EvolutionIQ, a New York City-based company providing ML insights to large insurance carriers, overhauled its data platform, positioning the company for growth and strengthening developer morale. They adopted Dagster as their orchestration layer, moving from individual pipelines to a unified code base and achieving significant productivity gains. The team's adoption of Dagster was facilitated by a clear vision, hands-on champions, and incremental gains during the transition process. With the new data platform, EvolutionIQ reduced onboarding time for new clients from several months to less than a week, improved accountability, and enabled developers to focus on higher-level problems. The company has since moved to DataStack 2.1, which will integrate Dagster with Vertex AI for feature and tuning management.