Unico Connect

Hire Data Scientists Who Turn Your Data into Decisions

Our data scientists build predictive models, analytics pipelines, and data-driven systems that generate measurable business value. Not dashboards that nobody checks, but actionable insights integrated into your workflows.

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Data Science, Accelerated with AI

AI Assisted Feature Engineering

AI helps explore your raw data and suggest transformations, derived features and encoding strategies, which your data scientist then tests against model performance.

Automated Model Selection

AI helps benchmark several model types against your data, narrowing down the algorithm and hyperparameters that suit your prediction task.

Data Quality Monitoring

AI assisted monitoring watches incoming data for drift, outliers and quality issues that degrade model accuracy, and raises alerts before predictions become unreliable.

Rapid Experimentation

AI helps with experiment tracking, notebook management and pipeline orchestration, so hypotheses get tested and validated sooner.

The whole Unico Connect team uses Claude Code daily. Our engineering leads estimate that roughly 80 percent of our production code is AI generated. Engineers are expected to understand the code AI produces, and a tech lead or senior developer reviews it before it ships.

What Our Data Science Developers Build

Predictive Analytics

Forecasting models for revenue, demand, churn, and operational metrics. Time series analysis with confidence intervals and scenario modeling.

Machine Learning Models

Classification, regression, clustering, and recommendation systems trained on your business data. From customer segmentation to fraud detection.

Data Pipeline Engineering

ETL pipelines that extract data from multiple sources, transform it for analysis, and load it into data warehouses. Scheduled, monitored, and fault-tolerant.

Business Intelligence & Dashboards

Interactive dashboards in Tableau, Power BI, or custom tools that surface the metrics that matter. Connected to live data sources with automated refresh.

NLP & Text Analytics

Sentiment analysis, topic modeling, document classification, and entity extraction from customer reviews, support tickets, and social media data.

A/B Testing & Experimentation

Statistical experiment design, sample size calculation, and rigorous analysis for product decisions. Bayesian and frequentist approaches based on your needs.

VETTING PIPELINE

How engineers earn a spot on our team

Our hiring process has three stages, from the application screen to a project deep dive with background verification, and every new engineer then serves a probation period.

4 checks
Application screen

We source engineers across India through LinkedIn, Wellfound, employee referrals and outbound headhunting. Every application is checked for stack relevance, years of experience, English and time zone overlap before it moves to a technical interview.

60 to 90 min
Live coding and scenario questions

A live coding round of 60 to 90 minutes in the primary technology of the candidate, followed by scenario based questions on practical applications of that technology.

3 checks
Project deep dive and background verification

Candidates walk us through a recent production project, covering the architecture decisions and what they would change in hindsight. A third party background verification agency then confirms prior employment, education and identity.

Probation
A probation period follows

New engineers then serve a probation period, and those who do not meet our bar do not continue with us.

How It Works

From the first call to a developer working in your team, you choose who joins and when.

Share your requirements

Tell us the experience level, tech stack, project scope and team setup you need. A 30 minute call is usually enough.

Review shortlisted profiles

Vetted candidates are presented within a week, matched to the brief you shared.

Interview your picks

Interview shortlisted developers directly, through technical interviews, pair programming or whatever your process requires.

Onboard and start

Your developer joins your tools and standups, and onboarding completes in 7 to 14 business days.

Engagement Models

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Dedicated Developer

A data scientist works exclusively on your project, integrated with the tools and workflows your team already uses.

Best for Ongoing modeling, experimentation, and analytics ownership
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Managed Team

We assemble and manage a data science team with a tech lead, handling delivery end to end against your requirements.

Best for Building data and ML pipelines end to end with a lead
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Project Based

Fixed scope, timeline, and budget. We deliver the project and hand off the codebase with documentation.

Best for Forecasting models, analytics builds, ML proofs of concept
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Engagement terms

  • Vetted candidates are presented within a week, and onboarding completes in 7 to 14 business days.
  • Your developer works as an extension of your team, directly in your channels.
  • For international clients, the assigned team aims for at least 4 hours of overlap with your business day, and our night shift team can cover your business hours for support.
  • Our replacement guarantee gives you a replacement vetted developer at no extra fee if the placed developer is not the right fit or underperforms.
  • We offer fixed scope for proofs of concept and MVPs, then move to a retainer for ongoing work, so the engagement can scale with you.
  • Retainers run for at least 3 months, then continue month to month with 30 days notice.
  • AI and ML roles run $30 to $60 an hour depending on seniority, and fixed scope projects have a $10,000 minimum.
  • We invoice in USD, euros or INR.
  • We sign a mutual NDA before discovery starts, and IP assignment and all other contract terms are set out in the MSA and SOW you sign when the engagement begins.

PRICING

Transparent data scientist rates, published

$30 to $60 per hour

Dedicated data scientists, by seniority

$10,000 minimum

Fixed scope projects

US specialists typically bill $150 to $300 per hour for comparable scope. Every engagement is scoped individually before any number becomes a quote.

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Our Work

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Education🇺🇸 USA

Built a unified AI learning platform for a California charter school serving 15,000+ students

Built Brain AI, a retrieval augmented knowledge base that surfaces content and recommendations based on student progress
Integrated two way translation held to a 97 percent accuracy bar across student, teacher and parent surfaces
Added real time progress tracking and automated grading, with role based access enforced at the API layer
Created separate app surfaces for students, teachers and administrators, with operational reporting for administrators

15,000+

Students served

97%

Translation accuracy

50%

Faster content turnaround

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Highlands Talkative Assist two way translation between English and Spanish on mobile
Highlands English Master screens showing original, corrected and translated text
Highlands learning report creation with course evidence upload and grades
Highlands learning report list with master agreement status for each student
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E-Commerce / SaaS🇮🇳 India

Deployed demand forecasting and pricing models that reduced stockouts by 30% across marketplaces

Aggregated product, sales and inventory data from Amazon, Shopify and other marketplace APIs into one normalized model
Built demand forecasting with time series analysis and seasonal decomposition, giving restock recommendations with confidence ranges
Developed dynamic pricing optimization that recommends price points from competitor pricing, margin targets and demand elasticity, advisory rather than autonomous
Added anomaly detection for revenue reconciliation, plus QueryAI, a conversational bot that answers plain English questions with the supporting numbers

-30%

Stockouts across brands

+25%

Pricing accuracy

50%

Faster data to insight pipeline

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EComm Pulse sales and units dashboard across Amazon, Flipkart and Shopify
EComm Pulse chart comparing competitor and brand customers by price range
EComm Pulse refund insights table by report date, type and seller

Your Data, Working for Your Business

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Frequently Asked Questions

AI and ML roles run $30 to $60 an hour depending on seniority, and fixed scope projects have a $10,000 minimum. Cloud compute, data warehouse usage and BI tool subscriptions, such as Tableau or Power BI, are billed separately from our rates. Effort also depends on how ready your data is, since scattered or inconsistent sources need pipeline and cleaning work before a model can be trained on them.

Data & Analytics Insights

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