Defining BI helps organizations get real business value from Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, and Azure data platforms with the judgment of a practice leader and the output of a senior BI engineer.
Every engagement is designed with long-term value in mind: decisions made faster, platforms that run smoothly, and teams that keep momentum.
Fractional data leadership, second opinions, and blind-spot hunting. A sounding board with practice-leadership tenure on retainer or on demand.
A fixed-fee, fixed-scope look at your Power BI estate. You get a candid read on what's working, what isn't, and a prioritized plan you can execute with or without us.
Get your semantic models ready for the AI era, Fabric data agents, model audits for conversational readiness, and AI-assisted development practices that compound.
Semantic models, reports, deployment pipelines, and governance built to enterprise standards. Architecture decisions in one hour, working code the next.
Senior Power BI development, administration, and architecture embedded in your team. Speed to delivery without the ramp-up tax.
Thirty minutes, no pitch deck. Bring the problem; I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right fit and point you elsewhere if I'm not.
Book a callReports are a means, not the deliverable. Work is delivered prioritizing the decisions and dollars it moves.
Practice-leadership judgment with senior-IC output; strategy and stakeholders in the morning, semantic models and automation in the afternoon.
Power BI platforms that deploy, govern, and monitor themselves. Fabric CLI, REST APIs, source control, the works.
AI-assisted development across administration, deployment, and modeling. Building BI-as-code skills in data practices. Applied daily to deliver compounding value.
"He operated as a senior technical leader and a hands-on IC simultaneously, shaping architecture and product decisions in one hour and building deployment automation the next."Jon MeadowsChief Technology Operations Officer, Silverchair
Understand the business, the data estate, and the gap between them. Name the problem precisely before spending against it.
A prioritized path to close gaps and grow value. Quick wins separated from structural fixes, with the trade-offs in plain language.
Execute with senior hands, automate what should never be manual again, and leave your team stronger and growing in skillset.
A decade in Microsoft data from pioneering Power BI inside a Fortune 500, to leading a BI consulting practice, to directing analytics modernization and enterprise platform rebuild.
Defining BI exists for organizations that need that range without the overhead: leadership-grade judgment, architect-grade design, and engineer-grade delivery, billed as one consultant.
A thirty-minute conversation is the cheapest assessment you'll ever run. Bring the problem that's bugging you.
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