The report is written before you ask for it.
The monthly report takes someone a day. Most of that day is not analysis, it is fetching: exporting from one system, pasting into another, and reconciling why two of them disagree about the same number.
This pulls from every system that holds a piece of the answer, reconciles them against definitions you set, and assembles the report you actually read. Where sources disagree it says so on the page rather than quietly picking one.
How a report gets built without papering over a disagreement.
On a schedule, figures are pulled from every system that holds them and reconciled against each other using your definitions. If the sources agree, the report is assembled and delivered with every figure traceable back to where it came from. If they disagree, it is still delivered, but the disagreement is marked rather than averaged away.
Good fit, and not.
The second list is the useful one. If you recognise yourself in it, say so on the call and we’ll tell you that rather than sell you something.
Good fit if
- The same report gets rebuilt by hand on a regular cycle
- The numbers live in more than one system
- You can define your terms — what counts as active, closed, or billable
Not a fit if
- The report changes shape every time. Automate the stable parts, keep the rest manual
- You need a live dashboard rather than a scheduled document. Different build
- Nobody reads it. Automating an unread report just wastes the compute instead of the day
What a build usually looks like.
Descriptions of what we build, not case studies. We have no clients yet, and these are illustrations rather than work delivered for anyone.
A scheduled build
Assembles and delivers on a cycle, with every figure traceable to the system it came from.
A reconciliation build
Compares the same figure across systems and flags disagreements rather than averaging them away.
A digest build
Sends the short version to the people who only need to know what changed.
For whoever asks the hard question.
Definitions live in one place and are applied identically across every source, which is usually where hand-built reports diverge — two people count "active" slightly differently and nobody notices for a quarter. Figures carry a link back to the query that produced them, so "where did this come from?" has an answer rather than a shrug.
- One definition
- Your terms are defined once and applied the same way to every source.
- Disagreements surfaced
- Sources that don't match are shown side by side, never averaged.
- Traceable figures
- Every number links back to where it came from.
Thirty minutes to find out whether this is worth building.
Usually two to four weeks. You’ll get a written scope and a fixed price before anything is built, and if it isn’t a fit we’ll say so on the call.
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