"We were maintaining Airflow DAGs, a custom ingestion service, and three separate monitoring dashboards. Beacon replaced all of it. Our pipeline code went from 2,400 lines of orchestration to 180 lines of declarative YAML."
Data infrastructure for considered teams
Beacon is a data infrastructure platform built for teams who treat their pipelines as engineering, not plumbing. Ingest, transform, and observe — without the noise.
The platform
Most data tools ask you to stitch together three or four products and hope they agree on a schema. Beacon is a single declarative layer — you describe the pipeline, and the runtime handles connection pooling, backfill, schema evolution, and failure recovery.
It is, deliberately, the boring choice. No orchestration graph to maintain, no DAG visualizer to babysit. Your pipelines live in version control next to your application code.
Explore the architecture →What's inside
Each capability is a small, well-defined responsibility — not a feature checkbox. Together they replace the patchwork of ingestion, orchestration, and monitoring tools that most data teams maintain by hand.
Define sources, transforms, and destinations in YAML. Version-controlled, reviewable, diffable. No more clicking through a UI at 2am.
When upstream adds a column, Beacon detects it, logs the change, and evolves the warehouse schema — without breaking downstream models.
Reprocess historical data without re-running the full pipeline. Beacon checkpoints by event time and resumes from the last clean offset.
Every column carries its provenance. Trace any metric back to its source field in seconds — for audits, root-cause analysis, or impact assessment.
Declare how stale a table is allowed to get. Beacon measures actual lag against the contract and pages your on-call before downstream consumers notice.
Run a full pipeline against a sample of production data on your laptop. Test transforms with the same runtime that ships to staging — no mock harness drift.
Customer stories
"We were maintaining Airflow DAGs, a custom ingestion service, and three separate monitoring dashboards. Beacon replaced all of it. Our pipeline code went from 2,400 lines of orchestration to 180 lines of declarative YAML."
"The lineage graph alone justified the migration. When a compliance audit asked where a specific patient-derived metric originated, we answered in two minutes instead of two days of archaeology."
"We shipped our first Beacon pipeline in an afternoon. It felt anticlimactic, which is the highest compliment I can give infrastructure. The thing that used to be a week of glue code became a config file."
Pricing
We don't charge per user. Your whole team can read, review, and deploy pipelines. You pay for the pipelines that are actually running.
Starter
$0
up to 3 active pipelines
Team
$24/pipeline/mo
unlimited seats & sources
Enterprise
Custom
volume & self-hosted