How we deliver: from a business outcome to measured value, on one governed architecture.

We start where the operator executive starts — churn, leakage, fraud loss, 5G returns, cost-to-serve — and work back to the decisions, data and agents that move the number. You own everything we build.

Why it matters

Most data and AI programmes stall between the pilot and the P&L. A business-lens method with decision gates keeps every sprint tied to a KPI finance can verify.

Runs in your cloud tenancy or on-prem A decision gate at the end of every phase Code, ontology and agents handed over
A typical engagement Durations indicative
Discover
3–6 wks
Design
2–4 wks
Build
6–10 wks
Adopt
4–8 wks
Run & scale
Ongoing
Discover & value case. We baseline the KPI, size the value and agree the pilot with your sponsor and finance.
DaasLabs pod Your team Ownership moves to you as the pod steps back
Delivery methodology · the business lens

Start from the outcome, not the technology

Every DaasLabs engagement walks the same seven steps, from a number on the executive scorecard to value that finance can verify. Pick an outcome to see a worked telecom example threaded through each step.

How a services engagement runs on it

Five phases, each with a decision gate

The methodology becomes a phase-gated programme. Each phase ends with something you keep and a decision only the operator can take. Durations are indicative for one domain and vary with scope and data readiness.

Worked example
Where engagements usually start

Four situations we are usually called into

The technology rarely fails on its own. Programmes stall where data, meaning, control and people are not designed together.

The situation

BSS, OSS and the warehouse disagree

“Active subscriber”, “revenue” and “site” are defined differently in billing, CRM, OSS and the data warehouse, so every KPI is reconciled by hand.

What changes with DaasLabs

We connect sources once through a data fabric and give them one meaning in a telecom ontology your teams own.

Layers 2 · 3 · 4
The situation

AI pilots don’t reach production

Churn models and GenAI care assistants impress in a demo, then stall on data access, privacy review and the question of who will run them.

What changes with DaasLabs

The pilot is built on the target architecture from day one — gateway, evaluation and release gates included — so it becomes the first production release.

Layers 1 · 10
The situation

Leakage and fraud are found too late

Usage recorded in the network is checked against the bill by sampling, fraud alerts queue for days, and every block or credit is keyed in by a person.

What changes with DaasLabs

Agents reconcile and investigate continuously, then act through typed, limited actions with policy checks and human approval.

Layers 7 · 8 · 12
The situation

Regulators ask for lineage and evidence

Regulators, privacy authorities and auditors want proof of where a reported number came from and who accessed subscriber data.

What changes with DaasLabs

Lineage, policy-as-code and a complete run log make evidence a by-product of daily operations, not a quarterly scramble.

Layers 3 · 9
The target architecture

Twelve capability layers, one blueprint for your operator

The same twelve layers we score in the maturity assessment. Select a layer to see what you get, who leads it, which accelerators run on it and what your team owns at the end.

Our delivery lens: Connect → Curate → Contextualize → Consume. Pick a step to see the layers it builds.

Who consumes Revenue assurance Fraud & security Marketing & care Network operations Finance Regulators Self-care app & web Retail stores Contact centre Partner & wholesale APIs
Your source systems BSS: billing, rating & charging CRM & orders OSS & inventory CDR/xDR & mediation IPDR & network probes Interconnect & roaming eWallet & payments Care & documents
Hover, tap or tab to a layer Governance & Security and AI Lifecycle run across every layer
Connect · What we bring in

Every telecom source, connected once

167+ pre-built connectors, batch and streaming ingestion, change-data capture and legacy adapters — from the network event to the invoice and the customer conversation.

BSS · billing, rating & charging

Rated events, invoices, adjustments, balances and prepaid top-ups — the other side of every revenue reconciliation.

BillingRatingOnline chargingPayments

BSS · CRM, orders & catalogue

Subscribers, accounts, contracts, orders, SIM swaps and the product catalogue that defines what should be billed.

CRMOrder managementProduct catalogueProvisioning

OSS · inventory & assurance

Network and service inventory, fault and performance management, trouble tickets and service-quality KPIs.

InventoryFault / performanceService assuranceTickets

CDR/xDR & mediation

Voice, SMS and data usage records from switches, packet core and mediation — parsed, deduplicated and linked to subscribers.

