Automated Data Services — Boutique consulting for commodity-margin operators

The next dollar of profit lives on the inside of your company.

A boutique consulting agency for business intelligence, data analysis, and workflow automation. We work inside the operations of commercial print shops and 3PL fulfillment operators, where the next dollar of margin is internal, not external.

Anchor vertical
Commercial print
CSR silos, lagging P&L, press scheduling. Where the bottlenecks are well known and the data is already there.
Emerging vertical
3PL & fulfillment
WMS integration gaps, account manager reporting load, client-facing dashboards. Margins thinner, leverage higher.

Three capabilities. One bottleneck at a time.

We market narrow and work wide. Most engagements combine all three over time. The scope inside a single client grows as new bottlenecks surface.

Workflow & Process Automation

Excel and VBA through n8n through system-driven workflows. We dissolve the bottlenecks where they actually live: the spreadsheet a CSR rebuilds every morning, the invoice run that ties up a bookkeeper three days a month, the manual handoff between order entry and the floor.

Reference: VBA invoicing system at a scaling SMB, recovering significant operating hours per month.

Data Infrastructure

Access-to-SQL Server migrations. Data warehousing. The integration plumbing operators stopped asking for because the last quote came in at six figures. We do it with a single senior engineer on the ground, not a team of five remote analysts.

Reference: GH Printing Access database migrated to SQL Server, pipeline visibility surfaced through the front office.

Business Intelligence & Dashboards

Power BI dashboards the front office actually opens. P&L visibility in the current month, not three weeks after it closed. Analysis that moves a decision in the same week the numbers surface, not a quarterly slide deck nobody reads.

Reference: Power BI rollout at a $7MM-ARR services company, replacing lagging spreadsheet P&L reporting.

First step

A 30-minute call. We name the bottleneck, you decide what's next.

No deck, no boilerplate. Bring one process that costs you the most hours or the most missed revenue. We walk through what a Tier 1 discovery engagement would look like, and you leave with a written summary either way.

Schedule a discovery call Email Kevin directly
Hampshire, IL. Serving the Chicago metro and remote engagements nationwide.