No we dug out a faculty statistician and did the analysis and paid them even more money to fuck it off.
The consultancy resisted this horribly because the tech lead is a performative bullshitter and it doesn’t look good on his portfolio page that it looks like something from 2001.
He should show both the prettier and the ugly version side by side and give it as an example of him being adaptable and willing to please his client instead of himself.