Voice CDRSMSData xDRMediation

IPDR & network probes

IP detail records, probe and cell-level measurements for usage, experience and anomaly analytics across 4G and 5G.

IPDRProbesCell / site KPIsDevice (IMEI)

Interconnect & roaming

Partner traffic, interconnect settlement and roaming files (TAP/RAP) for wholesale assurance and IRSF detection.

InterconnectTAP / RAPRoaming agreementsSettlement

eWallet & payments

Wallet, top-up and payment-rail events that fraud teams correlate with SIM swaps and account changes.

eWalletTop-upsPayment rails

Care, complaints & documents

Contact-centre interactions, complaints, disputes, care procedures, tariffs and partner agreements for AI to search and cite.

InteractionsDisputesProceduresContracts

ERP, warehouse & legacy

General ledger, existing data warehouses and data lakes, and legacy formats (including COBOL copybooks) brought in through adapters.

GL / ERPEDWData lakeLegacy files

Curate & contextualize · the telecom data model

Pre-built telecom data models give every source one meaning — the objects reports, APIs, accelerators and agents share.

Subscriber & account

MSISDN, IMSI, SIM and device, account hierarchy, segment and lifecycle status.

Product & plan

Tariffs, bundles, add-ons and VAS from the catalogue, with price and rating rules.

Usage event

CDR, xDR and IPDR records normalised to one event shape, linked to subscriber and bill.

Network element

Switches, core and RAN elements with their inventory, faults and performance KPIs.

Site & cell

Sites, cells and geography for coverage, experience, capacity and location analytics.

Partner & case

Interconnect and roaming partners, fraud and leakage cases, disputes and interactions.

Who builds what

Our service lines, one accountable lead per layer

Every layer has a single DaasLabs service line accountable for it, with named support. At handover, every layer is owned by your team. See all services.

Leads Supports Your team owns after handover
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Accelerators & agents on the framework

Seven accelerators, one foundation

Each accelerator is a configurable starting point on the same governed layers, staffed by an agent squad. Because they share the data fabric and ontology, the second one starts faster than the first.

The delivery pod

One cross-functional team around your product owner

A single pod covers strategy to operations, so nothing falls between vendors. It flexes by phase — and your people pair with every role from the first week.

Engagement lead
Owns outcomes and value tracking; runs weekly status and bi-weekly steering with your sponsor.
Solution / data architect
Designs the target state across the twelve layers and how it fits your BSS, OSS and network estate.
Data engineers
Build the landing zone as code, CDR, billing and OSS pipelines and governed data products.
Ontology & governance lead
Agrees business meaning, critical data elements, lineage and privacy policies with your owners.
Your product owner & team
Set priorities and make the decisions. Your engineers, analysts, RA and fraud teams pair with each role and take over at handover.
AI / agent engineers
Configure accelerators; build agents, tools, context and governed actions.
AgentOps / SRE
Evaluation, release gates, monitoring and incident response for models and agents.
Change & enablement lead
Trains your people to use and supervise agents; embeds new ways of working.

How the pod flexes by phase

Bar length shows how much each role is involved. Your team’s share grows until it owns the platform.

RoleDiscoverDesignBuildAdoptRun
Ownership & commercial models

You own what we build — choose how we work with you

Sprint execution, weekly status and bi-weekly steering in every model. Every phase leaves an artefact in your hands.

You own it.

Everything we build lives in your repositories and your cloud tenancy from the first sprint. At handover your team runs it — or keeps DaasLabs on as a managed service.

Infrastructure as codePipelinesOntologyAgents & actionsPoliciesRunbooksEvaluation suites

Engagement models

Choose how DaasLabs works with your teams — and change it as you mature.

Staff augmentation

Architects, data and AI engineers embedded in your teams, under your delivery lead.

Best when you already run the programme and need specialist capacity.

Project delivery

Outcome-based delivery of an accelerator or platform build by a DaasLabs pod, with phase gates.

Best for a pilot or a new layer of the target architecture.

Managed services

We run and improve the platform, models and agents — DataOps, MLOps and AgentOps under agreed SLAs.

Best after handover, while your team builds its own run capability.
Typical start
An accelerator pilot on one outcome

One outcome, one accelerator and its agent squad on your real data, in your tenancy — first release typically in 30–45 days.

