Losses reduced from 40% to 25% over six months, by building validation and exception resolution into the operation.

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Delivery
27 days

against an 84-day plan

A municipal Smart Centre operating picture, a first for the institution, built and operationalised in 27 days against an 84-day plan.

See the case study

Results from engagements at one of South Africa's largest metropolitan utilities, delivered alongside the institution's own teams. We execute beside our clients, so these are shared results, and we are proud of that. See the case studies

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