I fix that. Businesses I work with cut manual reporting time by up to 80%, eliminate the spreadsheet errors causing costly mistakes, and give leadership a live view of the business — not last week's version of it.
| Product A | £842k |
| Product B | £631k |
| Product C | £498k |
| Product D | £329k |
Highly-paid people doing copy-paste work — manually pulling data from systems, reformatting it, and emailing a spreadsheet that's already out of date before it lands. That's not analysis. That's administration.
Procurement, pricing, staffing, stock — the decisions that move the needle are being made on last Monday's export. By the time you see the problem, it's already happened.
When teams pull different numbers from different systems, the default response is to do nothing, commission another investigation, or go with whoever argued hardest in the meeting.
I don't sell software. I solve the specific business problem — then build the right tool to prevent it coming back.
Every engagement starts with a blunt question: what is your current setup actually costing you? The answer shapes everything we build.
See the detail & pricingReplace the Friday afternoon report-building ritual with a live dashboard your MD checks every morning. Your team gets those hours back. Your leaders get the truth, not a stale export.
If your data lives in five different places and nobody fully owns it, you're paying for that chaos every single day. Microsoft Fabric replaces the patchwork with a single, governed platform — and I'll migrate you without breaking what's working.
If the dashboards exist but the team still reach for Excel to "double-check the numbers" — something isn't working. Whether it's slow reports, low adoption, or data nobody trusts, I'll dig into what's holding it back and fix it.
Clear stages. Fixed prices. No scope creep. You always know what's happening, what it costs, and what you get.
Tell me what's broken, what it's costing you, and what you need. I'll tell you whether I can fix it, what it'll take, and whether the investment makes sense for your size of business. No pitch.
Fixed price. Clear deliverables. Exact timeline. Not a vague "we'll assess and come back to you" — a document you can take to your MD or FD and get a decision made.
I build it, your team reviews it, we refine it. On handover you get full documentation and training — so you're not dependent on me to change a filter six months later.
A straightforward process — no surprises, no handoffs to junior staff, no ambiguity about what happens next.
A relaxed 30-minute call — no agenda, no slides. You tell me about your business, your team, and what's frustrating you most about your current data setup. I listen.
If there's a clear fit, we go deeper. I'll want to understand your data sources, current tools, who needs what information, and what success actually looks like for your team.
You receive a written summary of what I propose to build, the timeline, and a fixed price. Something you can take to your MD or FD and make a decision from, without ambiguity.
I build the solution, you review it at every stage. On handover your team gets full training and documentation — so you're never dependent on me to make a basic change.
New reports as the business grows. Changes when priorities shift. Someone to call when the numbers don't look right. All without the overhead of a full-time hire.
Real dashboard types used by real businesses — click through the slides and interact with the visuals below.
Every example above is built using Microsoft Power BI — no exotic tools, no licence overhead, no vendor lock-in.
Discuss your requirements →I'm Ben Thompson. I've spent nearly a decade working inside businesses — not pitching to them from the outside. I've seen exactly what it costs when reporting is manual, when data isn't trusted, and when leadership is making calls on stale numbers.
When you work with me, you're not handed off to a junior. I do the work personally. That means faster delivery, sharper output, and a consultant who actually cares whether it solves the problem — because my reputation is the only one on the line.
I work exclusively in the Microsoft data stack. Not because it's what I was trained on, but because for most UK businesses, it's the right tool — and going deep beats going broad every time.
Not "great to work with" — what changed in their business.
We were spending two full days every month building a board pack that was out of date before it was printed. Ben replaced the whole process with a live dashboard. Our MD now checks it every morning over coffee. The board pack still exists — it now takes 20 minutes to produce. We've not had a data argument in six months.
Finance and sales were pulling completely different revenue figures in every meeting. It sounds trivial but it paralysed decision-making — nobody trusted any number. Ben fixed the data model in week one. We had a single agreed figure by week two. It unblocked three months of stalled commercial decisions immediately.
We'd tried to implement Power BI twice before with other firms. Nobody used it — the dashboards existed but the team still reached for Excel for everything important. Ben came in, spent time understanding how our people actually worked, and rebuilt the key reports from scratch. Within a fortnight we had 40 people logging in daily. The difference was that he built around us, not around the tool.
