CLIENT WORK
Infrastructure built
with the people
doing the work.
Every engagement is co-designed with the organizations, coalitions, and communities we serve — bringing technical depth to work that is fundamentally relational.
FEATURED CASE STUDY
Central Minnesota
Alliance
Stearns County, Sherburne County, Benton County Public Health Departments
CentraCare Health - Central Minnesota’s largest healthcare provider
Before Tended Roots Collaborative had a name, this was the project that gave it one. Built in partnership with the Central Minnesota Alliance, this end-to-end data engineering solution demonstrated what becomes possible when modern data infrastructure meets place-based public health work — and became the foundation the consultancy was built on.
THE CHALLENGE
One Region. Four Counties.
No Shared
Data Infrastructure
The Central Minnesota Alliance — a collaboration of Stearns, Sherburne, and Benton County Public Health departments and CentraCare, Minnesota's largest healthcare provider — needed a modern data foundation to fulfill federally required Community Health Needs Assessments, Minnesota-mandated Community Health Assessments, and align with national frameworks including MAPP 2.0 and the Public Health Accreditation Board.
Six years of Minnesota Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data across 661 health indicators existed — but not in a form the alliance could actually use together.
THE BUILD
A production-grade data engineering solution —
built from the ground up.
Using Minnesota Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data, our Founder developed a prototype data engineering solution on Microsoft Fabric — implementing Medallion Lakehouse Architecture across five integrated sources, 661 unique health indicators, and six years of public health survey data totaling more than 5 million rows.
The prototype established the scalable, automated architecture that would inform the full system build — reducing future data ingestion from weeks to hours, and demonstrating what modern infrastructure could make possible for the Alliance's shared public health work
"The solution has garnered interest from the Minnesota Department of Health as a recognized Regional Data Hub — actively exploring investment in the infrastructure as a statewide asset."