By
Stephanie Hanson
and
on August 19, 2025
Buy vs Build: Skip the Pain, Get the Value
Stephanie, our CEO and cofounder, challenges the old assumption that every institution should build its own data warehouse. Sure, data can be your competitive advantage, but not if all your resources are spent structuring it instead of using it. With Gestalt, your data arrives ready to go—structured, cleaned, organized, secure, and optimized for analytics. You get to insights faster, at a fraction of the cost and time, without the heavy lift. After all, you would not build your own accounting system, so why build your own data warehouse?
Stephanie’s Buy vs Build Highlights:
Provides a fully structured, cleaned, and organized data warehouse out of the box
Optimized for analytics, governance, security, and speed
Costs less than 10% of a custom build and takes just 30% of the time
Frees your team to focus on using the data instead of wrangling it