Reporting
Numbers pulled, formatted and delivered where people already are — every morning, unattended.
Reporting is rarely hard. It is just dull, which is why it gets done irregularly, late, or not at all. By the time the numbers arrive they are a week old and nobody acts on them.
We build the reporting so it runs itself and lands where people already look — in the chat, in the inbox, or on a screen in the office.
Data from several sources
Sales from one system, stock from another, ad figures from a third — combined into one picture instead of three tabs.
Consistent definitions
If two departments calculate revenue differently, the report is worthless. We pin the definitions down before we build.
History
The numbers are kept over time, so you can see movement rather than a snapshot. That is often what makes a report usable.
Daily and weekly reports
Laid out to be read on a phone, and delivered at the same time every day in the channel people already have open.
Exceptions rather than lists
A report nobody reads is wasted. We can set it up to speak only when something stands out from the normal.
Dashboards
A page showing what you actually look for, for the times when someone wants to dig deeper than the daily message.
The best report is the one nobody has to open
A reporting tool waits for someone to log in. A daily message in the channel people already have open gets read. It sounds like a detail, but it is the difference between numbers that get acted on and numbers that get collected.
See what it costsHow we deliver
The same approach whatever the area. You can stop after each phase, and you know what the next step costs before agreeing to it.
We map it out first
Ninety minutes going through your processes to work out what can genuinely be automated. You get a clear picture of what is possible and what it would cost.
We build on a fixed price
One- to two-week sprints, each ending in a demo. You know the cost before we start, and you own the code afterwards. No lock-in, no long contract.
We keep it running
Service plans covering maintenance, support and extensions as the business changes.
Is this the right place to start?
If two or more of these sound familiar, there is usually something to gain. If none do, we would rather say so now than after a proposal.
- Someone spends the first hour each morning gathering numbers
- Management asks for figures rather than being able to see them
- The reports are always a week behind
- Problems are spotted late because nobody looks daily
Questions we get asked
We already use Power BI or similar. Is that wasted?+
No, and you should keep it. The difference is that a BI tool waits for someone to open it. What we build goes to people where they are. The two do not fight — we often pull from the same source.
Can we change the report ourselves afterwards?+
Yes. We usually put the content in a spreadsheet or config file you can edit, so you can add a line or change a threshold without calling us.
What if the source changes?+
Then the report breaks, and it should say so clearly rather than send wrong numbers. That is exactly what a service plan covers — APIs change a couple of times a year without warning.