---
title: "Metacenta — a technical review of your data platform"
description: "A fixed-price technical review of your dbt project and repository metadata. We report what is failing, undocumented or unowned, without connecting to your warehouse."
url: "https://metacenta.com/"
updated: "2026-10-31"
tokens: 753
---

# Know what's wrong with your data platform, and what to fix first

A fixed-price review of your dbt project and repository. Every finding names the file, the evidence and the owner.

## Most reviews start with one of these.

- **You've inherited a data platform**: Find out what's fragile before it breaks, ranked from the models your dashboards read.
- **You've been asked to sign off work**: A summary for non-specialists, with the evidence underneath for the team.
- **You're about to put AI on your data**: See where it would go wrong first, with a level from 0 to 4 for enablement, use, governance and security.

## Three steps, usually within a week.

- **Send what you already have**: Your dbt `manifest.json` is enough to start. Add query history and your rates, and we also price each model and dashboard.
- **We run the checks, a person reads them**: Every model, source and test, not a sample. Each check is a written rule, not an LLM's opinion.
- **You get the plan and a walkthrough**: A report with the verdict, a worklist for your backlog and a private portal, then we take your team through it.

## Fixed prices, no sales call.

- **Technical Review**: £2,000. One dbt project and its repository: every finding read by a person, the report, the worklist and a walkthrough. No subscription.
- **Startup Review**: £950. One smaller dbt project and a small team, or none.
- **Reassessment**: £500. After a review and your changes, we confirm what's fixed and flag anything new.
- **Migration Assurance**: £3,500. We compare the estate before and after a move. [How it works](https://metacenta.com/migration?src=landing).

Got a larger estate? We'll agree the scope and the price with you before any work starts. [Every price](https://metacenta.com/pricing).

## What can't you see?

We never read a row of your data. From `catalog.json` we use only the warehouse's own statistics about each relation. We can't see how jobs ran or which dashboards people open unless you send that history. And the fixes are yours: we write the report and the worklist. [Everything we read and can't see](https://metacenta.com/security#limitations).

## Frequently asked questions

### We already run dbt_project_evaluator. What does this add?

Mostly execution and ownership. `dbt_project_evaluator` checks what the project declares. We also read what the last build did, who each asset routes to, and how the repository is looked after. If your models are already tested, documented and owned, say so when you get in touch and we'll tell you honestly whether a review is worth it.

[Request a review](https://metacenta.com/enquire?src=landing&via=md)

## Related pages

- [Security](https://metacenta.com/security)
- [Pricing](https://metacenta.com/pricing)
- [How we assess](https://metacenta.com/standard)
- [Every rule we check](https://metacenta.com/rules)
- [Privacy note](https://metacenta.com/privacy)
- [Terms of engagement](https://metacenta.com/terms)
- [Client sign-in](https://metacenta.com/auth)