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power bi & fabric advisory

power bi and fabric, done with you.

I help your team get more capable with Power BI and Fabric, and keep the work yours, even as AI takes on the typing.

I'm Alan. I've spent five years with teams adopting Power BI, and a decade building software before that.

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in practice

case file

a city-centre museum & gallery

From a visitor number written on a whiteboard each day to reports the team reads in Teams and runs themselves - three systems, one shared model underneath.

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what i do

same ownership question, whichever door you come in by.

power bi & fabric, done with you

Your reporting works, but the team can't fully own it - a black box only whoever built it can safely touch. Embedded advisory, reporting strategy and architecture review - I help the whole team feel like they've got it, so a small team gets further and the know-how stays with you when I leave.

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ai fit for teams

You're licensed for Copilot, and it hasn't quite paid off - some of it sitting idle, some of it writing DAX nobody can fully vouch for. What pays off is getting genuinely good with AI without handing over your judgement, so a stretched team does more, and better. I help you work out what to hand over, what to keep, and who checks what.

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If either of those sounds like your team, I'm happy to talk it through - nothing to prepare.

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how i work

the answers are yours

I help your team reach the answers that fit how you actually work, instead of arriving with mine. Understand your own models and data well enough to judge what's safe to hand to a tool.

what not to automate

Knowing what not to automate matters as much as knowing what to. As the tools take on more of the build, the discipline is choosing which decisions you let them make - and staying conscious of where you've made the call.

mental models first

When a tool writes the DAX or builds the model, someone on your team still has to read it back and know whether it holds up. I help them build that judgement, so they catch a number that only looks right before it goes out.

Alan writing at a café table outdoors, coffee beside him

ai will build whatever you ask. someone still has to know what to ask for.

Alan outdoors among trees, smiling, looking off-camera

who you'd be working with.

burningsuit is me - Alan. I'll go as deep into a model as anyone, and I'm happy to be the one who does, so your team can stay on the actual job. But the depth was never the point. What I keep coming back to is the people using these tools: what they still need to understand, own and verify when AI does more of the building, so the work stays theirs.

There's more behind it - where burningsuit came from, and a talk I give about being responsible for work you've handed off.

the longer story