Our philosophy is simple: we try to make it easier for our clients to understand their data. This means that everything we do is transparent; our consultants are excellent communicators and effectively transfer knowledge to people from all levels of organisations. We avoid the "black box" approach. Where possible, we work on the client's site, and empower them to reproduce our work.

Part of our philosophy is enabling clients to use their own data more effectively. We like to concentrate on the interesting high level analysis, so we help organisations automate their repetitive work. This involves automating as many processes as possible. There is no point having someone collecting a salary for doing things that the computer could do, if we told it how.

At Offlode we have a research culture; we want to be constantly growing and developing new techniques, not doing the same thing day in and day out. Ideally, you should only hire us for a specific project once; next time you should already have the tools to do it yourself, and we can move onto helping you with something more exciting.

Our name says it all: Offlode. This implies letting us do the hard work for you, it implies a transfer of knowledge and skills, and the play on "lode" is a link to the data mining skills we provide, and the gold vein that is often associated with use of our services.