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Most businesses already have the data they need. It's often spread across accounting software, a CRM, spreadsheets and Microsoft 365, and requires someone to spends hour each month exporting and pasting it all together. We build dashboards that do that work automatically, by creating a solid foundation and connectivity between all your data sources, the important decisions are made with live, up-to-date figures.
Our developers build reporting dashboards in Power BI, Excel and custom web applications, and we can now add AI that can further automate data manipulation, watch for problems and answer questions in plain English.
The right tool depends on who needs to see the data, how much of it there is and what you already pay for. We build in all three, so we recommend whichever fits your business rather than the one we happen to sell.
| Power BI | Excel | Custom web app | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Organisation-wide reporting with many users and many data sources | Teams that already work in Excel and want automated reports without new licences | Customer or partner-facing dashboards, or reporting inside your own portal |
| Sharing | Power BI service, Teams and SharePoint, with row-level security | Workbooks shared through SharePoint or OneDrive | Any browser, behind your own login and branding |
| Data volume | Millions of rows through import, DirectQuery or Microsoft Fabric | Large datasets through the Power Pivot data model rather than worksheet rows | Whatever the database behind it supports, such as SQL Server or Azure SQL |
| Licensing | Power BI Pro or Premium per user, or Fabric capacity | Included with Microsoft 365 | No Microsoft licence for viewers, hosting costs instead |
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| Learn more | Power BI consulting | Excel reporting solutions | Custom app development |
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Collecting data is rarely the problem. Getting it out of separate systems, cleaning it and making the numbers agree is where most of the work sits. We connect each source to a single data model, so every page of the dashboard tells the same story.
Live ledger, invoice and pipeline figures instead of monthly CSV exports.
Third-party app integrationReport straight from operational data without copying it into spreadsheets first.
SQL Server and Access integrationConsolidate dozens of files into one model that refreshes with a single click.
Power Query data preparationAdd document activity, meeting load and collaboration data through Microsoft Graph, giving context your line-of-business systems can't.
Microsoft Graph API integrationA traditional dashboard still relies on someone opening it and noticing what changed. AI closes that gap. We use Copilot when your licensing already covers it, and custom agents when automation tasks become too complex.
AI profiles your source data, suggests measures and relationships, drafts the DAX and Power Query steps and lays out first-draft report pages in Power BI or Microsoft Fabric. Our developers then check and finish the work, which shortens the slowest part of any dashboard project. For recurring reports, AI writes the monthly commentary so the pack arrives already explained.
An AI agent watches the data as it refreshes, compares it with targets and history, and messages the right person in Teams or email when something moves, with a short explanation of what changed. We built a system like this that cuts competitor response time from two weeks to twelve minutes.
Ask "why did margin drop in Queensland last month?" and get an answer with the figures and a chart, drawn from your own data model. Copilot in Power BI handles this for many reports. For SQL Server, Access or line-of-business data, we build custom AI agents that turn questions into checked queries.
Data is checked on every refresh, on a schedule or as it streams in.
Thresholds and anomaly detection flag movements that fall outside normal patterns.
AI drafts a short summary of what changed and the figures behind it.
The alert goes to the person responsible in Teams or email, with a link to the dashboard.
A walkthrough of an older interactive Power BI dashboard built Office Experts..
An Excel dashboard built by our team, Scott showcases some of the abilities inside Excel.
A retail data provider had partner-facing Power BI reports built but needed certainty that one wrong setting couldn't expose a partner's figures to another before external access went live. We reviewed the reports for design and usability, locked access down with Row-Level Security and tested with a real external account, matching every figure to the client's own numbers to the cent. Export options are now closed off for partners only, and adding a new partner is a simple task the internal team runs themselves.
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The client was building large retailer review decks by hand, pulling figures out of Power BI and pasting them into slide templates one by one. We built a Python tool that reads a simple scope sheet, queries the client's existing Power BI data directly and assembles a fully branded deck of around 660 slides in under five minutes. The tool tailors what it includes to the audience, so a supplier version leaves out commercial detail that a retailer version includes.
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The client, an FCA-regulated financial services firm, was running compliance on spreadsheets and scattered policy documents. We replaced the spreadsheet with a live SharePoint risk register, built AI agents that map risks to mitigations and controls, and deployed a Power BI and Power Apps compliance dashboard that shows real-time recommendations and assignments to staff in Microsoft Teams. Monthly review time fell from around 6 hours to 1, and all 24 risks that previously had no named owner are now assigned and tracked.
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