Fast Data Science
London, United Kingdom
About
Fast Data Science is a London natural-language and machine-learning consultancy building text-analysis and predictive models for health, pharma and research clients, with an AI due-diligence practice.
Who They Work With
Pharma, research and public-sector buyers with an NLP problem on unstructured documents that has to survive review.
Based on 8 client engagements with a source URL · researched 7 Sept 2026
Our Take
The Clinical Trial Risk Tool is the strongest evidence a shop this size can offer: commissioned by the Gates Foundation, built over more than a year as an ensemble of machine-learning and rule-based models that extract sample size, phase, effect size and statistical-analysis-plan presence from protocols running to 200 pages, deployed publicly, open-sourced under MIT, and written up in Gates Open Research with a DOI.
The consulting record is public-sector and pharma—the Information Commissioner's Office email classifier trained inside an isolated environment on data that could not be retained, Boehringer Ingelheim's factory error-report clustering, Skills Development Scotland's causal analysis using DoWhy and instrumental variables, plus the WHO and the Office of Rail and Road.
What the cases do not carry is outcome numbers: the Skills Development Scotland write-up concludes that interventions appeared to be well-targeted, which is a research finding rather than a delivered result.
At €175-260 an hour this is the most expensive listing in London, so the question is what a named principal's time buys that a larger team's does not.
Key strengths
- The Clinical Trial Risk Tool is peer-reviewed (Gates Open Res 2023, doi:10.12688/gatesopenres.14416.1), publicly deployed and MIT-licensed
- Sensitive-data constraints are handled explicitly—the ICO model was trained inside an isolated environment with no training data retained
- The client list is institutional and verifiable: Gates Foundation, WHO, NHS, ICO, Boehringer Ingelheim, Wellcome Trust
Good to know
- No case study publishes an outcome number—ask what changed for the client after delivery
- At €175-260/hr against a 2-9 headcount, ask who does the work and what happens when they are unavailable
- The published strength is NLP and research-grade analysis—ask for evidence before commissioning a production platform
Reviewed by Gabor Kiss
Founder & Curator, AIAgencies.eu · 7 Sept 2026
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Notable Clients
Every engagement documented in a published case study
Documented engagements: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Boehringer Ingelheim, Information Commissioner's Office, Skills Development Scotland, Office of Rail and Road, Tarion, Wellcome Trust, and World Health Organization. All 8 carry a source URL on file.
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