Your operations team should see the business in real time, not in last night's export.
An admin dashboard built for your specific data model gives your team the operational visibility they need without the Monday morning spreadsheet ritual. Live metrics, user management, workflow controls, and reporting — all in one place, all current. Fixed scope, fixed price.
Your operations team pulls data from multiple systems to produce a weekly report that's out of date by the time it's read. You need a live operational view of the business.
Admin dashboards built with generic BI tools (Tableau, Looker, Metabase) answer different questions than operational dashboards do. BI tools are for analysis — understanding what happened and why. Operational dashboards are for action — understanding what's happening now and what needs to be done. The difference is the data latency (BI tools query data warehouses with minutes-to-hours of lag; operational dashboards query production databases directly), the interaction model (BI tools are read-only; operational dashboards include action buttons and workflow controls), and the user persona (BI tools are for analysts; operational dashboards are for operators).
Building an operational admin dashboard in a BI tool produces a dashboard that shows the right data but can't do anything with it. Clicking on a user record in Tableau produces a table row; clicking on a user record in a custom admin dashboard can trigger an account action, send a message, update a status, or view the user's complete history — all from one screen.
The business operations that benefit most from a custom admin dashboard: subscription businesses (churn prevention requires seeing users who are at risk before they cancel); marketplaces (order management requires acting on exceptions, not just viewing them); and any business with manual exception handling (fraud review, refund approvals, escalation management).
A custom admin dashboard with live data from your production systems — user management, key metrics, operational controls, and exportable reports — built specifically for how your team runs the business.
Live metrics from production data
Key metrics calculated directly from the production database — no ETL pipeline, no data warehouse, no overnight refresh. The numbers on the dashboard are current.
User and account management
Search and filter users by any attribute. View complete user history (signups, transactions, support tickets, usage events) in a single screen. Account management actions (suspend, unsuspend, adjust subscription, add credit, send notification) available from the user detail view.
Operational queues
Lists of items requiring action — flagged transactions, pending approvals, support escalations — with the context and controls to action them without switching to another tool.
Configurable chart library
Time-series charts for metrics that trend over time. Funnel charts for conversion analysis. Bar and pie charts for distribution analysis. All built on Recharts with a consistent design system.
Export and reporting
CSV and PDF export for any data view. Scheduled reports that deliver key metrics to stakeholders' inboxes on a configured schedule. Built on Next.js, Postgres, TypeScript, Clerk, Recharts.
One honest number to start.
Fixed-scope, fixed-price. The number below is the starting point — final scope is built from your brief.
A custom admin dashboard with live data from your production systems — user management, key metrics, operational controls, and exportable reports — built specifically for how your team runs the business.
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
An admin dashboard is a defined product. The metrics, the user management features, and the operational workflows are specified before development starts. Fixed scope, fixed price.
Related engagements.
Questions, answered.
Yes — external system integrations (Stripe for billing data, Intercom for support data, Salesforce for CRM data) are common admin dashboard components. The integration scope is specified in the project specification.
A configurable chart system with a no-code interface for adding new metrics and charts is possible but adds to the project scope. The standard implementation includes a predefined set of charts with the ability for developers to add new ones. Adding a no-code chart builder is a post-launch scope addition.
Role-based access is standard in every admin dashboard build. Support agents see support data; billing teams see billing data; managers see everything. Sensitive operations (account suspension, refund approval) require elevated roles.
A custom admin dashboard with live metrics, user management, operational queues, and reporting typically runs $25k–$45k. External system integrations add to the scope. Fixed-price.
6 to 10 weeks for a production admin dashboard from specification to live operation.
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.