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SnowStar TM - Accelerate More with Snowflake

A powerful family of production-ready accelerators from TechStar's Snowflake Center of Excellence—designed to help you optimize, modernize, govern, and innovate faster.

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SnowStar TM introduction to TechStar’s Snowflake Accelerators

Built to Accelerate. Designed to Deliver.

Snowflake initiatives can lose momentum when specialized skills, governance, and cost management are spread across multiple teams and vendors. SnowStar brings proven expertise and reusable innovation together to help organizations move from idea to production faster.

Built by TechStar's Snowflake Center of Excellence, our accelerators combine certified expertise, Snowflake-native architecture, and proven delivery patterns to solve real-world data and AI challenges.

What Our Accelerators Help You Achieve

1.

Platform Modernization & Migration

Move legacy data environments to Snowflake with streamlined modernization and AI-assisted conversion.

2.

Data Engineering & Architecture

Build stronger pipelines, integrations, semantic layers, data contracts, and modern data architectures.

3.

Cortex AI & Agents

Turn Snowflake data into intelligent experiences with production-ready AI agents and analytics.

4.

FinOps & Cost Governance

Gain greater visibility and control over Snowflake consumption, performance, and costs.

5.

Managed Services & Enablement

Keep your environment optimized while strengthening your team's Snowflake capabilities.

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Five accelerators. Three areas of excellence.

SnowStar brings together accelerators across AI excellence, platform excellence, and vertical expertise—helping organizations solve high-impact challenges faster.

1.

AI Excellence | FinOps & Cost Intelligence

See your Snowflake environment differently. Ask questions in plain English and uncover actionable insights into cost and performance.

Key Focus:

Cost optimization • Performance intelligence • Conversational FinOps

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2.

Platform Excellence | Migration & Modernization

Bring the migration lifecycle together under one engine—from assessment and conversion to migration, validation, and reporting.

Key Focus:

Database migration • Code conversion • Validation

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3.

Platform Excellence | Data Quality & Governance

Turn data contracts into enforceable controls that validate quality before issues reach production.

Key Focus:

Data contracts • Automated checks • CI/CD governance

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4.

Platform Excellence | Salesforce Intelligence

Go beyond current-state CRM data. Preserve historical changes, rebuild past pipeline views, and bring AI-driven intelligence back to your teams.

Key Focus:

Historical intelligence • Pipeline analysis • AI insights

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5.

Vertical Expertise | Mortgage Intelligence

Identify higher-risk applications earlier with predictive modeling and explainable AI built for mortgage data.

Key Focus:

Risk prediction • ML models • Explainable AI

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Built to Solve Real Snowflake Challenges

FinOps & Cost Intelligence: Conversational Intelligence for Snowflake Costs

See Everything. Optimize Anything.

Teams can spend hours every week writing ACCOUNT_USAGE queries and maintaining dashboards just to understand Snowflake costs.

SnowStar Vantage changes that with a Cortex Agent that answers cost and performance questions in plain English. It provides recommendations while keeping you in control—the agent advises on SQL without executing it.

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How It Works

ACCOUNT_USAGE →

Bring in Snowflake metadata.

Semantic Views →

Create consistent business measures.

Cortex Agents →

Analyze questions using specialized tools.

Snowsight →

Deliver clear, actionable answers.

Why It Matters

  • 10–25% potential reduction in Snowflake compute costs
  • 4–10 hours of manual analysis reclaimed each week
  • 40+ verified query patterns available

How It Works

Configure →

Set migration parameters.

Extract DDL →

Capture source structures.

Convert →

Transform code and objects.

Migrate →

Move workloads forward.

Validate →

Check accuracy and consistency.

Report →

Review results and outcomes.

Why It Matters

  • 34+ validated PostgreSQL-to-Snowflake type mappings
  • 15 automated validation checks
  • 0 external dependencies

Automated compile checks, sandbox runs, retries, and row-level mismatch reporting help strengthen every migration.

