Analytics and Reporting
When you can’t trust the numbers, you can’t trust the decisions.
Disconnected systems, manual spreadsheets, and inconsistent reporting create confusion, slow decision-making, and increase the risk of costly mistakes.
We help you connect your data sources, automate reporting, and establish a trusted single source of truth, so your leadership team can focus on driving growth rather than questioning the data.
If your leadership team is debating the accuracy of a report rather than making decisions from it, your reporting process is broken.
You don't need another expensive dashboard platform or system, you need a structured strategy for what to measure, where to store it, and how to automate it.
Who We Help
Startups & Early-Stage Teams
Build it right from day one. INFOSMITH is helping you avoid accruing technical debt and bad reporting habits before you scale.
Key focus areas:
- What to collect: Identify the vital metrics for your industry that investors and founders focus on.
- “Software agnostic” tech stack guidance: Choose the right scalable software and storage options without overspending.
- Metric blueprinting: Establish baseline KPIs and OKRs tailored to your business model.
- Futureproofing: Build a robust data architecture designed to handle your growth over the next 3 to 5 years.
Growing Organisations
Eliminate friction and human error. INFOSMITH is bringing in a fresh set of expert eyes to unify reporting decks and streamline complex workflows to prepare for growth.
Key Focus Areas:
- Error reduction: Replace risky manual spreadsheets with automated, push-button and self-service reporting.
- Time recovery: Reclaim hundreds of team hours wasted on monthly manual compilation (average 80% time saved).
- Multi-source integration: Unify data from separate platforms into one automated single source of truth.
- Fresh deck review: Uncover missing insights, redundant slides, and blind spots in your current reporting.
Enterprise & Business Groups
Targeted problem solving and strategic alignment. INFOSMITH is providing specialised guidance for complex organisational structures and changing compliance landscapes.
Key Focus Areas:
- Specific problem solving: Diagnose and fix persistent data bottlenecks in and across business units.
- Cross-department standardisation: Align multidisciplinary teams around unified reporting standards and definitions.
- Governance & compliance: Navigate industry changes, data privacy mandates, and audit requirements.
- Executive mentorship: Upskill internal managers on best practices for data storytelling and board reporting.
Service features
Our Analytics and Reporting consultation bridges the gap between raw data and executive decision-making, giving you guaranteed clarity on your numbers and full confidence in your process through:
- KPI & OKR alignment: We filter out the noise to define board-ready metrics guaranteed to deliver actionable insight.
- Software & storage architecture: Objective, non-jargon advice on selecting tools, databases, and modern analytics platforms.
- Single source of truth: Designing data flows where every team works off the exact same verified numbers.
- Automation & bottleneck removal: Identifying repetitive manual steps and applying simple, powerful automation.
Delivery Method: Focused Half-Day Strategy Sessions
Our modular approach gives you the flexibility to access high-impact strategic support without disrupting your day-to-day operations. Each half-day session focuses on a defined stage, helping your team turn insight into clear, practical action.
We recommend a minimum of three sessions for most organisations, with at least one dedicated to each key stage (depending on the breadth of the scope).
This creates the space to explore your needs, develop the right strategy and agree actionable next steps. The scope can be adapted to reflect your organisation’s size, complexity, and industry.
Investment: Starting from £1,150 (incl. VAT) for three half-day strategy sessions
Step 1: Agreeing on scope
1.1 Discovery & audit
Mapping current data sources, tools, decks, and process bottlenecks.
1.2 Strategy & architecture
Designing KPI/OKR frameworks, software stack options, and workflows with single sources of truth.
Step 2: Planning
2.1 Aims for “ideal state”
What is achievable, including the quick wins and “must haves”
2.2 Action roadmap & handover
Presenting implementation steps, automation plan, and team guidance.