Scale-Up Data Refoundation Powering a New Insurance Business
Refounded the entire data stack and delivered a patent-pending AI risk-scoring engine for a KKR-backed scale-up.
Context
A KKR-backed French scale-up — online driving school plus insurance, 2.5M+ customers — had hit the scale-up breaking point: a data team of four, a fragmented stack, and the launch of a new insurance line requiring fundamentally new data capabilities. Constellations was brought in as Executive CDO to lead the full refoundation.
Scope & Deliverables
- Stack Refoundation: Rebuilt the entire data stack end to end, including modeling, warehousing and MLOps tooling.
- Team Scaling: Scaled the team from 3 to 23, adding Analytics Engineering and ML Engineering roles under new scale-up governance.
- Self-Service Analytics: Built embedded product analytics and self-service capabilities with data champions across the organization.
- AI Risk Engine: Delivered a patent-pending AI risk-scoring engine powering insurance pricing for young drivers.
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Constellations Impact
- New insurance business launched on a refounded data stack, with young drivers becoming the best-performing risk segment.
- Marketplace liquidity, fraud detection, and business forecasting now live on the platform, with Finance, Product and Marketing reconciled on one data backbone.