You don't need another .pbix file duct-taped onto a CSV. You need a Power BI developer who designs a proper tabular model, writes DAX that actually scales, sets up row-level security your auditor will sign off, and delivers reports your executives open twice a day — not twice a quarter. That's what we ship.
$18/hr
Starting rate
72 hrs
Free PoC dashboard
500M+
Rows/model in production
Brand-new Power BI deployment? Slow semantic model? Fabric migration? Brief us in 60 seconds. We'll match a senior Power BI developer in 24 hours and ship a working dashboard in 72 hours — free.
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Six engagements we've closed in the last twelve months. None are "we pointed Power BI at a spreadsheet and called it a dashboard."
Star-schema fact / dimension design, calculation groups, aggregations, incremental refresh policies, composite models with Direct Lake + Import hybrid, perspectives for departmental consumers. 500M-row fact table with sub-second measure response.
Lakehouse ingestion via Pipelines + Dataflows Gen2, medallion layer with notebooks, Direct Lake semantic model, certified Warehouse as SQL endpoint, Power BI reports with OneLake shortcuts. Governance via Fabric domains + Purview labels.
Boardroom-grade executive dashboards — P&L, cash flow, working capital, customer cohort, employee attrition — with dynamic row-level security by region / business unit / legal entity via Entra ID security groups and USERPRINCIPALNAME.
We pick up semantic models that take 2 minutes to load a page and cut them to 2 seconds. Query plan analysis in DAX Studio, storage-engine rewrites, aggregation tables, star-schema refactors, and Performance Analyzer-driven visual changes.
Migrations from Tableau, Qlik Sense, QlikView, Cognos BI. Semantic model redesigned (not copy-pasted), visualizations rebuilt natively or with Deneb/Vega-Lite, analyst community retrained, published catalogue on Power BI Service with deployment pipelines.
Customer-facing analytics embedded in SaaS apps with app-owns-data token flows, workspace-per-tenant isolation, custom theming, export to PDF / Excel, and capacity sizing that keeps unit economics positive as tenant count grows.
Hands-on production experience across modelling, DAX, governance, embedding and Fabric — not just Power BI Desktop.
Every project starts with a free 72-hour PoC dashboard — real data, real semantic model, real visualizations — so you see the approach before committing.
30-minute scoping call. We map your data sources (SQL, SAP, Dataverse, Snowflake, Salesforce), current BI state (nothing, Tableau, legacy Power BI, Fabric), capacity edition, and governance posture. Then we pull 1–2 senior developers.
Working dashboard against your real data. One fact table, 3–4 dimensions, 5–8 measures, basic RLS, published to your Service. 30-minute walkthrough at the end with performance metrics and a cost projection.
Fixed-scope build or dedicated developer model. Weekly UAT cycles with your business users, model versioning via .pbip + git, deployment pipelines for Dev → UAT → Prod.
Either a clean handover to your internal team with training, runbooks and a certified dataset catalogue — or continued fractional BI engineering as your governed centre of excellence.
Three engagement models. No licensing markup, no capacity reseller margin, no minimum term beyond the current sprint.
72 hours
Free
One dashboard end-to-end, against your real data, published to your Service. Zero commitment.
4–16 weeks
$18K – $250K
Defined deliverable, fixed price, fixed timeline. Best when scope is clear — departmental BI, Fabric lakehouse, enterprise rollout.
Monthly
$18 – $85/hr
Embed a senior Power BI developer in your team. Best when the BI backlog is continuous or you need a fractional BI lead.
We're not a staffing agency with a BI page. Microsoft data is a practice — we've been on SSAS Tabular since 2014 and Power BI since public preview.
Every developer writes a time-intelligence measure and a calculation group during interview — no generic SQL trivia.
We'd rather publish a working report to your Service than deliver a capability deck. If the PoC isn't great, no invoice.
We'll tell you when PPU is enough and Premium is overkill — or when Fabric F4 saves you 30% vs P1. We size for reality, not your MS rep's target.
We ship a certified dataset before building any report. Business users get a single source of truth, not a proliferation of conflicting .pbix files.
An Excel analyst builds flat reports that die when the data model doubles in size. A Power BI developer designs a tabular semantic model — proper star-schema fact and dimension tables, calculation groups, row-level security, incremental refresh policies — and writes DAX that scales. The deliverable is a governed dataset that every team in the company can point a report at, not a .pbix file stored in someone's OneDrive.
Both. Our developers have shipped on Premium Capacity (P SKUs), Premium Per User, and Microsoft Fabric (F SKUs) with Lakehouses, Warehouses, and Direct Lake datasets. We pick the edition based on your workload — Fabric is the right call if you also want ingestion, lakehouse storage, and notebooks in one capacity; Premium Capacity is fine when all you need is BI at scale.
Yes. Complex-DAX tuning is a speciality of ours. We profile queries with Performance Analyzer and DAX Studio, identify expensive storage-engine vs formula-engine passes, replace iterators with aggregations where possible, design the right calculation groups and aggregation tables, and ship measures that run in milliseconds on 500M-row models. We also audit existing semantic models and deliver a remediation plan.
Yes — RLS, OLS, dynamic RLS via USERPRINCIPALNAME / customer tables, Entra ID security groups, Premium workspace deployment pipelines, certified vs promoted datasets, sensitivity labels, and integration with Microsoft Purview. We also set up the Power BI Activity Log to Event Hub feed so your security team has full telemetry on who saw what.
Dedicated developer from $18/hr (offshore mid) to $85/hr (US senior architect). A typical new department-level Power BI deployment — semantic model, 3–5 reports, RLS, gateway setup, deployment pipeline — is fixed-price between $18K and $60K. Enterprise Fabric deployments with lakehouse, medallion ETL and centre-of-excellence governance run $80K–$250K.
Yes. We've run migrations from Tableau (using the Tableau to Power BI migration toolkit as a starting point), Qlik Sense and QlikView, and Cognos BI. We redesign the semantic model (you don't just port Tableau's extracts directly), reproduce visualizations with appropriate Power BI custom visuals or ADX / Vega-Lite, and retrain your analyst community on the new authoring flow.
Yes. Pixel-perfect paginated reports in Report Builder for operational / regulatory reporting that must look exactly a certain way. Power BI Embedded for SaaS and customer-facing analytics — with the right capacity sizing, user-owns-data / app-owns-data token flows, workspace-per-tenant isolation, and custom branding removed from the Power BI chrome.
Brief us on your BI backlog. We'll match a senior Power BI developer in 24 hours and publish a working dashboard to your Service by the end of the week — free.