The reporting problems most businesses actually have
Every report tells a different story
Two teams pull the same metric and get different answers. Meetings turn into arguments about whose numbers are right.
Reporting is slow and manual
Numbers arrive days late, assembled by hand from exports, spreadsheets and copy-paste.
It depends on one or two people
When the person who knows the spreadsheet is away, reporting stops.
Leadership works off snapshots
Decisions get made on last month's picture, not what's happening in the business right now.
Dashboards nobody opens
Built once, never trusted, quietly abandoned. The screens are there, the confidence is not.
Numbers arrive after the decision
By the time the pack is ready, the call it was meant to inform has already been made.
A Simple Diagram
Many sources, one agreed set of numbers, reporting people actually use
Spreadsheets
CRM
Finance
Operations
One Setof Numbers
Dashboards
Scheduled Reports
Decisions
What Changes
The difference reporting you can trust makes to how the business runs
Before
Numbers disagree between teams, so meetings debate the data instead of the business
Reporting is manual and slow, assembled by hand from exports and spreadsheets
One or two people are the bottleneck, and reporting stalls when they're away
Leadership relies on gut feel because the numbers arrive too late to act on
With Building 8
One agreed set of numbers across the business, so everyone starts from the same place
Reporting runs on a schedule, no one has to assemble it each week
The process is documented and automated, so it doesn't depend on any one person
Leadership sees current performance, not last month's picture
What clients say
Building 8 took our client's Power BI estate from manual desktop publishing to a fully governed deployment pipeline, delivered and proven end to end on the licensing they already owned. The test plan passed in full with no open defects, and the documentation and handover were strong enough that the client's own data engineering team now operates the pipeline and onboards new reports themselves.
James HarperManaging Director, Pivot Analytics
Where We Have Done It
Reporting we have built, and what changed
Construction, Property & Infrastructure
Systems IntegrationData Analytics & BI
Global Executive KPI Reporting
72 offices and four systems reduced to one live number, updated continuously rather than collected quarterly.
A global construction consultancy could not say how the business was performing without a quarter-long data-gathering exercise. We built the integration layer that blends its four systems into real-time executive KPIs covering every office worldwide.
Confidential client
Construction, Property & Infrastructure
Government
Data Analytics & BI
Rail Program Cost Performance Dashboard
One consolidated cost view for executives and government, refreshed automatically each cycle.
Multi-billion-dollar rail programs report cost from many delivery phases in many formats, and assembling that by hand consumes the reporting window before anyone can act on it. We built a purpose-built cost breakdown structure and an automated dashboard that consolidates every phase.
Confidential client
Healthcare & Aged Care
Data Analytics & BISystems Integration
Clinical Trials Business Intelligence Platform
Six systems and several currencies reconciled into one live view of trial cost and revenue.
Global clinical trials scatter trial, cost and revenue data across systems and currencies, and reconciling it by hand is a job that is never quite finished. We combined them into a single real-time view for Saluda Medical in a common currency, and trained their team to run and extend it.
We start by understanding what people actually need to see, what decisions the reports feed, and where the current numbers fall over.
2
Fix the data underneath
We sort out the source data so the numbers hold up: consistent definitions, one version of each metric, quality checks built in.
3
Build reporting that runs itself
We build dashboards and scheduled reports on top of that foundation, so the numbers arrive without anyone assembling them.
1
Understand
We start by understanding what people actually need to see, what decisions the reports feed, and where the current numbers fall over.
2
Fix the data underneath
We sort out the source data so the numbers hold up: consistent definitions, one version of each metric, quality checks built in.
3
Build reporting that runs itself
We build dashboards and scheduled reports on top of that foundation, so the numbers arrive without anyone assembling them.
First dashboards are typically live in about 30 days, built inside the tools you already use.
Applied AI
AI on numbers you already trust
Most AI projects fail on the data underneath, not the model. Once the reporting foundation holds up, the same governed data can do more than fill a dashboard. It can forecast, flag and prompt. That is where we put AI to work.
Your data, nothing else
Every model runs on data that has been validated and governed first. No guessing from a generic dataset, no surprises from a source nobody checked.
Built to move a number
We start from the metric that matters and work back. Churn caught before it shows up in revenue. A forecast that lands a week earlier. A fleet sized to the contract, not the habit.
People lead, AI accelerates
Your team keeps the decision. The model does the reading, the ranking and the repetitive work nobody had time for.
Measured, in production
A prototype proves the idea. Production proves the value. Every deployment ships with a way to track what changed, so you know whether it is working and not just whether it is running.
Where We Have Done It
AI we have put into production, and what changed
Manufacturing
AI & Machine LearningData Analytics & BI
Predictive Sales Analytics (Next Best Action)
Gross profit margin up 35% within three months.
With tens of thousands of B2B customers, no sales team can read that pattern manually, so the quiet churn goes unnoticed until it shows up in the numbers. We built an automated recency-frequency-monetary model over Spandex's Salesforce data that predicts each customer's next purchase and prompts the right approach at the right time.
Spandex
Retail & E-commerce
AI & Machine LearningData Analytics & BI
Customer Sentiment Analytics
Merchandising and marketing get the reasons behind the ratings, not just the averages.
A five-star average tells you customers were happy, not what to stock more of. We mined product reviews across Tell Me Baby's 60,000-member loyalty program to surface the sentiment behind the scores.
Tell Me Baby
Logistics
Retail & E-commerce
AI & Machine LearningData Analytics & BI
Fleet Optimisation for a Major Logistics Tender
$1.2 million off the bid - six fewer prime movers, same contracted service levels.
Tender pricing turns on how many trucks you actually need, and over-specifying quietly loses the work. We modelled a supermarket distribution contract in detail and showed its service requirements could be met with 88 prime movers rather than 94.