How we work, and what it costs

Five stages. Each one is priced before it starts and leaves you with something you keep. You decide at every stage whether there is a next one.

The five stages

Each stage stands on its own

Most clients come in at Stage 1 and work up. If you already know what you need, start further along and we will scope it from there.

1

Where you stand

In your own time, before you speak to anyone
Free
No card, nothing to install

Work out what your month-end actually costs before you speak to anybody, including us.

What this stage is not. We have not seen your data yet. Everything here runs off what you tell us.
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2
Most clients start here

Reporting Assessment

One week from access to document
R8 000
Fixed price, excluding VAT

We look at your real setup and write down what we find. The document is yours to keep, whatever you decide next.

  • How your reporting works today, where it breaks, and who it depends on.
  • The platform call: Power BI on its own, or with Microsoft Fabric, licence costs included.
  • What your close costs now, from your own salary and time figures.
  • What to build first, sequenced, with an indicative price on each piece.
  • Yours to keep. Use it with us, another provider, or your own team.
  • Depth on up to three core data sources. The rest of your estate is still mapped in the document.
What this stage is not. Nothing is built here. You get a document and a recommendation, not a dashboard.
The R8 000 comes off the price if you go ahead with a Proof of Concept or a full build within 90 days.
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3

Proof of Concept

Two weeks from data access to live dashboard
R35 000
Fixed price, excluding VAT

A working dashboard on your own data. Small enough to be affordable, real enough to judge.

  • One or two pages, from one or two data sources.
  • Native Power BI visuals and basic measures, nothing custom.
  • Connected to your live data, not a mock-up.
  • Built to answer one question: is this worth rolling out wider?
  • Stop here if you want. You keep what was built.
What we need from you. Access to the source systems in scope. The clock starts when we have it.
Talk it through
4

Full Build

Duration scoped per engagement
Scoped to your business
Quoted from your assessment

The reporting your business runs on, built out across the divisions that need it.

  • Scoped and quoted from your assessment before anything starts.
  • Multiple divisions or entities on one model, one set of definitions.
  • The data layer behind it, refreshing on a schedule, not by hand.
  • Training and handover, so the capability stays in your business.
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5

Managed Reporting

Ongoing, cancellable monthly
Sized to what we manage
Quoted before it starts

We keep what we built working, so nobody on your side has to become the Power BI person by accident.

  • Refresh monitoring. A failed refresh is ours to catch and fix, not yours to discover.
  • We maintain what was built: access for new people, small fixes, definitions kept current. New reports and new pages are quoted separately, priced before they start.
  • A direct line to the person who built it, with a response time agreed up front.
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Nothing rolls over on its own

Every stage ends with a decision that belongs to you. We price the next stage before it starts, and we say plainly when we think the answer is to stop. If you walk away after Stage 2, you still have the document. If you walk away after Stage 3, you still have the dashboard.

Who does the work

The person who scopes it is the person who builds it

Every stage, every engagement is delivered by a principal consultant: the same person who scopes your assessment writes the DAX and takes the call when a refresh fails. There is no handover to a junior team once the contract is signed. Ask us who will be doing the work, and ask the same question of everybody else you are speaking to.

And nothing we build depends on any one person, including us. Everything is documented, trained and handed over, so the capability sits in your business, not in a consultant's head.

Not sure which stage you are at?

Run the scorecard first. Ten statements about your own close, and an honest read on whether this is worth a conversation at all. If you would rather see the number first, the calculator prices your close in salary hours.

Run the Month-End Scorecard Work out what your close costs