A fractional data analyst for Michigan small businesses
The reporting a full-time analyst would own, for a fixed monthly fee: monthly numbers produced and checked, dashboards kept working, and the data questions that come up between them answered.
Based in metro Detroit, available to companies across Michigan and remotely across the US. Fixed fee, quoted before work starts.
What a fractional analyst covers
Most small companies need a few days of analyst work a month, not a full-time hire. The work is the same either way.
Monthly reporting, produced and checked
The numbers your owner, lender or board look at each month, delivered on a date you agree, with the totals tied back to the books before anyone sees them.
Dashboards that keep working
Refreshes watched, broken numbers caught before a meeting, and changes made when the business changes.
Questions answered
Why margin dipped, which customers are slowing down, what last quarter really looked like: the ad-hoc questions that otherwise wait.
Nothing locked to one person
Everything lives in your accounts and is documented, so you can hire a full-time analyst later and hand them a working setup.
How it starts
Step 1
A 30-minute fit call
What you report on today, who reads it, and where the time goes.
Step 2
One fixed project first
Usually the report that takes the most hours. Scope, price and delivery date are agreed in writing before work starts.
Step 3
Then a monthly fee, if you want it
A fixed monthly scope covering the reports and the questions you expect.
Step 4
Handover whenever you are ready
Documentation and access are yours from day one, so moving the work in-house is a handover, not a rebuild.
What the fit call will ask
- Which reports do you produce each month, and who reads them?
- Where does the data live: accounting system, CRM, spreadsheets?
- Who builds the reports now, and how many hours does it take?
- What question do you wish you could answer and currently cannot?
- Are you planning to hire an analyst in the next year?
What Palavir does not do
Bookkeeping, tax work or month-end close. Palavir works from the numbers your bookkeeper or accountant produces and builds the reporting on top of them.
Fractional analyst questions
What owners and finance leads ask before bringing in a part-time analyst.
Palavir, based in metro Detroit, provides fractional data analyst work for small and mid-size companies: monthly reporting produced and checked, dashboards maintained, and ad-hoc data questions answered, for a fixed monthly fee after a first fixed-price project.
It is a fixed monthly fee, quoted after a 30-minute call, based on the reports and questions you expect each month. It starts with one fixed-price project so you can judge the work first. No hourly billing.
Both, in sequence. The first project is a consulting engagement with a defined result; the monthly work after it is what a part-time analyst on staff would do.
Good. Everything is built in your accounts and documented, so the new hire inherits a working setup. Palavir can help with the handover.
Tell me where your reporting time goes
Thirty minutes is enough to see what you report on, how long it takes, and whether a few days a month of analyst time would cover it.