DAT · Business Systems
Analytics & Reporting
Forty-chart dashboards are how truth hides. We build reporting around the few numbers that drive your decisions: computed correctly, delivered daily, with the anomaly flagged for you.
Sound familiar?
Forty charts, zero decisions
Dashboards that describe everything and conclude nothing.
Duelling numbers
Two reports, two different revenues, and a meeting about which is real.
This service exists because we kept meeting these two. Here is what fixing them properly includes.
What's included.
DAT / analytics-reporting
Metric definition
Each number defined once, with its source and its owner: no duelling spreadsheets.
Pipeline reliability
Data collected by systems on a schedule that proves it ran.
Daily digest delivery
The numbers arrive in WhatsApp or email: where you already look.
Anomaly surfacing
When a number breaks pattern, it gets flagged with context, not buried in a chart.
How business systems work runs here
Map where truth lives
Which system owns the customer, the stock, the money, and where the copies disagree today.
Design the single record
One event updates everything it touches; nothing is typed twice.
Migrate in stages
Existing data moved and cleaned while work continues. Never a switchover cliff.
Keep the numbers closing
Reports that reconcile to events, so the figure your accountant sees is the figure that happened.
What it's judged by.
Every engagement reports these: the numbers, not the vibes.
Numbers that agree
Stock, orders and cash matching across every screen that shows them.
Time to answer
How fast "what is the status of X" gets answered without asking a colleague.
Adoption
A system nobody uses is shelfware; we measure whether the team actually lives in it.
This is for you if
- Companies whose customer history lives in five inboxes
- Operations where stock, orders and money never quite reconcile
- Founders who cannot answer "how are we doing" without a day of spreadsheet work
And honestly not, if
- Buying software to avoid fixing a process: the process comes first
- Teams unwilling to retire the old spreadsheet once the system runs
We turn down work that fits this column. It is cheaper for both of us early.
“A business system has one job: make the numbers agree with reality.”
how we run business systems
Asked about this service.
Can reports arrive on WhatsApp?
Yes: our own operation reports to WhatsApp daily: the numbers, the anomaly, the decision needed. Email and dashboards too, but delivery where you already look wins.