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So you're looking for MarTech help but you have no idea who I am...

Hi, I'm Ruben Ugarte.

My clients call me a “data guru” or “data whiz.” But if you ask me, I’d say I help companies turn their data into actionable insights that drive results.

Not just any insights—I'm talking about the kind that move the needle on retention, engagement, marketing performance, and overall business growth.

Because let’s face it: there’s no point in having mountains of data if no one uses it. I’ll help you transform that overwhelm into clarity, turning your MarTech stack into a tool you trust and rely on.

You might be wondering, “Why should I listen to this young-looking guy from Canada?” Here’s why: I’ve spent years helping companies like yours untangle their data challenges, design smarter MarTech stacks, and achieve measurable outcomes.

If you're ready to stop drowning in data and start seeing results, let’s talk.

10 years in the industry, 90 clients, 2 books

Every client I’ve worked with faced unique challenges within their MarTech stack, but they all shared one central question: How can we extract more insights from our marketing technology and data?

Some wanted their teams to easily generate reports and dig for insights on their own. Others needed a clear understanding of where to focus their efforts to drive product growth. Many just wanted to feel confident when making decisions that impact their marketing strategy.

Time and time again, I’ve seen marketing teams overwhelmed by the complexity of their MarTech stacks. Despite having the right tools, they struggled to get the visibility they needed. How can a company with skilled, technical teams not get actionable answers from their data?

That’s where my expertise comes in. With over 10 years of experience in optimizing MarTech stacks, I know exactly how to untangle the complexity.

I’ll guide your team to leverage the full potential of your marketing technology, turning frustration into confidence and helping you accelerate your path to success.

What's my specialty? Making technology accessible to everyone.

Before I began helping companies optimize their MarTech stacks, I ran my own startup. And one thing that always bothered me was our lack of solid data. Without the right insights, we made decisions that could have been avoided—decisions that hurt our growth.

Now, imagine having a single, unified view where you can track the health of your business or product in real time. A place where you can see how things are evolving, and where your team can easily identify where to focus your limited resources for maximum impact.

That’s the power of a well-optimized MarTech stack. It’s not about blindly chasing goals; it’s about having a GPS tailored to your unique business needs.

But don’t just take my word for it. Hear directly from my clients—through written testimonials and video case studies—about how we’ve transformed their marketing technology and helped them make smarter, more data-driven decisions.

What my clients are saying about me

A preview of how it feels and looks when your organization generates more insights and become confident about your MarTech stack.

Plus 18 more testimonials in written format...

We had tried to implement Mixpanel but struggled to get any useful insights out of the tool. Our team didn’t have much analytics experience. The practico team was able to help us create a tracking plan for Mixpanel and Segment.com which helped us track our users across our web and mobile apps. It also helped our development team property implement this plan.

Paul Greenberg

Paul

Founder & CEO

Ruben helped us set up the right foundation for our Mixpanel data by working with us on creating a tracking plan and guiding our development team through our Mixpanel implementation. This has made it easier for us to start digging into our data to find answers to questions like “what are the critical actions or attributes that lead our free users to upgrade to a paid tier

John

John

Founder & CEO

Ruben helped us design an analytics strategy for our company that could help us accomplish our short term goals while laying a solid foundation for the future. Internally, we understood deeply how to make our product better but we lacked expertise around analytics and how to properly implement tools like Segment.com and Mixpanel.

Gaston B.

Gaston

Head of Growth

Ruben helped our engineering team stay focus on the thing we do very well: building a great product. They provided guidance on the best tools that would work for us over the long term and helped us understand the technical implications of tools like Segment.com. The Practico team gave me the confidence that we were implementing data in the best way possible and we weren't going to shoot ourselves in the foot in the long run.

John Rush

John

CTO

Ruben has helped us lay the proper analytics foundation for different projects by guiding us on the best practices of implementing tools like Segment, Mixpanel and Google Analytics. This foundation ensures that we are tracking the right metrics and are able to access the data that we need to make marketing and product decisions.

Richard

Richard

Marketing Director

Ruben helped our team get our data in order in GTM and GA. There were two tools that we had implemented internally but weren’t able to get much value out of them. Practico was able to help us understand how to accurately track data and how to get actionable insights.

Matt

Matt

Marketing Director

Ruben helped our engineering team stay focus on the thing we do very well: building a great product. They provided guidance on the best tools that would work for us over the long term and helped us understand the technical implications of tools like Segment.com. Ruben gave me the confidence that we were implementing data in the best way possible and we weren't going to shoot ourselves in the foot in the long run.

