

Opening – Observation or Story A common challenge we see with small to medium businesses is not building the dashboard, but sharing it. A company wants to share sales figures with the leadership team, project progress with specific managers, and…
As a data consultancy in Auckland, we spend our time exploring how new technologies can deliver real business value. Recently, we have been working with conversational AI integration in Power BI, and the initial experience was challenging. Setting up the…
We often see businesses get stuck on the cost of a software licence. The conversation quickly becomes about per-user fees for platforms like Power BI, but this focus misses the much larger, hidden costs draining resources elsewhere. As a data…
Headlines often suggest that AI is revolutionising business analytics overnight. We read about powerful new platforms and capabilities that promise to uncover hidden insights and automate complex decisions. Yet, in our conversations with businesses, we see a gap between this…
A New Way to Handle Repetitive Work We were recently discussing a common business problem with a stakeholder. A key team member was spending hours each week manually processing invoices: opening emails, finding the total on a PDF, typing details…
This week, we were working on a project using AI tools to speed up our development. The goal was to build a new system in days, not months. The acceleration was remarkable, but during a review, we caught something that…