Ascent Data Insights

About Us

Empowering Businesses with Smarter Data Solutions

We’re Parker and Aaron – two data scientists who’ve spent years turning complex data challenges into real business value. With over a decade of combined experience with a Fortune 25 company, we’ve seen firsthand how data can transform entire organizations. Now, we’re bringing that expertise directly to companies ready to unlock the power of their data.

Parker Kain

parker@ascentdi.com

Co-Founder

Parker is a cloud and machine learning expert with a passion for building the foundations and tools to get the most out of modern AI. As a Lead Cloud Engineer, he was instrumental in deploying a private AI Gateway for all large language model and AI model usage across a Fortune 25 company. Enabling users to access the power of modern AI through a secure internal portal. He specializes in architecting and implementing resilient systems using modern tools like Kubernetes, and Terraform, to deploy cloud solutions through Microsoft and Google. Parker’s work ensures that data infrastructure is not just powerful, but also highly stable and secure. He holds Bachelor’s degrees in both Data Science and Statistics from Northern Kentucky University.

Aaron Robeson

aaron@ascentdi.com

Co-Founder

Aaron is an energetic data science leader with a focus on understanding complex business challenges, and crafting data-driven solutions that solve them. He has a proven track record of leading projects from start to finish, including a recent optimization project that delivered a $160M sales lift while simultaneously cutting $36M in costs. Aaron excels in aligning business constraints with mathematical optimization to drive better decision making. An effective collaborator and communicator, he holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University.

From Strategy to Execution

Full-Stack Collaborators

What sets us apart is our ability to bridge the gap between business strategy and technical execution. We’ve sat in boardrooms presenting to executives and spent late nights debugging production systems. We understand that the best technical solution means nothing if it doesn’t solve real business problems.

Our Approach

Transparent & Direct

We believe great data science starts with great questions, not fancy algorithms. Our process begins by understanding your business challenges, then crafting technical solutions that are both powerful and practical. We’ve learned that sustainable success comes from building systems that your team can understand, maintain, and evolve.

Whether you need to modernize legacy systems, implement AI capabilities, or unlock insights from your data, we bring both the technical depth and business acumen to get it done right.

Beyond the Code

Always Growing

When we’re not transforming data into business value, you may find us out rock climbing, presenting at conferences like the University of Cincinnati Analytics Conference, or playing chess. We’re both passionate about continuous learning and sharing knowledge – skills that translate directly into our work.

We’re not just consultants; we’re partners in your data journey. Ready to see what your data can really do?