You will know the number before the work starts
The first call and the written audit that follows it are free. Everything after that is a fixed price against a scope we have both agreed. No day rates, no hourly creep, no invoice that surprises you.
No pitch, no obligation.
Three phases, and two of them are free
You can stop after either free phase and still walk away with something useful in writing.
Phase one
Discovery call
Free
30 minutes, on Google Meet
You describe what is not working and what it is costing you. We tell you honestly whether it is the kind of thing we can fix.
- A written summary of the problem
- An honest answer if we are not a fit
- No preparation needed beforehand
Phase two
Data audit
Free
Delivered in writing, usually within two weeks
We map which system holds what, where your figures diverge and why. This is the part that usually settles an argument that has been running for years.
- A map of your systems and where they disagree
- What it would take to fix, in plain English
- Yours to keep, whoever you hire
Phase three
The build
Fixed price
Quoted against the audit, agreed before anything starts
Warehouse, pipelines and reporting, built in stages. Because the audit comes first, the quote is based on what is actually there rather than on a guess.
- One price, agreed in advance
- Built in stages you can stop between
- Reconciled against your current reports
- Documentation and handover included
Why there is no price list
We could put a number on this page. It would be a guess, and we would spend the first call walking it back, which helps nobody.
Two manufacturers of the same size can be a month apart in effort. One has four systems with usable databases and a finance team who agree on what revenue means. The other has eleven years of spreadsheets, two site mergers and a product coding scheme that changed in 2019 and was never backfilled.
So we do the audit first, for free, and quote against what we actually found. You get a real number based on your real data, rather than a headline figure with a page of caveats under it.
If that sounds like a way of avoiding the question, the free phases are the answer. You can get all the way to a written, specific number without spending anything.
What moves the price
- How many systems need connecting
- Whether they can be read directly or only exported
- How much history needs cleaning up
- How many reports you actually need on day one
- Whether access needs restricting by site or role
- How much of it your own team wants to take on
Fixed price, not a day rate
Most data consultancies bill by the day. We think that puts the incentives in the wrong place, so here is the difference laid out plainly.
Billing by the day
- You find out the total cost afterwards
- Slower work earns more, which is a strange thing to reward
- Scope creep is billable, so nobody pushes back on it
- Learning your systems is charged to you
- Budget approval means approving an unknown
How we do it
- One number, agreed before work starts
- Taking longer than expected is our problem, not yours
- Anything outside scope is quoted before it is started
- The free audit is where we learn your systems
- You can take a specific figure to your board
The trade off is honest: fixed pricing means we scope carefully and say no to vague briefs. That is why the audit comes first, and why it is free.
What happens after the build
Support is optional and monthly. Everything is documented and handed over, so staying with us should be a choice rather than a necessity.
You run it yourselves
You get the documentation, the definitions and the handover session. No ongoing fee, and no dependency on us to make a change.
We keep an eye on it
A monthly retainer covering monitoring, fixing anything that breaks, and small changes as your business shifts. Cancellable monthly.
We build the next thing
New reports or new systems quoted the same way as the original build, as separate fixed price pieces of work.
Pricing questions
The ones people ask before they are willing to book anything.
Why are there no prices listed on this page?
Because a number without a scope is meaningless. Two manufacturers of the same size can be a month apart in effort depending on how many systems are involved and what state the data is in. Rather than publish a figure we would immediately have to caveat, we do the free audit first and then quote a fixed price against what we actually found.
Do you charge a day rate?
No. A day rate pays us for taking longer, which is the wrong incentive. Work is quoted as a fixed price against an agreed scope, so if it takes longer than expected that is our problem rather than yours.
What happens if the scope changes halfway through?
Anything outside the agreed scope is quoted separately before it is started, so nothing appears on an invoice that you have not already agreed to. Work already scoped stays at the price we agreed even if it turns out to be harder than expected.
Are there licence costs on top?
Possibly, and we will tell you before you commit. Reporting usually runs on Power BI licences bought directly from Microsoft, and cloud hosting is billed by Microsoft rather than through us. We do not mark those up or take commission on them.
Do we have to sign an ongoing contract?
No. Support is optional and monthly, and everything is documented and handed over so your own team or another supplier can maintain it. If you never want to speak to us again after handover, the work still stands up.
What is the smallest piece of work you will take on?
A single report that somebody needs and nobody can build. Small pieces are a sensible way to find out whether we work well together before committing to anything larger.
Get to a real number without spending anything
Two free phases stand between you and a specific, fixed quote based on your actual data. Start with the call.
- Discovery call, free
- Written data audit, free
- A fixed quote against what we found
- An honest answer if we are not the right fit
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