NorthPeak BI builds and runs Power BI reporting for small and medium businesses. You get dashboards your team actually opens, refreshed automatically, maintained month after month — for less than a part-time hire.
Start with a Data Audit & Roadmap from $499 — credited in full toward your first build.
The month closed at $482K — $32K ahead of the $450K goal. This wasn’t one big order landing late: revenue climbed every month since May, and margin improved while it grew. Here’s the headline; the chapters that follow pull it apart.
Direct still carries the month — $222K of the $482K.
Ontario alone is roughly 3× Quebec — opportunity or imbalance? Chapter 2 digs in.
A beat you can trust: growth and margin rose together, across every channel. The one soft spot is open orders, down 3.1% — worth watching before it becomes next month’s story.
Pull the $482K apart and a pattern emerges: Furniture is 35% of revenue, and nearly half of it arrives through the Direct channel. Orders tell the healthier story — 1,170 completed at a $412 average, with returns down to 2.14%.
| Category | Direct | Wholesale | Online | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Furniture | 78 | 62 | 28 | 168 |
| Electronics | 58 | 38 | 28 | 124 |
| Lighting | 36 | 24 | 22 | 82 |
| Accessories | 28 | 16 | 14 | 58 |
| Services | 22 | 14 | 14 | 50 |
| Total | 222 | 154 | 106 | 482 |
Read it Online is Furniture’s weakest channel ($28K of $168K) but Lighting’s most balanced one — the mix, not the total, is the story.
The top 5 products deliver $180K — 37% of all revenue.
| Rep | Orders | Revenue |
|---|---|---|
| Sarah Chen | 284 | $118K |
| Marcus Lee | 261 | $104K |
| Priya Patel | 238 | $97K |
| Jordan Ellis | 204 | $86K |
| Alex Tremblay | 183 | $77K |
| Total | 1,170 | $482K |
A tight spread — top to fifth is $41K, not a one-person show.
Revenue is concentrated but not fragile: one category leads, yet every channel and every rep contributes. The clearest upside is Furniture online — the biggest category in its weakest channel.
Furniture sells the most and keeps the least: 32¢ of every dollar. Services sells the least and keeps 59¢. Total gross profit still reached $186.2K — but where the next dollar of growth comes from matters more than how big it is.
Services margin — the highest in the business. On just $50K of revenue, Services banked $29.5K of gross profit. Small today; the most efficient growth lever on this page.
Furniture + Electronics still deliver 56% of profit — volume counts, it just isn’t the whole story.
| Category | Revenue | Margin | Profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Furniture | $168K | 32.0% | $53.8K |
| Electronics | $124K | 41.0% | $50.8K |
| Lighting | $82K | 38.0% | $31.2K |
| Accessories | $58K | 36.0% | $20.9K |
| Services | $50K | 59.0% | $29.5K |
| Total | $482K | 38.6% | $186.2K |
Chase the next dollar where it keeps the most: steer growth toward Services and Electronics, and treat Furniture’s 32% as a pricing or cost problem to fix — not just a sales target to raise.
One good month is luck; six is a trend. Revenue beat the prior year in every month from May to October, ending +17.0% year over year. If the trajectory simply holds, the next three months project $499K → $512K → $534K.
The dashed line is a trend forecast from the May–Oct run — every projected month sits above the $450K target.
That’s the full arc: a target beaten, a mix understood, a margin lever found, and a forecast to plan against — four chapters, one story, every number traceable to the same data. Your report could read like this, with your numbers.
Most SMBs don’t need a data department. They need their sales, operations, and finance numbers in one place, correct, and current. That’s exactly what we build and run for you.
Decision-ready dashboards for owners and managers — sales, margin, inventory, operations, and finance in one view.
Replace the weekly spreadsheet scramble. We connect your sources once and your reports refresh themselves.
An ongoing reporting partner, not a one-off project. We maintain your reports and send you what changed — and why.
A BI solution isn’t about prettier charts. It’s about walking into strategy, pricing, and hiring decisions with the number in front of you instead of a gut feeling — and spotting problems while they’re still small enough to fix. Here’s what that looks like in practice:
The questions and figures above come from the sample report at the top of this page. Your dashboard answers the same questions with your own numbers.
Automation we’ve delivered cut weekly manual reporting from 10+ hours to about 1 hour — time your team gets back for work that actually grows the business.
One data model behind every report, so sales, finance, and operations stop reconciling three conflicting spreadsheets — and start deciding instead.
Refreshes run automatically, so a slipping margin or a missed target surfaces within days — while there’s still time left in the quarter to do something about it.
Fixed-scope project packages to get you started, and flat monthly plans once your reporting is live. No hourly surprises unless you ask for them.
Know exactly where your reporting stands — and what to build first.
Your first proper Power BI dashboard, live and in your team’s hands.
A complete reporting system for businesses outgrowing spreadsheets.
Your reports stay live, current, and correct — we watch them so you don’t have to.
Everything in Essentials, plus a monthly read on what your numbers are telling you.
Your on-call BI team: ongoing build capacity plus deeper analysis, every month.
Ad hoc work. One-off fixes, a second opinion on an existing report, or extra dashboards outside a plan — billed hourly, quoted up front.
Ask about ad hoc workAll prices in CAD, plus HST where applicable. Project scope is confirmed in a written quote before any work begins — the “from” price is the price for the scope described.
If someone on your team rebuilds the same spreadsheets every week, that time is already a line item — it’s just hidden. Move the sliders to your numbers.
At 10 hours a week of manual reporting, automation on the scale we’ve delivered before would cut that to roughly 1 hour a week — about $2,338 a month of staff time freed up at $60/hour.
Illustrative estimate based on a typical automation outcome (10+ hrs/week → ~1 hr/week). Your audit confirms what’s realistic for your data.
Compare that with a managed plan from $399/month — your reporting maintained, monitored, and improved, with the hours handed back to your team.
Book a discovery callA fixed, transparent process — you always know what happens next and what it costs before we start.
A free 30-minute call about your business, your current reports, and where the numbers hurt. No pitch deck, no obligation.
Free · 30 minutesWe review your data sources and existing reporting, then give you a prioritised plan with fixed pricing for the build.
From $499 · credited to your buildWe build your dashboard or full setup, validate every number against your source data, and train your team to use it.
Fixed quote before we startOn a monthly plan we keep everything refreshed, maintained, and improving — with insights delivered to you, not buried in a portal.
From $399/monthNorthPeak BI is led by an enterprise Power BI reporting specialist who runs reporting at scale for a living: a reporting suite spanning six business domains, opened more than 7,000 times a month by executives and operational leaders who depend on it to make decisions.
That experience — deep SQL, GCP/BigQuery data platforms, and the validation and reconciliation standards used in Canadian banking — is now available to small and medium businesses that need the same quality of reporting without a full-time BI hire.
Every engagement is handled directly by the specialist. No hand-offs, no account managers, no offshore relay — the person on your discovery call is the person who builds your reports.
Talk to the specialistBook a free 30-minute discovery call. We’ll talk through your current reporting, what’s costing you time, and whether NorthPeak is the right fit — honestly, even if the answer is “not yet.”
Book a discovery callPrefer email? hello@northpeakbi.com