Migration & Modernization: One Engine. One Migration Journey.

Bring Every Stage of Migration Together.

SnowStar Marshal simplifies database migration by bringing assessment, conversion, migration, synchronization, validation, and reporting into one unified engine.

PostgreSQL is the first supported source, with additional database platforms planned for expansion. A Cortex Agent powers a structured conversion pipeline within your Snowflake environment.

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Data Quality & Governance: Turn Data Promises into Enforced Standards

Your Data's Promise. Built Into Every Step.

Data contracts often begin as documentation but fail to become enforceable controls. SnowStar Covenant helps bridge that gap by validating schema, completeness, freshness, and accuracy throughout development and runtime.

The goal is simple: catch data issues earlier—before they affect downstream users and applications.

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How It Works

ODCS Contract →

Define schema, SLA, and ownership.

CI/CD Gate →

Validate changes before merge.

Snowflake Runtime →

Run quality rules within Snowflake.

Quality Scorecard →

Generate clear audit reports.

Why It Matters

  • 46 automated checks per contract and run
  • 0 hand-written SQL for generated checks
  • Pre-merge validation to identify issues earlier

One contracted data product can be established in weeks while reducing the engineering effort spent resolving recurring quality issues.

How It Works

Ingest →

Bring data in through zero-copy sharing, your own pipeline, or an extractor.

Transform →

Use Dynamic Tables, Streams, and Tasks.

Serve →

Create semantic views and conformed dimensions.

Consume →

Enable Cortex AI, dashboards, and write-back experiences.

Why It Matters

  • Every change can contribute to a field-level historical trail
  • Any past date can be used to reconstruct the pipeline
  • Near real-time write-back supports action within Salesforce

Initial history models can be delivered quickly, with multiple production use cases developed over time.

Salesforce Intelligence: Your Salesforce Data Has a Past. Keep It.

Go Beyond the Current State.

Salesforce is designed around the current state of your data. But when key fields change, the earlier values can be difficult to reconstruct.

SnowStar CRM History & AI preserves historical changes using SCD Type 2 models and point-in-time views—helping teams understand how the pipeline looked on any given date. It also introduces AI blueprints for use cases such as lead scoring and pipeline intelligence.

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Mortgage Intelligence: Know the Risk Before You Fund

Bring Predictive Intelligence to Mortgage Decisions.

Underwriters often need to make decisions using origination-time information, while large portfolios make deeper manual analysis difficult.

SnowStar Foresight applies predictive modeling and engineered risk features to help identify higher-risk applications at origination. Explainability views provide greater transparency, while adjustable thresholds support different risk strategies.

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How It Works

Ingest →

Bring together origination and performance data.

Transform →

Build model-ready data using Dynamic Tables.

Model →

Train and score using Snowpark features and CatBoost.

Consume →

Deliver insights through dashboards and Cortex AI narratives.

Why It Matters

  • Detect potential defaults earlier
  • Adjust thresholds based on risk strategy
  • Evaluate performance across large loan portfolios

Start with a discovery workshop and explore how the model can be applied to your own portfolio.

Built for Faster Outcomes. Backed by Deeper Expertise.

Snowflake Expertise

Certified architects and specialists bring deep platform, data, and AI knowledge to every engagement.

Production-Ready IP

Reusable accelerators and proven delivery patterns help you move faster than starting from scratch.

One Accountable Team

Work with one experienced partner across architecture, implementation, optimization, and enablement.

Snowflake-Native Approach

Accelerators are designed to keep data, processing, and intelligence close to your Snowflake environment.

Faster Time to Value

Start with focused use cases and accelerate the journey from discovery to measurable outcomes.

Built to Scale Forward

Begin with an immediate challenge, then expand capabilities as your Snowflake environment evolves.

Ready to Accelerate Your Snowflake Journey?

Start with a focused conversation. Together, we'll review your architecture, identify high-value opportunities, and map the right next step for your Snowflake journey.

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