Your data department, as a service

The quiet machine behind well-run businesses.

We build your company's data engine: every system connected, an AI analyst that already knows your numbers, and the right data in front of the right people, right on time. Set up once. It just runs.

Connects to the systems you already run
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10+
systems connected, out of the box
≤6 wks
from kickoff to live
24/7
pipelines that never sleep
~0
meetings required
What we build

A full data department. Nobody to manage.

Three steps, one system underneath: find the leaks, wire the engine, automate the work.

The Savings Audit

Start here

A fixed-fee sweep of your payroll, subscriptions, and vendor spend. We find the money you're leaking before asking you to spend any.

  • Payroll leaks: premiums, overtime, commissions
  • SaaS & license waste, forgotten subscriptions
  • Vendor overcharges & duplicate spend
Fixed fee, days not weeks · typically finds a multiple of its cost · repeated quarterly for platform clients

The Data Engine

Flagship

Your booking, payroll, accounting, and sales systems, connected into one warehouse that updates itself every day.

  • Daily revenue email, every morning
  • Board-ready monthly report, automatic
  • Live dashboards for every location
  • An AI analyst your team can ask anything
Flat monthly · replaces a $5k/mo BI vendor or an analyst hire

AI Operations

Add-on

Let the robots do the robot work. Once the engine runs, we automate the approvals and follow-ups your managers still handle by hand, and your people get back to the human work.

  • Commission engines with auto approve / reject
  • Employee portals with live scoreboards
  • Agents that act, not just answer
Built when your business pulls for it, never speculative
And the wider catalog, built to order at a flat price:
Custom integrations Board & investor reporting Payroll → accounting sync Marketing attribution Cashflow forecasting Commission & approval engines Employee portals AI agents & analysts Self-hosted platforms (support, chat)
Standalone product · For California employers

Wage & Hour Compliance Engine

California's wage rules for split shifts, meal and rest penalties, and waiting-time pay are miscalculated by most payroll systems, and the exposure compounds quietly until it becomes a lawsuit. Our engine computes them correctly on every payroll and quantifies what's at stake before anyone else finds it.

  • Fixed-fee exposure audit that runs from a payroll export, in days not weeks
  • Ongoing monitoring: every payroll checked before it pays out
  • Works alongside any payroll system, no switching required
Ask about the exposure audit Calculations for management and counsel review, not legal advice
Exposure audit · sample output
Split-shift premiumsRECALCULATED
Meal & rest penaltiesFLAGGED
Waiting-time payQUANTIFIED
Regular rate of payVERIFIED
Overtime across locationsRECONCILED
Per-employee, per-pay-period detail · prioritized by exposure
How it works

Live in four to six weeks.

1

Connect

We plug into the systems you already use. No rip-and-replace, no IT team required. If it has a login, we can connect it.

2

Build

Warehouse built, reports designed with you, dashboards live, AI analyst trained on your numbers.

3

Run

Then it just runs. Reports arrive on schedule. Questions get answered. We meet quarterly, mostly to show you what else we found.

Case study · a multi-state fitness chain, multiple wage jurisdictions

Built inside a real business, not a demo.

The engine runs live in production, end to end: seven data pipelines, payroll and commission automation, a compliance calculator, an AI analyst per department.

It replaced a $5,250-a-month BI vendor, caught six figures a year in payroll miscalculation, turned a week of monthly reporting into one command, and hands people back thousands of hours a year for the work that actually needs a human, from the studio floor to the CEO.

Roughly $500k of value a year against a $4,500-a-month platform, about 9-to-1 annually.

None of it is one-off. The engine is modular (connectors, warehouse, reports, agents), so we configure it to the systems you already run: any business, any size, growing without new hires.

Verified annual savings
Split-shift fix$100k+
BI vendor replaced$63k
Support self-hosted≈$30k
License cleanup$6.7k
Verified subtotal$200k+
Monthly board report1 command
Commission lines auto-decided>99%
Attested estimates, rounded down
Hours handed back≈2,700/yr · ≈$190k
Hiring avoided$100k+/yr
Verified savings + attested value≈$500k/yr
Chart and counts are measured from production data; the attested value comes from operator attestations at loaded rates, rounded down. Methodology on request.

Why Mainspring Data?

In a watch, the mainspring is the coiled steel that powers everything. Every gear and every hand runs on it. You never see it working. You just get the time.

A spring is also where a river starts. That's the other half of the name. We build the main spring of your business: the source your numbers, your reports, and your decisions all flow from.

It winds itself, it runs without tending, and the ai was in mainspring all along.

Most vendors want meetings.
We want your reports on time.

Tell us what you need to see to run your business. We'll make it arrive automatically: right numbers, right people, right on time.