StreamPath NexLab is a small consultancy that helps organisations untangle process bottlenecks, data pipelines, and workflow decisions. Built to last, not to impress.
A two-to-three-week review of one operational area. We interview the people doing the work, map the actual flow (not the org-chart version), and iden…
From $3,800We trace your data from its source systems through every transform, join, and schedule to its final destination. We document what we find in a plain-…
From $4,500For teams that have outgrown their original process. We run two to three structured workshops, interview key roles, and write a workflow spec that co…
From $5,200When the same type of decision gets made differently depending on who is in the room, the problem is usually that the logic is in people's heads rath…
From $3,200Marcus Hale started StreamPath NexLab in 2019 after eight years inside large organisations. Two at a logistics firm in Rotterdam, three at a mid-size SaaS company in Austin, and a final stretch as an internal …
Contact usWe spend the first week listening and mapping before we write a single recommendation. Most problems are not what they look like on the surface.
Marcus takes on three active clients at most. That means your project gets real attention, not a junior hand-off after the kickoff call.
Every document, diagram, and data model we produce is yours. No proprietary formats, no vendor lock-in, no reason to keep paying us to read our own work.
Reports are written for the person who has to act on them, not for the person who commissioned them. If a sentence needs a glossary, we rewrite it.
We agree on scope, timeline, and price before work starts. If scope changes, we talk about it openly before the invoice changes.
A process audit sounds straightforward: look at how work moves, find what is slow or broken, write it down. In practice, the hard part is not the analysis. It is getting to the real process rather than the one people think they are supposed to describe. This guide covers how we approach that problem.
Read more →The most dangerous data pipeline problems are not the ones that throw an error. They are the ones that complete successfully and return a wrong answer. A join that silently drops 3% of rows. A schedule that stopped refreshing two weeks ago. A transform that handles nulls differently depending on the source system. These failures are hard to find because nothing breaks visibly.
Read more →There is a point in most growing teams where the process that worked at ten people stops working at twenty-five. It is not a sudden break. It is a slow accumulation of workarounds, informal tools, and decisions that used to be obvious and now need to be explained. By the time it becomes a crisis, the team has usually been compensating for months.
Read more →Marcus Hale spent eight years in operational roles before founding StreamPath NexLab in 2019. He trained in process mapping under a lean-operations team in Rotterdam, then spent three years as a workflow lead at a SaaS company in Austin before moving to Portland, Oregon. He is obsessive about plumb lines: if a process has a hidden tilt, he will find it. Outside work he builds dry-stone garden walls on weekends, which he says teaches the same lesson every time: a bad base makes every course above it harder. He reads slowly and takes notes by hand.
Most process audits run two to three weeks. Data pipeline reviews are usually three to four weeks depending on how many systems are involved. Workflow design engagements, which include workshops, typically run four to six weeks. We agree on the timeline before we start and we stick to it.
Mostly remote. For workflow design engagements that include workshops, we prefer at least one on-site day if the client is within reasonable travel distance of Portland. Travel costs are billed at cost, no markup.
Logistics, healthcare administration, and mid-size software teams are where most of our work lands. We have also worked with a regional food distributor and a nonprofit with a complex grant-reporting process. If the problem is operational and the organisation is willing to be honest about it, we can usually help.
