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

Hi, I'm Ruben Ugarte.

According to my clients, I am a "data guru" or "data whiz."

But if you ask me, I'd tell you that I help companies get significantly more insights from their data.

Not just random tidbits either but the kind of insights that will move the needle in your retention, engagement, marketing performance or business.

There's no point in having mountains of data that no one uses. I can help you go from overwhelmed to calm and confident when it comes to your data.

I bet you're thinking, "Why should I listen to this young-looking guy out of Canada?"

10 years in the industry, 90 clients, 2 books

Every client had a unique data challenge but all organizations were trying to answer one central question.

How can we extract more insights from our data and technology?

Each of them wanted their people to easily create their own reports and go mining for insights.

Or to know exactly where to focus to drive product growth.

Or to feel confident when making the big decisions.

Many clients felt tired and frustrated that they didn't have good visibility into their efforts. How can a company full of smart and technical people not be able to answer seemingly straightforward questions?

That's where 10 years of best practices comes in. I have seen every situation (often multiple times) and I can accelerate your progress towards data superhero.

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

I ran my own startup before I started helping companies with their data. We never had great data at my startup and it always bugged me. We ended up making poor decisions that could have been avoided with better insights.

Imagine having a single place where you can see the health of your business or product, you can see how things are changing over time and you can see where you should focus your limited energy and resources.

Then expand that to everyone in your team and you can see how powerful having the right data can be.

Instead of blindly walking towards a goal, you can do it with a GPS designed specifically for your organization.

However, don't just take my word. Listen to my actual clients, both in written form and videos.

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 data.

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 more insights.

Awesome, here's what you can do next.

I help companies on through a simple, no-commitment monthly service. On any given month, we can work through your data challenges including designing a data stack, implementing new tools, building reports/dashboards, analyzing data and much more.

You can learn more about my monthly service here.

If the monthly service is not a good fit, I would recommend you checkout my Youtube channel where I post weekly videos 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. Every week he volunteers as "pet therapy." I'm not sure who loves it more, him or the people he visits.