A private-hire data & operations practice.
STPH Data Services is a single-sector practice based in Swords, Co. Dublin, working with private hire operators across IRL, the UK, and internationally.
Built for one sector. Tuned to it.
STPH Data Services works with private hire operators and no one else. The five services we run, data facilitation, dispatch, call centre, offshore handling and telephone numbers, are the operational layers that decide whether a fleet grows cleanly or stalls under infrastructure that never kept pace with it.
We are not a general-purpose software house wandering into transport for a contract. Years of private hire work leave you with judgement that a datasheet cannot, and it surfaces in the details, what to connect first, which dispatch quirks to design around, and which compliance flags genuinely matter when a licence comes up for review.
Every engagement opens with a plain assessment, a roadmap the operator's own team can follow without a translator, and reporting that ties the work back to real outcomes rather than figures that only look good in a slide.
What we believe.
Industry-only
Private hire is the only sector we serve. The depth that single focus buys is what makes the engagement worth its cost.
Operational realism
Our advice comes from how fleets actually run, not from a vendor spec sheet. We are straight about what holds up, what does not, and why.
Audit-ready by default
Encryption, access controls and compliance groundwork are present from the first build, never bolted on once an audit is already looming.
Long horizon
What we deploy is built to be maintained for years rather than to look impressive for a quarter.
How the practice grew.
- 2015
Set up in Swords, Co. Dublin to address the back-office data gap operators kept running into as their fleets grew.
- 2018
Dispatch tier extended to multi-depot operators across Ireland and the UK, with the first thousand-vehicle fleet brought on board.
- 2021
Offshore call-handling tier introduced so operators could cover the overnight hours without carrying a graveyard-shift premium.
- 2024
Telephone number provisioning brought together on one platform sitting on redundant carrier infrastructure.
One short conversation is usually all it takes to see whether we are the right fit.
Tell us what you run and what you are trying to put right. We will reply within the working day.