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Replace reporting tools with dashboards built for your KPIs.
Tableau, Power BI, and Looker are powerful tools for data analysts. If you're not a data analyst, you're paying for complexity you don't need. We build reporting dashboards around the specific metrics your team and executives actually check — pulling from your real data sources, refreshing automatically, with no BI license required.
The Problem with Generic BI Tools
You pay for flexibility you use 5% of.
Business intelligence platforms are designed for data teams who need to explore arbitrary datasets. For most businesses, the requirement is simpler: specific metrics, pulled from specific sources, displayed in a specific way for specific people. You don't need a query builder — you need the right numbers on a page that updates itself.
Tableau charges $70–$115/user/month for its full Creator tier. Even the Viewer tier ($15/user/mo) requires a Creator license to publish dashboards. A 10-person team where 2 build reports and 8 view them might pay $1,840–$2,380/month for a reporting tool.
Beyond cost, BI tools require data pipeline infrastructure — connections between your sources and the BI platform, ETL processes to clean and transform the data, and ongoing maintenance when source schemas change. That's engineering overhead most businesses don't budget for.
What Gets Built
Your metrics. Your data sources. No analyst required.
- Executive dashboards with the 8–15 KPIs leadership actually tracks, refreshed automatically
- Operational dashboards for team leads — pipeline health, project status, capacity, support volume
- Financial dashboards pulling from your accounting system — revenue, ARR, margins, burn
- Sales dashboards — quota attainment by rep, pipeline by stage, lead-to-close velocity
- Customer dashboards — churn risk scores, NPS trends, support ticket volume by account
- Multi-source data aggregation — one dashboard pulling from CRM, finance, ops, and support
- Scheduled email reports — key metrics delivered to stakeholders on a defined schedule
- Exportable report views in PDF, CSV, or Excel for board materials and external sharing
Dashboard Types
Built for each audience in your business.
Data Sources
Connected to where your data already lives.
Custom dashboards pull from your existing data sources through direct database connections or API integrations. If your data is in a Postgres database, a Salesforce instance, a QuickBooks account, or a mix of all three — we connect to each source and aggregate the data into your dashboard layer.
When your dashboards are built on top of custom systems we also build (CRM, PM, finance tools), the connection is native — same database, instant access, no ETL pipeline required.
Hosting & Access
No per-seat licensing for viewers.
Custom reporting dashboards run at $50/month on the application server. Every team member who needs dashboard access gets it — there's no seat limit, no viewer tier, no Creator vs. Explorer distinction.
Access control is built into the application: executives see the executive view, sales reps see their own numbers, and team leads see their team's data. Role-based permissions are defined during the build, not managed through a vendor's licensing system.
FAQ
Common questions about custom reporting dashboards.
Can you pull data from multiple sources into one dashboard?+
Yes. Custom dashboards can pull from multiple databases, APIs, and file sources simultaneously. We build a data layer that aggregates and transforms data from your CRM, your finance system, your project management tool, and any other source — then presents it in a single unified view.
How often does the data refresh?+
Refresh intervals are configurable. For real-time operational dashboards, data can update on page load or on a defined interval (every 60 seconds, every 5 minutes). For daily executive dashboards, data is typically aggregated and cached nightly for fast load times.
Can non-technical team members build their own report views?+
We can build a drag-and-drop report builder into the system so power users can configure their own views without developer help. Alternatively, we define a set of standard reports during the build phase and add new ones through periodic update sessions.
What does it cost to replace Tableau or Power BI?+
Tableau charges $70–$115/user/month depending on tier. Power BI is $10/user/month but requires Azure infrastructure and admin overhead. A custom reporting dashboard runs at $50/month for the application server — covering any number of internal viewers — with no per-seat licensing.
ViBe://REPLACE
The metrics you need. No BI license required.
Custom dashboards built around your actual KPIs, connected to your real data sources, accessible to your whole team at $50/month — no per-seat fees, no data analyst required to use them.