Strategic Data Products builds custom AI applications for Chicago small businesses — designed from the ground up around how your business actually works.
Trusted by Chicago businesses you already know.
You can't tell which technology will actually drive growth — and which will quietly drain cash.
The systems you've already bought weren't built to scale with the business you're becoming.
Most agencies bring you their stack. Few build around the way your business actually needs to grow.
That's the work we do.
“I'm Robert Dawson. I grew up around small businesses on the South Side and spent 20 years building data systems for places like Oracle and Invesco — supporting $50 billion in daily trading. Now I bring that same rigor to the shops in my own neighborhood. One owner at a time.”
— Robert Dawson, Founder
Two ways to work together. Both built around what your business actually needs.
A website that sells, takes orders, and runs your operations.
Modern e-commerce or a custom web platform, integrated with your point of sale and back-of-house tools. Designed around how your customers actually buy and how your team actually works.
Open a B2B revenue line your competition doesn't have.
A productized gifting platform on top of your existing storefront. Companies order in bulk, you fulfill, we handle the tech.
Real Chicago businesses. Real numbers. Real systems running today.
Brown Sugar Bakery
A beloved South Side bakery with national press, but a website and operations stack that couldn't keep up with demand.
A unified Shopify storefront with same-day pickup tied to Clover POS, nationwide shipping built around a 6"/8"/10" cake size strategy, a Birthday Club CRM, and back-of-house tools for production planning and delivery routing.
59% year-over-year revenue growth and a digital operation Stephanie's team actually wants to use.
“Robert built the system we needed, not the one a stranger would have sold us.”
Stephanie Hart, Owner — Brown Sugar Bakery
A modern editorial storefront for Maya-Camille Broussard's award-winning brand, built to scale.
Read moreA Next.js ordering platform unifying online orders across all 10 locations, with AI-assisted menu and customer flows.
Read moreA custom B2B order system built around how Dominique Leach's team actually runs events.
Read moreOur case studies happen to be food businesses — that's where the proof lives. The systems we build work for any Chicago small business with a storefront, customers, and operations to run.
Strategic Data Products is built on a simple idea: the small businesses that make Chicago what it is deserve the same quality of technology that the biggest companies in the world get. I've spent my career building those big systems. Now I build them for the shops on my block.
A 30-minute call. We'll talk about your business, what's slowing it down, and whether we should work together. No pitch. No pressure.