Then
Scale across the operator

More domains and layers on the same foundation, with autonomy raised on evidence and your team taking the lead.

Follow one case

A SIM-swap takeover, through the architecture

A SIM is swapped, and minutes later the new SIM receives one-time passwords and the linked wallet logs in from a new device. Here is how the layers — and the people — handle it, from source to audit trail.

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Runs the OODA fraud agents on demo cases in SENTINEL.
  1. 1

    The signals appear in your source systems

    Provisioning records a SIM swap; the SMS centre delivers a burst of OTPs; the wallet sees a login from an unknown device.

    Source systems
  2. 2

    The data fabric lands the events

    Streaming ingestion brings the swap, the SMS records and the wallet events in within seconds, quality-checked, as governed data products.

  3. 3

    Metadata and ontology give it meaning

    The events resolve to the same subscriber, MSISDN, SIM, device and wallet account, with lineage back to each source.

  4. 4

    Context is assembled

    Past swaps, device history, recent complaints and the account-takeover playbook are pulled together — only what this analyst is entitled to see.

  5. 5

    The Observe and Orient agents work the case

    They score the risk, classify the pattern as account takeover and propose a wallet freeze and a verification callback, with evidence and a confidence score.

  6. 6

    Policy checks the proposal

    Kill switch, autonomy level, risk tier and exposure limits decide: straight through, or to a person.

  7. 7

    A fraud analyst approves Human

    The analyst reviews the evidence on one screen in the fraud command centre and approves, edits or rejects the proposal.

  8. 8

    The action is written back

    A governed, typed action freezes the wallet for a cooling period and opens a callback task — limited, idempotent and reversible.

  9. 9

    Everything is logged for audit

    Each step, tool call and decision is recorded; outcomes feed the evaluation that decides whether autonomy can be raised.

Runs where your data lives

Deployed in your estate, on your terms

The framework is cloud-agnostic. We deploy it where your data and your controls already are.

Your tenancy or on-prem

Deployed in the operator’s own cloud subscription or data centre — never a shared DaasLabs environment.

Cloud-agnostic

Azure, AWS or GCP, and hybrid with on-prem connectivity for network and BSS systems that stay put.

Data residency

Subscriber data and model calls stay in the regions your regulator and privacy rules require; the AI gateway enforces it.

Infrastructure as code

Every environment is code or configuration (Terraform), tested automatically and reproducible from dev to prod.

Security & identity

Integrates with your identity provider, key management, network controls and access reviews.

Reference credential

Unified data platform for a tier-1 Asian telco group on Azure, delivered as infrastructure as code.

The Data Fabric deployed with Terraform as reusable infrastructure as code; the same landing-zone patterns carry over to any major cloud. Read the credential.

DevTestPre-prodProd
  • Landing zone with separate subscriptions per environment and on-prem connectivity for hybrid integration
  • Centralised data repository with dedicated compute for each business unit
  • Everything as code or configuration — consistent, reusable, reviewable
  • Automated tests for every provisioning change; designed to be portable to other clouds
Landing zone

Six pillars of the cloud foundation

  • Management & governance
  • Networking & security
  • Identity & access
  • Logging & monitoring
  • IaaS & PaaS services
  • Applications & workloads
Business-unit architecture

Shared storage, dedicated compute

Centralised data repository
Business unit 1
compute
Business unit 2
compute
Business unit 3
compute

A packaged data workspace bundles storage, compute, ETL/ELT, security, monitoring and access control, so a new business unit is onboarded without new plumbing.

StorageComputeETL / ELTSecurityMonitoringAccess control
IaC design principles

Built to be repeated

  • Package business capabilities as data workspaces
  • Metadata and config driven — everything as code or config
  • A framework for consistency, reuse and readability
  • Dependency injection across cloud layers and teams
  • Test-driven: local and automated tests for every provisioning change
  • Cloud-agnostic: not limited to one cloud
AI
AI Analyst

I'm the DaasLabs AI Analyst for the telecom demo platform. I can help with:

  • Revenue assurance & CDR reconciliation
  • Fraud: SIM swap, SIM box, IRSF and Wangiri
  • Churn, customer and network analytics
  • Executive briefings across the accelerators

Answers are generated from the demo data.