Business Intelligence

AIGard builds reporting and self-serve analytics that give teams and executives a reliable view of the business. We design the data model, dashboards and access rules together.

The work typically covers:

• BI strategy and tool selection
• Semantic and data model design
• Executive and operational dashboards
• Self-serve reporting setup
• Row-level security
• Migration between BI tools

Business Intelligence is usually the right investment in one or more of these situations:

• Reports are built by hand each month
• Dashboards exist but no one trusts them
• You're consolidating BI tools
• Executives need a single view across departments

On a 30-minute scoping call we confirm whether it fits your case and recommend a team shape and first milestones.

The right business intelligence tool depends on your technology stack, your users and licensing. AIGard compares the options against your needs and recommends one.

Tool selection is part of our BI strategy work, and we consider it together with the data model, dashboards and access rules the tool has to support. Where you are consolidating several BI tools, we can also migrate reports to the one selected.

Yes, AIGard migrates reports from one BI tool to another. We rationalize the reports first so that you migrate only what is used.

A migration is a practical opportunity to retire reports that are no longer used and to address dashboards no one trusts. We review what exists before recommending what to keep, rebuild or drop, and design the data model, dashboards and access rules together in the new tool.

With the decisions the business needs to make, then the data required to support them.

We assess your sources, quality and existing platforms first, and tell you plainly what your data can and cannot support before recommending an architecture.

PII masking, encryption and audit logging are built into data work, and engineers operate inside your environment under least-privilege access.

Data-handling requirements are agreed during scoping and checked before release.

For Business Intelligence, AIGard engineers typically work with Power BI, Tableau, Snowflake, BigQuery, dbt and Databricks.

The stack is selected to fit the systems you already run, and engineers are matched to it before they join.

Business Intelligence is available through any of AIGard’s three engagement models: staff augmentation, where engineers join your team; a dedicated team that runs the workstream; or software outsourcing, where AIGard delivers a defined project.

The choice depends on how much of the delivery you want to manage, and it can change later under the same agreement.

Engineers typically start within two to four weeks of the scoping call. The exact date depends on the roles, seniority and number of people required.

We confirm a realistic start date in writing before you commit, and you meet the proposed engineers before work begins.

AIGard engineers typically cost 30–50% less than the fully loaded cost of a comparable US-based hire, with no recruiting fees, benefits overhead or insurance costs on your side.

The figure for a specific engagement depends on the model, the roles, the seniority mix and the size of the team. We issue a written proposal after the scoping call, so the commercial terms are agreed before any work starts.

NDAs are signed before any access is given, and engineers work inside your environment under least-privilege access, with permissions limited to their responsibilities.

Access is reviewed as roles change and removed when work ends. Our practices align with ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR and HIPAA, with PII masking, encryption and audit logging built into data work. We review your access policies, data-handling needs and vendor requirements during scoping.

You do. Intellectual property assignment is written into every contract, in every engagement model.

That covers source code, designs, documentation, data, models and prompts produced for you. Third-party components and their licenses are identified, so ownership is clear at handover.