If your question isn't here, just ask. The discovery call is free and there's no such thing as a question too basic.
Book a free call →I connect Power BI to your existing business data — your ERP, CRM, accounting software, spreadsheets, databases — and build dashboards and reports that refresh automatically. The end result is your leadership team opening one screen in the morning instead of waiting for someone to email them a spreadsheet. I handle all the technical work: data modelling, DAX calculations, report design, and user training.
Most projects are delivered in 2–6 weeks. A single executive dashboard with clean data sources can be live in under two weeks. More complex builds involving multiple data sources, data warehousing, or Microsoft Fabric migrations take longer — but you'll know the exact timeline before anything starts. Every project has a fixed scope and a fixed price.
This is one of the most common situations I work with. Low adoption almost always comes down to one of three things: the reports don't reflect how the team actually works, the data isn't trusted, or the solution was too complex for day-to-day use. A discovery call will quickly identify which it is — and the fix is usually faster than people expect.
Microsoft Fabric is Microsoft's unified data platform — it combines data pipelines, storage, and analytics in one place. Not every business needs it. If your data lives in a handful of systems and Power BI connects to them directly, Fabric isn't necessary yet. If you're running multiple fragmented tools, spending too much on separate data infrastructure, or planning significant growth — it's worth a conversation. I'll tell you honestly whether it makes sense for your situation.
Yes — and this is probably the single most common project I deliver. We connect Power BI to the same underlying data your Excel reports use, rebuild the logic as a live automated dashboard, and train your team to use and maintain it. The Friday afternoon report-building ritual disappears. Most clients save between 8 and 15 hours per week across their team.
I work best with SMEs — typically businesses with 20 to 500 employees across sectors like manufacturing, professional services, finance, and retail. That's where the problems I solve tend to be most acute and where a focused specialist adds the most value quickly. If you're a very early-stage startup or a large enterprise needing a 10-person team, I'll tell you that on the call and point you somewhere better.
No preparation needed on your side. Just tell me what's frustrating you about how your business uses data right now — and we'll work out together whether I can help fix it.
Every engagement is scoped to a fixed price and a clear outcome. You know exactly what you're buying, what it'll cost, and what you'll be able to do differently when it's done.
Most Power BI projects fail at adoption, not build. The reports exist — nobody logs in. I design around how your team actually works, not how a software demo suggests they should.
You'll end the Friday report-building ritual. Your leadership team gets a live view they can check in 60 seconds. Your analysts spend their time on analysis — not copy-paste. The numbers everyone sees are the same numbers, from one trusted source.
Most growing businesses are running data across a patchwork of tools — each with its own cost, its own admin burden, and its own version of the truth. Microsoft Fabric consolidates it. I make the migration painless.
Designed around your growth, not your current headcount. Stop rebuilding your data infrastructure every 18 months because you outgrew it.
Your data moves, transforms, and arrives where it needs to be — overnight, automatically. No Monday morning data runs. No "the pipeline broke on Friday" calls.
Moving from on-prem, legacy BI, or fragmented cloud — with a sequenced plan that keeps the business running throughout. No big-bang cutover.
If the dashboards exist but your team still reaches for Excel to "double-check the numbers" — something isn't working. Let's start with a conversation about what that looks like, and take it from there.
Whether it's low adoption, slow performance, or data that nobody fully trusts — the fix always starts with understanding the specific context of your business, not applying a generic solution.
Start with a free discovery call →Tell me what's broken. I'll ask four questions. By the end you'll know what it's costing you and what fixing it is worth — whether you hire me or not.
Most people who book the call get a clearer picture of their data problem in 30 minutes than in the last 12 months of internal discussions.
Book the free 30-min call →This isn't a discovery call where I spend 25 minutes talking about my company. I'll spend the time asking about yours — what's broken, what it's costing, and what a fix is realistically worth.
You'll leave the call knowing more than when you arrived. If there's a fit, you'll have a fixed-price proposal in your inbox within 48 hours. If there isn't, I'll tell you — and point you somewhere better.
Prefer to email first? That's fine too. Drop me a line at ben@bathompsonltd.com with two sentences on what's broken. I'll reply same day with a few questions or suggest we jump on a call.