Build a custom reporting dashboard — the metrics your business actually needs.
Looker, Tableau, and Metabase are BI tools. If your business metrics are specific, your data is in multiple sources, or your team needs a white-labeled report view for clients, a custom reporting dashboard is the right answer.
Operations leader or founder who needs business metrics in a single view — from multiple data sources, with custom calculations, for internal or client-facing use
Looker, Tableau, and Metabase are BI platforms. They're right for exploratory data analysis where the question isn't known in advance. They're expensive for what most businesses need: a fixed set of important metrics, updated daily, visible to the right people.
When custom reporting is better than Looker:
- The metrics are defined and stable — not exploratory
- Non-technical users need to see the data without knowing SQL
- Client-facing reports need your branding, not Looker's
- Data needs to be combined from sources that don't exist in a warehouse
Custom reporting dashboard value: Built for your specific metrics. Your terminology. Your calculation logic. Embedded in your application or white-labeled for your clients.
Custom reporting dashboard deployed — key metrics from defined data sources, with custom calculations and white-labeled presentation
Data connectors
API connections to source systems (Stripe, QuickBooks, custom DB)
Metric definitions
your KPIs with your calculation logic
Chart library
line, bar, donut, funnel, table using Recharts
Time range controls
daily, weekly, monthly, custom range
Export
PDF and CSV export of report data
Scheduled reports
email delivery of key reports on schedule
One honest number to start.
Fixed-scope, fixed-price. The number below is the starting point — final scope is built from your brief.
Custom reporting dashboard deployed — key metrics from defined data sources, with custom calculations and white-labeled presentation
Three steps, every time.
The same repeatable engagement on every project. No surprises, no mystery, no billable ambiguity.
Brief & discovery.
We send you questions, then get on a call. Output: a written scope with every step, feature, and integration listed.
Build & ship.
Fixed schedule, weekly reviews. No scope creep unless you change the scope — and if you do, we reprice it transparently.
Warranty & retainer.
30-day warranty on every launch. Most clients stay on a monthly retainer for ongoing features and maintenance.
Why Fixed-Price Matters Here
Reporting dashboards have defined metrics and data source connections. Fixed-price from the spec.
Related engagements.
Questions, answered.
Recharts (React-based, MIT license) for most dashboards. Tremor for quick opinionated dashboards. Victory or Nivo for complex custom visualizations. Choice depends on the spec.
Yes. Each data source has a defined connector. Metrics can combine data from multiple sources with scheduled sync to an internal cache table.
Tell Ryel about your project.
Describe what you’re building and what outcome you need. You’ll have a written, fixed-price scope within the week.