Riso Group

Do more with your business data

Consulting, Advising, Fractional Exec

Analytics

  • Marketing attribution, lift, ROI
  • Product analytics & event tracking
  • Cohort analysis
  • A/B testing & experimentation

Data Science, ML, AI

  • Predictive LTV
  • Data agents & AI automation
  • Personalization & recommendation
  • AI strategy & evaluation

Data Engineering & Analytics Engineering

  • Self-service dashboards
  • ETL & data pipelines
  • Data warehousing

Featured Insights

Bar chart comparing median monthly ETL cost estimates from 3 LLMs across Fivetran, Airbyte, and Estuary
Using AI to Estimate Software Costs

We asked Claude, Gemini, and GPT to price Fivetran, Airbyte, and Estuary — 20 times each. They didn't agree.

James Riso James Riso • 7 min read
Table showing product analytics / CDP / event software adoption: PostHog leads at 39% overall
PostHog is eating product analytics

PostHog grew from 9% to 39% adoption in product analytics, CDP, and event infrastructure software in 24 months. 61% of first-time buyers choose PostHog, per Ramp data.

James Riso James Riso • 1 min read
Table showing top 10 BI tools by adoption in high-growth tech companies
Top 10 BI Tools by Adoption: January 2026

Which BI tools are the most popular? Looker and Tableau lead, but Hex, Sigma, and Omni are ones to watch.

James Riso James Riso • 1 min read
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Case Studies

Driving Meta Ad Spend Efficiency with LTV Prediction Machine Learning Models
Driving Meta Ad Spend Efficiency with LTV Prediction Machine Learning Models
Data Science PLG
Enabling Critical Insights Through Dashboards Built into a SaaS Product
Enabling Critical Insights Through Dashboards Built into a SaaS Product
Product Analytics E-commerce
Legal Services Case Study
Streamlining Data Warehousing and Business Logic to Support B2B, B2C, and M&A Integration
Data Infrastructure

About James

James Riso is an expert in using data to drive business impact.

  • VP of Data Science & Analytics at Daily Harvest — grew the function through $1.1B valuation, drove millions in revenue and profit
  • Previously at Uber and Cornerstone Research (economic consulting)
  • MBA, University of Chicago Booth (Econometrics & Statistics); BA, Georgetown (Economics & Philosophy)
  • Brooklyn, NY native — splits time between NYC and New Orleans
Uber
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Daily Harvest
Georgetown University

Technical

Data Warehouses: Snowflake, Google BigQuery, AWS Redshift, Databricks, ClickHouse  ·  BI: Looker, Sigma, Omni, Metabase, Hex, Tableau, Streamlit  ·  CDP & Product Analytics: RudderStack, Segment, Amplitude, Mixpanel, Heap, Hightouch, Google Analytics  ·  ETL: Fivetran, Airbyte, Hevo, Polytomic  ·  AI/LLM: Claude Code, Anthropic API, OpenAI API, Vertex AI  ·  More: SQL, Python, JavaScript, R, dbt, Excel

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