Recent Success Stories

The Company contracted Cuesta to provide a North Star Strategy required to make informed tactical decisions on how best to architect their underlying data and technology structure the supporting teams across different business units

Our client is a private-equity-backed science and laboratory device supplier. The Company had siloed data sources and long lead times to deliver IT initiatives that impacted a newly formed analytics center.

Cuesta supported a Private Equity Partner throughout the entire deal cycle of a medical equipment retailer—from data strategy and execution through sell-side diligence—including building a transformative data foundation during the hold period, resulting in a 3x return on investment.

Cuesta Partners worked with a Private Equity–owned industrial manufacturer of emergency power systems to accelerate value creation ahead of a potential exit. In four weeks, the team identified high-impact AI opportunities, spotted a need for a foundational data platform, and developed a six-month execution roadmap.

Cuesta partnered with a rapidly growingdistributor managing 30k monthly transactions onrazor-thin margins but lacking visibility into deal-level profitability. We built a modern AI and data foundation to quantify margins and proactively manage sales. Today, the company has automated decision-making across Finance, Sales, Logistics, and Supply, integrated data model across all areas , reduced negative transactions…

Cuesta partnered with a market-leading pharmaservices company to build a flexible and powerfulfinance analytics solution. The solution enabled agranular view of profitability across all businessunits, supported by a scalable data platform. Theresults: near-real-time profitability insights, elimination of manual reporting constraints, and a detailed, high-confidence view of EBITDA

Client\'s Finance and Sales teams relied on manual, weekly retroactive reporting with limited visibility into customer and transaction-level margin performance. Cuesta collaborated to design and deliver a transaction-level Margin Analytics dashboard that enables automated revenue and cost comparison and faster identification of low and negative margin transactions, supporting targeted profitability improvements up to $1M annually.

Operating across 10+ Business Units without a centralized MDM function, the Client faced significant customer data duplication and fragmented reporting. Cuesta established an MDM foundation from the ground up, preventing most future duplicates, reducing CRM account volume, and introducing governance structures that enabled clean data, repeatable processes, and a clear path to in-house ownership

Union labor planning at a major port relied on manual staffing methods, resulting in frequent over- and under-staffing. Cuesta introduced a data-driven Resource Demand Analytics solution using predictive models to forecast inbound volumes, targeting a reduction of 2 third-party hourly workers per week, or approximately $10K in monthly savings