Independent engineering consultancy
Complex data.
Dependable systems.
Better decisions.
We design and build the data platforms, cloud infrastructure and forecasting tools your business can depend on.
Hands-on engineering. Senior technical judgment.
Seafood & fisheries / Energy / Commodities
Consultancy / from architecture to delivery
The thinking.
And the engineering.
Work directly with a senior engineer who can see the whole system and get into the detail. A focused intervention, a new platform, or technical leadership through delivery.
Data platforms & pipelines
Make fragmented data useful, dependable and ready for the people who need it.
Explore the service 02Cloud architecture & observability
Understand how your systems behave. Improve reliability, performance and cost control.
Explore the service 03Forecasting & decision systems
Turn a promising model into a system whose performance and limitations you can inspect.
Explore the serviceEngineering in practice / FishFacts
The forecast is
only the beginning.
A useful forecasting product needs dependable data, repeatable evaluation and a clear account of what it can—and cannot—tell you.
FishFacts brings that discipline to seafood markets. Its published record spans Peterhead, Shetland, Vigo and Korean research, with a separate scope and baseline for each evaluation.
Explore FishFactsWhat sits behind the model
Traceable inputs
Canonical market data and explicit source provenance.
Reproducible evidence
Frozen evaluation sets, named baselines and recorded release identities.
Visible limits
Published scope, unsuccessful tests and interval coverage audits.
Selected product work
Ideas made tangible.
Energy / research prototype
Strata
Explore well data, find historical analogues and investigate drilling-duration estimates.
Everyday decisions / free UK beta
FillUp
Compare fuel prices with the journey cost included. Public data made useful.
Senior experience. Direct involvement.
A partner who
builds with you.
42Analytics is led by Pete Milne, an engineer and technical leader with more than 25 years building production systems.
From data platforms and cloud architecture to applied forecasting, the work connects engineering depth with an understanding of the business it serves.
Research & field notes
Show the working.
Research · 3 min read
State Variables and Leading Indicators: A Design Question for Retrieval Systems
A correlated feature can still make analogue retrieval worse. How to test whether a signal belongs in the distance measure, a correction layer, or neither.
Read articleResearch · 3 min read
Probabilistic Forecasting in Volatile Commodity Markets
A forecast range is a claim that needs testing. Why baselines, evaluation scope and measured coverage matter in commodity forecasting.
Read articleLet’s build something that lasts
What needs to
work better?
Bring the difficult pipeline, the cloud question, or the idea you want to put into production. Start with a 30-minute conversation with Pete.
Arrange a 30-minute callCruden Bay, Aberdeenshire · Working with teams across the UK and beyond.