Connect your systems
We identify the systems that hold part of the answer (billing, CRM, scheduling, accounting, and yes, the spreadsheets) and set up a reliable way to read from each one.
Your numbers exist. They’re just in five different systems.
Billing knows revenue. The CRM knows the pipeline. Scheduling knows who’s busy. Someone’s spreadsheet reconciles all three on the last Friday of the month. We build custom dashboards that pull those sources together, so the answer is on a screen instead of in someone’s inbox.
See the five-logins exampleWhy reports take so long.
It usually starts before anyone opens a spreadsheet. Pick one to see how it plays out.
The answer is spread across several systems.
The questions leaders ask usually need two systems at once: revenue and hours worked, sales and staffing, cost and results. No one system has both, so someone pieces the answer together by hand every time.
“How did the north site do against budget last month?”
Four logins, one spreadsheet, and an answer nobody else can reproduce.
We figure out which system has the real version of each number, then pull them all into one view. Nobody loses an afternoon putting it together.
Month-end depends on one person.
The board packet, the funder report, the ops review: each one depends on someone exporting, pasting, and checking. It takes the same hours every month, and by the time it’s presented, it’s often too late to act on.
“Can we get the numbers before Thursday’s board meeting?”
Only if the one person who knows how to rebuild it is in this week.
Your regular reports get built once and update on their own. People spend their time reading the numbers instead of building them.
Two reports, two different numbers.
“Active client.” “Billable hour.” “Open request.” Each one means something slightly different depending on who you ask. Finance counts it one way, operations another, and both have a point.
“That is not the number I have.”
The meeting stops being about the decision and becomes about whose number is right.
We agree on what each number means, write it down in plain language, and count it the same way everywhere. The meeting can get back to the decision.
To see one number, you get the whole system.
Giving someone one figure usually means giving them a login to the whole system. Over time, a lot more people can see a lot more than anyone meant, and nobody goes back to check who still needs it.
“Just give them access so they can pull it themselves.”
A reporting request quietly becomes a standing permission nobody reviews.
Department leads see their own numbers, leadership sees the big picture, and we check who has access on a regular schedule.
One view, instead of five logins.
The same question, “How did last month go?”, answered on one screen, from sources that never used to agree with each other.
- Today, revenue lives in the billing system, pipeline in the CRM, utilization in scheduling, budget in accounting, and the board slide in a spreadsheet.
- After, all five sit on one dashboard, each with one written definition, refreshed nightly. A chart shows revenue against budget for April through September, ending at $412,380 in September, 6.2% over budget.
We fix the numbers first, then build the view.
The dashboard is the last step. Most of the value comes from the work before it: finding where each number really lives, and agreeing on what each one means.
Clean it up
The same customer shows up three different ways in three systems. We match them up and remove duplicates, and we show you the gaps instead of hiding them.
Agree on what each number means
Every number gets one meaning, written in plain language. This is the step that ends the “whose number is right” argument.
Build the dashboard
A view built around the questions your leaders actually ask, not a generic template with your logo on it. The same dashboard works for the board packet and the Monday meeting.
Decide who sees what
Department leads see their own numbers. Leadership sees the big picture. Nobody gets a login to a whole system just to read one number.
Keep it accurate
Systems change, fields get renamed, a new tool shows up. We keep everything connected and up to date, so the dashboard doesn’t quietly go wrong six months in.
Bring us the report that takes all week.
The clearest place to start is a report your team already rebuilds by hand every cycle. Walk us through it and we’ll show you which systems it pulls from, where the numbers don’t match, and what it would take to have it update on its own.
Built on the systems you own
Every number counted the same way
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