Data platform and reporting
The problem
Reporting logic lives in spreadsheets and scattered queries, with no version history. Nobody remembers why a number was calculated a certain way, and the management dashboard always needs someone to run a query by hand before anyone can look at it.
What we do
We build one warehouse in your own cloud, versioned views whose changes show up as a diff, daily snapshots for data your source system doesn’t keep itself, a scheduled dashboard that runs without a server, and a table catalogue that documents its own structure. A cost cap is set for every query in advance, not after the fact.
We run a platform like this ourselves, every day: versioned views deployed identically to two parallel databases, a drift check that finds and flags hand-edited views before they cause a conflict, daily snapshots of stock and price history, a management dashboard that refreshes itself, and a shared access layer that stops an expensive query before it costs anything. The same technical foundation goes into every build we do for a client.
The build itself is a warehouse (BigQuery or similar) on your own account, a managed integration tool to bring sources together, SQL views under version control, and a small Python catalogue tool.
We test the views and cost caps before go-live. Go-live includes your team’s induction into the catalogue and how a new view gets added following the same rules. We also agree who owns monitoring the platform and its costs after go-live.
What you own
The cloud project, the source code of the views, and the catalogue. We have no access to your platform unless you grant it separately for maintenance, and that can be revoked at any time. Maintenance is an optional monthly agreement; without it, the platform keeps working, because it was built in your cloud, not ours.
What we don’t promise
- A finished client case for exactly this. We describe our own platform, which is in production for us every day. Your build is built for your own data and cloud, not copied from ours as a template.
- Free cloud usage. Running cloud costs are billed straight to you and estimated in advance before go-live.
- A cost cap by default. It’s configured separately for every query. It isn’t automatically on unless it’s been built in.
- Access to your platform without a separately agreed maintenance contract.
- Real-time sync for every source. Some data is kept as a daily snapshot, not with second-level latency. We always say which before go-live.
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