About TDI

UK-led. Globally delivered.

The Data Inc is a UK software, data and AI company, headquartered in Coventry and run by three co-founders who stay close to the work. Every project has one of us accountable for it.

Our story

Why TDI exists.

For twenty years I designed and delivered systems for telecom operators, energy utilities and public safety agencies. The hardware and software were rarely the problem. The problem was the data behind them: scattered across spreadsheets, PDFs and legacy systems, and trusted by nobody.

I kept seeing the same pattern. Large consultancies wrote the strategy and left. Software vendors sold a product and expected the client to fit around it. Nobody stayed to do the hard, unglamorous work of making the data right and building the system people actually use every day.

We started The Data Inc to be that team. Every project has a co-founder accountable for it, from the first workshop to go-live and beyond. Our engineers and analysts build what the work needs, and when we see the same problem in more than one place, we turn it into a product.

— Atif H Syed, Co-Founder

3Markets: UK, USA and KSA
80+US brands served in e-commerce data
26Engineers and analysts
How we deliver

Managed in the UK, built by our own team.

You contract with a UK company and always know who is responsible.

Who you contract with

THEDATAINC LTD, registered in England & Wales. Contracts, invoicing and data protection obligations sit with the UK company.

Who manages your project

A TDI partner owns every engagement, from the first call to go-live, and is your single point of contact.

Who builds it

Our own engineering team at TDI Pakistan Pvt Ltd, registered with the Pakistan Software Export Board. No subcontracting to unknown third parties.

How quality is kept

Written scope, working software every fortnight, partner review before every release, and access to client data limited to the named people on each project.

Leadership

Meet the co-founders.

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Atif H Syed
Co-Founder & Director, Technology

Atif H Syed

Systems and solution architect with 20 years across telecoms, energy and public safety.

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Atif has spent 20 years designing and delivering technology systems in telecoms, the energy sector and public safety. He started as a system design engineer at Motorola Solutions in the UK, then spent twelve years with NEC in Pakistan and Tokyo, leading solution design and programmes for transmission networks, SDN/NFV, smart energy, energy storage and cloud SaaS, and public safety systems including facial recognition and biometrics. He worked with government agencies and funders such as JICA, the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank, and built partnerships with IBM, Oracle, SAP and Siemens. At TDI he leads technology and solution architecture. He holds an MBA from Warwick Business School and studied data systems design and advanced statistics at LSE.

Waqas ur Rahman
Co-Founder & Director, Strategy & Finance

Waqas ur Rahman

Leads strategy, business development and financial planning.

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Waqas brings more than 20 years across telecoms, IT and business leadership. He started as a microwave transmission engineer at NEC, then managed a GSM-based fuel monitoring roll-out across 1,000 telecom tower sites with a budget of over $7.5M. He spent ten years running IT infrastructure for a Toronto legal firm and later served as CEO of a content and SEO company. Earlier, as a founder of Xerosector, he delivered franchise management software across 470 franchises of Pakistan's largest telecom operator. At TDI he oversees strategy, client acquisition and the long-term direction of our automation and SaaS products.

Muhammad Junaid
Co-Founder, Product Data & E-commerce

Muhammad Junaid

Leads product data, catalogue transformation and e-commerce operations.

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Junaid has spent more than 17 years in furniture e-commerce, running product management, catalogues and marketplace operations for US furniture businesses. He has managed product data and supply relationships with more than 50 manufacturers, and builds the enterprise data and workflow systems that keep large catalogues accurate across every sales channel. He began his career as a project manager at Xerosector, delivering telecom software projects alongside Waqas. At TDI he leads our e-commerce data practice.

How we are different

What you can hold us to.

Partner-led delivery

A partner owns every project, from the first call to go-live.

Scope agreed in writing

You see the scope, timeline and price before any work starts.

Working software every fortnight

Short sprints, so you see progress early and can change direction cheaply.

Private AI on your data

We build on open models that can run inside your own environment.

UK contracts, global delivery

Contract with a UK company, with delivery teams serving the UK, USA and KSA.

Support after go-live

Monitoring, fixes and improvements once the system is live.

Clients

Who we have worked with.

Client names are withheld for confidentiality.

UK & Europe
  • Data work in the UK health sector
  • A multinational telecom group
USA
  • 80+ furniture brands
  • Marketplace operations on Amazon, Walmart and Wayfair
GCC & KSA
Credentials

Registered and accountable.

Companies House

THEDATAINC LTD, registered in England & Wales, Company No. 16241687.

Delivery centre

TDI Pakistan Pvt Ltd, registered with the Pakistan Software Export Board.

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