Plain-English writing on reporting and data.
No hype, no invented statistics, no case studies I haven't actually done. Just how the work and the pricing actually work, with the arithmetic shown so you can check it.
How much does report automation cost?
Fixed prices for one-off builds, monthly retainers for the upkeep, and what actually pushes a quote up or down.
ToolsPower BI vs Excel: which does your business need?
An honest comparison — including when Excel is genuinely the better answer — not a Power BI sales pitch.
Diagnostics5 signs your reporting is costing you a day a week
Five recognisable signs, the hours behind each one, and what fixing them actually looks like.
Data & privacyWhat is a bank statement income report?
What the report contains, what it's used for, and why it's a data product — not financial advice or a lending decision.
Reasoning you can check, not statistics you have to take on trust.
This is a new business without a back-catalogue of client work to draw on, so these articles don't lean on case studies or figures I can't stand behind. Where there's arithmetic, the working is shown so you can follow it and check it against your own numbers. Where there's a claim about pricing or how something works, it's how I actually price and build things — not a generic industry line.
Expect articles on how reporting work is priced, the trade-offs between tools like Power BI and Excel, practical signs that reporting has become a hidden cost, and plain explanations of specific deliverables such as bank statement income reports. New articles get added here as they're written.
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Describe what you're trying to work out and I'll tell you plainly whether — and how — I can help.