DataDock What We Build How We Work FAQ
HK DataCrest · Product Studio

A product studio for the AI software
you can't buy and can't hire to build.

We design and ship custom AI tools, internal platforms, and data products for operating teams at USA companies. Makers of DataDock, our flagship natural-language layer for data warehouses.

Featured work

Every operating team has an AI wishlist.
Almost none of them can get it built.

Off-the-shelf SaaS doesn't solve it — your workflow is too specific, your data lives in the wrong places, and the tool that fits 80% of the market fits you at 40%.

Hiring doesn't solve it either. Senior AI engineers take six months to find, a year to ramp, and won't ship your internal tool before they're poached.

That's the gap HK DataCrest was built to close. We're a small, senior product studio that designs, engineers, and ships the AI and data software your team actually needs — end-to-end, under one roof, under one contract.

Flagship Product

Meet DataDock.
The natural-language layer for your data warehouse.

Ask your data anything in plain English. Get answers, charts, and dashboards back — instantly.

DataDock is our in-house product — the clearest proof of what HK DataCrest can ship. Connect your warehouse, point DataDock at the tables that matter, and your team can ask questions the way they think: "Which 10 customers are about to churn?", "What's our margin by region this quarter?", "Show me the outliers in last week's orders."

If DataDock is what you need, book a demo. If you need something custom built on the same foundation — a private assistant over your own data, a bespoke AI tool for your team — that's what the rest of this studio does.

Ask in plain English

Chat with your data, get answers with charts.

Instant dashboards

Auto-generated, interactive, shareable.

Connect Snowflake in minutes

Other warehouses available on request.

Enterprise-ready

Read-only by design, full audit log, SOC 2 path.

datadock.app

Three things we do, and do seriously.

We don't do websites, we don't do mobile apps, we don't do "digital transformation." We ship custom AI and data software to production. That's it.

01 · Fixed-Scope Build · 3–8 weeks

Custom AI Applications

Private AI assistants, RAG systems, and GenAI products built on your data, your workflows, your brand.

  • Internal knowledge assistants over docs, wikis, support tickets
  • Customer-facing AI features inside your product
  • RAG systems with your own retrieval, evals, and guardrails
  • Agentic workflows that run in production

Stack: Python · OpenAI / Anthropic · LangChain · Postgres + pgvector · Next.js

02 · Fixed-Scope Build · 2–6 weeks

Internal Tools & Dashboards

The admin panels, ops dashboards, and internal apps your team needs yesterday — built properly, not in a no-code tool that breaks in a year.

  • Operational dashboards on your existing databases
  • Internal tools for support, ops, finance, content
  • Approval flows, review queues, bulk-action consoles
  • Replacements for that one Retool / Airtable holding your company together

Stack: Next.js / React · Node / Python · Postgres · Tailwind · Vercel / AWS

03 · Fixed-Scope or Retained

Data Products

Customer-facing data products, embedded analytics, and DataDock-style experiences over your own data.

  • Customer-facing dashboards embedded in your product
  • Bespoke "ask your data" tools for a specific team
  • Visualization layers over Snowflake or your existing databases
  • DataDock deployments customized for your business

Stack: Python · FastAPI · React · Postgres / Snowflake · LLM APIs

We don't take on: marketing sites, mobile app clones, blockchain/crypto, or anything where the best answer is an off-the-shelf SaaS tool. When that's what you need, we'll tell you.

Two ways to work with us.
One way we ship.

  1. 01

    Scoping call

    Free, 20 min. You describe the problem. We tell you if it's a fit, and what it looks like to build.

  2. 02

    Written proposal

    Within 3 days. Scope, deliverables, timeline, and fixed price. No surprises.

  3. 03

    Build in weekly sprints

    Demos every Friday. Slack access to the team. You see it ship as it's built.

  4. 04

    Ship to your production

    Deployed on your infra, with docs and a handover. Optional retainer if you want us to keep iterating.

Our first client projects
are under NDA.

We're a young studio, and we're honest about it. Our early client work is covered by NDAs we intend to keep. DataDock is the public proof of what we can ship — everything else, we'll walk you through on a call.

The case studies on this site will be real, named, and linked — not invented. We'd rather have a quiet section than a loud lie.

Boring tech. Senior decisions.

We default to a small, proven stack: Python and FastAPI on the backend, Next.js and React on the frontend, Postgres for most data, OpenAI and Anthropic APIs for LLMs, LangChain and pgvector where they earn their keep, deployed on AWS or Vercel. We pick boring tools on purpose. New frameworks are a tax your business pays later.

Honest answers to the questions
that matter.

We're a small, senior product studio with a core engineering team working full-time. Small on purpose — it's how we keep quality up and communication direct.

Our engineering team is in India and we work USA business hours for our USA clients. All code, product decisions, and delivery happen under one roof at HK DataCrest.

Fixed-scope builds start at $15,000 and are quoted end-to-end — scope, timeline, and price locked before we start. Retained Studio engagements start at $12,000/month for a senior slice of our team. We send a written proposal within 3 days of a scoping call.

DataDock is our public proof. Early client projects are under NDA — we'll walk you through them privately on a call if you're evaluating us seriously.

Marketing websites, mobile app clones, no-code glue work, and anything a good off-the-shelf SaaS tool would solve better. When that's the right answer, we'll say so.

Book a demo. DataDock connects to Snowflake today, with other warehouses available on request. We'll show you your questions answered against a sample dataset on the call.

Yes. Standard NDAs signed same day. We work with the paperwork your legal team prefers.

A named engineering lead from the first call through delivery. No handoffs to a "delivery team" you've never met.

You have a problem software can solve.
Let's build it.

20-minute scoping call. No slides, no sales pitch. Bring the problem — we'll tell you whether we're the right team for it, and what it takes to ship.

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