The firm

Founder-led. Remote-first. Anti-hype.

Pranav Shah

Founder · Principal Consultant

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Anchor Data Labs is a data consulting and contracting firm run by Pranav Shah. We do the unglamorous, high-stakes work underneath AI: governing data, migrating it without breaking reporting, automating what's manual, and re-engineering the content an AI agent retrieves from.

We work both ends of the market, from large enterprise engagements to small outsourced projects, remotely for clients anywhere. When a piece of that work stops needing a human, we turn it into a product. ContextScore is the first.

Every engagement runs the same way. We diagnose before we prescribe, scope to what you actually need, deliver, and hand it over in a state your team can run without us. If we're not the right firm for the job, we say so early.

The stance is deliberately quiet. While the field shouts ungrounded AI promises, we sell structural integrity, governance, and auditable, human-in-the-loop work. Every judgment cites its evidence, and the uncertain ones are flagged rather than asserted.

Capital One (US & UK)

Principal Data Analyst across US and UK financial infrastructure: data-center exits, cloud migrations, and on-prem modernization, with reporting kept live throughout.

Rio Tinto

Custom ML for time-series sensor analysis that beat the vendor model by 30%; replaced manual planning with Power BI + SQL Server.

University of Utah

MS Computer Science. Academic grounding in coreference resolution and semantic-similarity methods.