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 • 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 • 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 • 1 min read

View All Insights

Case Studies

Driving Meta Ad Spend Efficiency with LTV Prediction Machine Learning Models

Data Science PLG

Enabling Critical Insights Through Dashboards Built into a SaaS Product

Product Analytics E-commerce

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