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I'm the bridge between “we have this data” and “we know what to do with it.”
Reporting you can trust. A 7am email that tells you which invoices are overdue. A straight answer to “what should we do about AI?” Power BI is one of my tools, not the whole job. Every engagement has its price on the page, from a £195 AI hour to a full reporting build.
Every engagement has a published price, so you can work out roughly what it costs before you speak to me.
Not sure, or it's more than one of these? See the full list with what each one includes, or just get in touch and we'll work it out.
You don't lack reports. You lack reporting you can trust.
"If a figure doesn't reconcile back to your source system to the penny, it doesn't ship. That is the standard every piece of work is held to."
Support Intelligence · CPiO
“Duncan doesn’t just build reports, he builds solutions.”
I’ve had the pleasure of working closely with Duncan over the last 12 months or so, and one thing that has always stood out is how passionate he is about Power BI, reporting and continual process improvement through data driven decisions.
He has a rare ability to take a complex business problem, understand what people actually need to know based on his firm business acumen, and turn it into clear, actionable insights.
A great example of this was the Support Intelligence reporting he developed for us. What started as a requirement to better understand support performance evolved into a set of dashboards that gave clear visibility of case volumes, customer activity, workload trends and operational performance. Duncan was always receptive to feedback, continually refining the reports and challenging assumptions to ensure the end result delivered meaningful insights rather than simply presenting data.
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The reports Duncan has built have become an important part of how we manage and improve our service. They help us identify trends, understand workloads, make informed decisions and focus our attention where it is needed most. What I particularly value is that he never loses sight of the people using the reports. He knows when to simplify, when to provide more detail, and how to present information in a way that makes sense to the audience.
Beyond his technical skills, Duncan is simply a pleasure to work with. His enthusiasm for Power BI is infectious, and it’s obvious that he genuinely enjoys helping people get more value from their data. He’s approachable, easy to collaborate with, welcomes feedback, and always wants to deliver the best possible outcome.
If you’re looking for someone who can transform complex data into meaningful insights, challenge your thinking in a positive way, and deliver reporting that drives better decisions, Duncan would be an excellent choice.
Siobhan FineganSupport ManagerYou've got accounts software, spreadsheets, a CRM, maybe a ChatGPT login. The trouble is everything that happens between them. Sound familiar?
Numbers nobody trusts.
Your data lives in accounts packages, CRMs, ERPs and spreadsheets. Different people pull different figures, and the monthly meeting turns into a debate about whose number is right instead of what to do about it.
Mornings lost to admin.
Chasing overdue invoices, copying the same details from one system into another, checking three screens to find out what's on today. None of it needs you, but it lands on you every morning.
“We should be doing something with AI.”
Everyone says it, and nobody has a plan. Which tools are worth paying for, whether your data is ready, and what to keep well away from it are questions with plain answers, if you can find someone to ask.
Every price below is published, and every assessment credits against the work that follows it.
Fixed-price, scored assessments. The £950 Health Check comes off any work booked within 90 days, in full.
A fixed-price, scored assessment of your Power BI estate covering data model, measures, performance, governance and design, with a prioritised roadmap.
An independent audit of your Sage 200 data, with trusted reports built on top. If the trial balance doesn't tie back to Sage at £0, it doesn't ship.
Copilot doesn't fix your model, it inherits it. Find out whether your semantic layer gives AI correct answers, tested against thirty real business questions, before you switch it on.
What capacity you would need, what it costs over three years, and which parts of your estate should not move at all. A decision you can defend to a board, either way.
Fixed scope and a fixed price wherever the job allows one, so you are not buying days.
One system you already run, one report you keep asking for, the headline number reconciled back to source to the penny. Live in your own Power BI within ten working days. If it does not tie, you do not pay the balance.
From scattered spreadsheets to one source of truth: connected systems, a properly modelled semantic layer, and reports people want to open. Three weeks for the fixed-scope version.
Tableau, Qlik, SSRS or spreadsheets into Power BI at a published rate, so you can work out the cost yourself. Free assessment fixes the total before you commit.
Still paying to keep an old Sage, Dynamics or Epicor system alive just so the history is reachable? Archive it, keep an audit pack ready for when someone asks, and stop paying for a system nobody uses.
Small automations over the tools you already pay for. Each one gets a fixed price before anything is built.
Straight answers about AI by the hour or the month, or a fixed block with someone building alongside your people.
Plain-English answers from someone who builds with AI every week: which tools are worth paying for, what to keep away from AI, and when not to bother at all.