AJ

AJ

Founder

Ruben helped us understand how our app (Insights) was performing and how this would affect our redesign efforts. After launching our v2, we were able to see exactly how our users were adopting our new product and the impact of our redesign instead of assuming that something worked or didn't worked. He also served as trusted advisor for our company and always responded quickly to requests or questions.

Saisai

Product

Working with Ruben from Practico has been crucial to our business. He started by helping us audit our Google Analytics setup and found critical setup issues that affected our reporting. He then worked with us to sort through our data and helped us create our core reports while avoiding the sampling issue in Google Analytics. Having him as an expert resource made it easier for our team to understand exactly what our users were doing and how we could present this information to our stakeholders.

Chelsea

Marketing Manager

We had an absolute abundance of data available to us through and we didn't know what to do with it and we didn't know how to turn it from a lot of data into something really useful and tangible for us to learn as a business, but also for our customers to learn. Ruben helped us create dashboards for our own business insights but also for our vendors and our users. I'm sure we'll work with you again in the future.

Orrin

Orrin

CTO

Ruben is quite simply a Mixpanel Guru and Analytics wiz. Extremely professional, very knowledgeable, and just amazingly helpful guy who will ensure you get your Mixpanel and Segment (or any other tool) tracking configured the right way, as trust me, it's so easy to make mistakes and put your data in a bad format.

Simon

Growth Manager

Ruben answered not only all of my questions, but helped me identify blind spots with my current setup (unknown unknowns). He helped me create an action plan on how to best move forward with our implementation, to get the best return on our time.I'm extremely happy with the results.

David

Founder

Ruben always delivered at least as much as expected, but almost always more than expected. I'm not a founder here, but I've been a serial founder my whole life, and those people who do that are the ones you like to surround yourself with. So that's where the success comes from. So it's been a great help and a blessing, I'd say, to have you around.

Blair Ryan

VP Digital Operations

Before we got hooked up with Ruben, we had several questions that we were trying to figure out and didn't have complete confidence in the decisions we were making. We need an expert and Ruben was a fantastic partner. We achieved all of what we outlined in the project, and we're very happy with the results.

Hunter Hillegas

CTO

Ruben was essential for our implementation of a fully functioning analytics program within our company. Without our own in-house data expert, we could not have set up our analytics program without Practico. They started by helping us to analyze all the metrics we were currently tracking across the company, and what data we wished we were tracking. They then helped us to drill down and determine which metrics were essential for the stage of growth we were at. Finally, they helped us to design an automated system for tracking the data from all the disparate sources that our B to C company was dealing with. I cannot recommend them more highly.

Chris Boas

Founder

Immediately we saw this significant buy-in from the organization and just consistent usage of the reports we were building. Our clients are happy with the type of insights and answers they're getting from their data.

Hiba Ganta

Product

Before working with Ruben, we had some data in our admin panel but did not have all the KPIs we wanted and needed. No dashboards, no KPIs, a little bit of Mixpanel, and just our numbers.

Ruben helped us with the planning, strategy, and implementation of our data tools and dashboard. We selected all the tools in a modern data stack and worked on getting everything connected.

We have a much clearer picture of how our product is doing out in the market. So some of the numbers are just more of a confirmation of our feeling, but there are a lot of figures and then KPIs, which are more of a surprise that we didn't know.

Radan Dabetic

Product

Ruben helped us understand the weaknesses in how our team was making decisions using data and prepared a strategy that would allow us to solve these challenges and level up your decision-making capabilities. I would highly recommend Ruben to any company that needs an outside perspective on how to solve critical issues like hiring the right people and selecting the right technology.

Sam Magnant

Finance & Strategy

Ok Ruben, I'm ready for a better MarTech stack.

Awesome, here's what you can do next.

I help companies optimize their MarTech stacks through bespoke engagements. We can tackle your data and technology challenges, including designing a custom MarTech stack, implementing new tools, building reports and dashboards, analyzing data, and much more.

You can learn more about my MarTech Stack Service here.

If the monthly service is not a good fit, I would recommend you checkout my Youtube channel where I post weekly videos on optimizing marketing technology or my first commercially published book, The Data Mirage: Why Companies Fail to Actually Use Their Data.

Welcome to my internet home!

Ruben Ugarte

P.S. That’s Remy, my 3-year-old Golden Retriever. He volunteers as "pet therapy" every week, and honestly, I’m not sure who loves it more—him or the people he visits.