Data and reporting automation

Make business information usable.

Your data lands in one place you can query, including the data trapped in documents, and the reports assemble themselves from figures computed in code.

The situation you are probably in

The information exists. It is in spreadsheets, PDFs, proposals, six dashboards and one person's head. Every month someone spends days assembling a report that is out of date by the time it is read, and nobody can answer a simple question without a meeting.

What we do about it

We start by getting the data out of wherever it is stuck and into a standard database you own. Then we connect the tools you already pay for, so the numbers pull themselves nightly. Reports are composed from those facts in code, which means nothing in them can be invented. Where a model is used at all, it only writes the sentences, and a test checks that every figure in the sentence is one the code computed.

Typical engagement. A measurement setup takes one to two weeks at a fixed fee and is the usual first step. Full data and reporting builds run three to eight weeks.

What you receive.

Concrete things, not outcomes on a slide. This list is the scope of the engagement.

  1. 1

    Your historical documents and spreadsheets turned into one queryable database

  2. 2

    Connections to the platforms you already use, refreshing on a schedule

  3. 3

    A report or dashboard built backwards from the five questions you actually ask

  4. 4

    Written definitions so everyone means the same thing by a lead, a sale or a customer

  5. 5

    The raw data exported somewhere you control, so the numbers are yours

A good fit when

  • Someone assembles the same report by hand every week or month
  • The same fact lives in three places and they disagree
  • You are about to spend money on AI or marketing and cannot measure the before

The right starting point when

Not sure which of these is you? Describe the process and we will point you at the right one, on this page or another.

Price it before you commission it

Put the hours the task takes today, the salary of the person doing it and any quote you hold through the payback calculator. It shows the yearly saving, the payback period and the arithmetic behind both. Free, and nothing is stored.

Run the payback numbers

Things you can check.

Figures from our own systems that this service draws on. Each one names its source.

719
documents from thirty years of trading, searchable in weeks
16
data sources feeding one set of numbers everyone reads
120+
tables of business data you could export tomorrow

Every figure names its source. How we count. The investing system runs on a broker paper account, not real money.

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Make the next AI project one the business can measure.

Thirty minutes with the founder, no slides. You will know what the right solution looks like, what it would take to build, what it should return, and which part to start with.

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