An engineer inside your team for a fixed block, building reporting, automations, data pipelines or AI tools alongside your people. It ends with something running and someone who can look after it.
The part most consultants leave out, and the reason reporting stops being trusted.
Stuck on a measure, a model or a design that won't land? Unblocking sessions for developers and consultants, and training days built on your own data, from a first look at Power BI to advanced.
Three tiers, one named person answering. Monitoring and a scored monthly report from £250, hands-on fixes with a 48-hour turnaround from £750, or someone owning the reporting roadmap from £1,500.
The £0 guarantee
Every reporting system I hand over ties back to the source it came from. On financial reporting that standard is absolute: the accounts reconcile back to your ERP at £0 variance, to the penny, before anything reaches you.
Independent by design
No Sage licences, no Microsoft seats, no add-on product of my own. Nothing in the advice is shaped by a resale commission. What you pay for is the work, and nothing else.
Accessibility, practised
Contrast that passes, colour that's never the only signal, alt text on every visual and an order screen readers can follow. I speak about accessible reporting at conferences; the standard that matters is that it's in every build, on every page.
Top row: what I build with. Bottom row: what I connect to.
Product names and logos are trademarks of their respective owners. Their use here indicates the tools I work in, not endorsement, certification or affiliation.
Production, stock and cost reporting pulled straight from the ERP.
Sales, margin and inventory in one clear view instead of five spreadsheets.
Utilisation, project and finance reporting your partners can trust.
Project cost, valuation and operational reporting that reconciles.
I start with what's costing you time or confidence before anyone talks tools. Sometimes it's a report, sometimes an automation, sometimes advice, and sometimes your software already does it and I'll say so.
I connect the systems you already pay for, with logic you can trace and figures checked back to source, so everyone works from the same numbers and the work runs without you.
Clear documentation, training so your team owns it, and support when you need it. No lock-in.
Duncan Boyne is a UK data consultant. He builds Power BI reporting that leaders trust, turning data scattered across ERPs, CRMs, SQL databases and spreadsheets into audit-ready, decision-ready reports. He also builds small automations that take admin off a business's plate, like a 7am email listing overdue invoices, and gives plain-English AI advice based on building with these tools every week. For bigger jobs he works inside your team as an embedded engineer for a fixed block. The reporting work combines proper data modelling underneath with design thinking on top: visual hierarchy, colour theory and accessibility.
A Power BI Health Check is a flat £950, fixed: a scored report card across six areas, eight checks in each, the issues that matter ranked by impact, a practical roadmap and a walkthrough call, all within five working days.
Yes. Sage 200 is a specialism: connecting it to Power BI, modelling it properly, and building financial reporting where the accounts reconcile back to Sage to the penny. There is a live example built on an anonymised Sage 200 estate in the portfolio.
Duncan is based in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, and works with businesses across Norwich, East Anglia and the wider UK, remotely and on-site. Typical clients run on Sage 200, other ERPs, CRMs, SQL databases and spreadsheets across manufacturing, wholesale and distribution, professional services and construction.
The difference is trust and usability. Numbers are traceable from the visual back to source and reconcile to the penny, measures are consistent everywhere they appear, and reports are designed with a clear visual hierarchy so people can see what changed and what is at risk, not just a wall of numbers nobody opens. Accessibility is part of the build too: contrast that passes, alt text on every visual, and colour never carrying a meaning on its own.
That's the point of it. Copilot answers questions using whatever your semantic model tells it, so if measures disagree or numbers don't reconcile, AI repeats those errors faster and with more confidence. Reconciled data, consistent measures and documented logic are the groundwork that makes Copilot safe to switch on, and they're exactly what these engagements build.
Yes, as a rolling monthly care plan in three tiers, cancel any time. Watch is £250 a month: refresh failure monitoring and alerting, a scored monthly health report, and any failure diagnosed within 24 hours, with no build hours included. Care is £750 a month and adds hands-on work: one request at a time, fixes back within 48 hours, up to four hours of build work and a quarterly model review. Partner is £1,500 a month for two requests in flight, up to ten hours and ownership of the reporting roadmap.
Most people start with a free 20-minute intro call. If you already know what you need, the fixed-price starting points are a £950 Power BI Health Check, a £295 automation check or a £195 AI hour, and an embedded engineering block starts with two scoping days at £1,300. The Health Check can be paid online; the others start with a call.
Tell me what's eating your week. I'll tell you whether it's a report, an automation, some AI advice, or nothing you need me for.
