Enterprise AI and analytics, right-sized for small and mid-sized businesses.

I'm Josh Elberg, founder of Palavir. I do the analytics and AI work, and the data engineering that makes it possible. Real implementation, not a slide deck. 15 years of enterprise data work at Home Depot, MRM, Merkle, and PLI, now applied directly to your business.

Analytics, AI, and the data work behind them. Engagements from a single day to multi-month builds. Based in metro Detroit, serving nationally.

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How we work

Start with a paid day

Fixed fee, no proposal cycle. I go into your systems and your data and come back with what is actually broken, what it is worth fixing, and what it takes. You keep the findings whether or not we go further.

Then build it in milestones

Reporting and BI models, CRM and pricing automation, data pipelines, AI workflows. Scoped one milestone at a time, so you see the work and approve the next piece before it starts.

You work with me, not a bench

Same person from the first call to the last delivery. Engagements have run from a single day to multi-month builds, at organizations from 150 people to multi-billion-dollar operators.

Selected work

AI implementation and business intelligence engagements, written up as what changed

AI & Automation

Conversational Intake to Jira for Predictable Analytics Delivery

Request chaos → Structured, AI-assisted intake

Platform Modernization

Rebuilding the Analytics Foundation: Lakehouse + Trustworthy Reporting

Spreadsheet chaos → Live dashboards, trusted data

Operations & Finance

CRM Plus Commodity-Pricing Automation for a Metals Distributor

Reps pricing by hand in a half-configured CRM → A CRM that prices itself

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Featured research

Original analysis using real federal data and open methodology

968K PPP loans analyzed

State of Fraud in America

ML models on federal data found 19,371 anomalous loans worth $32.4B. 5 of the top 10 corporate anomalies had confirmed fraud.

4,445 hospitals clustered

Hospital Quality & Survival

Unsupervised ML on CMS data reveals which hospital characteristics actually predict better outcomes.

5,446 sites scanned

ADA Lawsuit Risk by Industry

Real accessibility scan data across 12 industries showing which sectors face the highest compliance risk.

433-node graph

Federal Spending Network

Force-directed network visualization of federal spending flows across agencies and recipients.

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Software we build and run

8 products I built and run

Brighten

Stop losing great people to poor recognition

FindGrants

Find grants that match your organization

Area Recon

Know your market before you commit

SkipEntry

Upload messy PDFs. Get clean data.

OnePageAudit

Find accessibility issues before lawyers do

GovBids

Government contracts, decoded

NewFilings

Fresh business leads from state filings

BuzzwordBingo

Turn boring meetings into a game

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Built by a practitioner, not a consultancy

15 years of enterprise data work at Home Depot, MRM, Merkle, and PLI. Now building production AI products and publishing original data research independently.

The combination of enterprise depth and builder mentality means the work is practical, not theoretical. Everything ships.

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Years in enterprise data

Data reports published

Live products

Service area

National

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