Business Intelligence
Business intelligence services
Dashboards people actually open: a short agreed list of metrics, one owner per number, and a habit of looking.
The problem
The dashboard your last agency built has forty-two charts on it. Three of them update automatically. The rest depend on someone uploading a fresh export, which stopped happening six weeks ago. Your team has quietly gone back to the spreadsheet one person rebuilds every Friday afternoon, which takes about three hours and is the only number anyone trusts. A useful BI setup is not a large dashboard with many charts. It is a small number of agreed metrics — the ones that actually predict whether the week was good or bad — updated from live data, and reviewed together at the same time each week. The discipline matters as much as the technology.
The weekly review runs on current numbers, not last week's feeling.
Built for: Teams whose reports take hours to assemble or whose dashboards nobody opens.
What we deliver
A short metric list, agreed first. Before building anything, we run a single session to agree which five to ten numbers your team actually makes decisions from. Everything else stays off the dashboard. A chart nobody acts on is noise.
Live data, not manual uploads. The dashboard connects directly to your data sources — Zoho, Google Sheets, a database, marketplace exports — so the numbers update without anyone pushing a file. The three-hour Friday rebuild becomes a glance.
One owner per metric. Every number on the dashboard has one named person responsible for it. When it looks wrong, there is one call to make. Shared ownership is how wrong numbers survive for months without being fixed.
A weekly review habit. We help you set a fifteen-minute weekly routine around the dashboard. The technology is the easy part; the habit is what makes the investment worthwhile.
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Frequently asked questions
- Which BI tools do you build on?
- Looker Studio for teams already in the Google ecosystem, Metabase for teams who want something self-hosted, and occasionally Power BI when a client's organisation already has it licensed. We do not sell you a tool; we pick the one that matches your data sources, your budget, and whether you have someone to maintain it internally.
- Can you build a dashboard if our data is still in spreadsheets?
- Yes, with an honest caveat. A dashboard connected to a sheet is only as reliable as the sheet. If the sheet is well-maintained and consistently structured, it works fine. If it changes format regularly or multiple people edit it without rules, we will likely suggest tidying the sheet or putting a lightweight pipeline in front of the dashboard first.
- What if we want a dashboard but are not sure which metrics matter?
- That uncertainty is actually the right place to start. We run the metric-selection session before any design work begins. The question we ask is simple: if this number moved significantly in the wrong direction and you did not notice for two weeks, what would it cost you? The numbers where the answer is expensive are the ones that belong on the dashboard.