Stage 1 · Minimum data
The smallest extract that answers it.
Four services, starting with what the data actually contains.
We profile the data before designing anything, because the answer to most reporting problems is that two systems disagree or a field has been used three different ways over five years. Finding that first costs a fortnight and saves rebuilding a dashboard nobody trusts.
The smallest extract that answers it.
Duplicates, gaps, coding drift.
What is reliable and what is not.
Including fixing records first.
What people actually act on.
Written and agreed, measure by measure.
Small, then extended on evidence.
After a month of real use.
A dashboard with forty tiles gets ignored within a month. We start from the decisions somebody actually makes weekly, agree a written definition for every measure, and build the smallest thing that answers them — because disagreement about what a number means is what kills reporting, not the chart type.
Manual extracts produce a different total depending on who ran them and when. Automating that removes the variation, and the work is mostly in the error handling — what happens when a source is late, a field changes type, or a load half-completes. Silent failures are worse than loud ones.
What feeds what, documented.
Designed first, not patched later.
With logging you can actually read.
Loud failures, not silent ones.
So another team could pick it up.
On the parts they will change.
A single list, maintained.
Whenever you want it.
Models, queries, configuration and documentation are yours, and we would rather train your team than become a permanent dependency. A good engagement ends with somebody internal able to add a measure without calling us.
A free first call on what the numbers are actually meant to decide.