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 and cloud data warehouses on PostgreSQL. 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: Access-to-SQL migration at a commercial print shop, pipeline visibility surfaced through the front office.

Business Intelligence & Dashboards

Custom dashboards the front office actually opens, built in instead of licensed by the seat. 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: Real-time P&L dashboards at a $7MM-ARR services company, replacing lagging spreadsheet reporting.

The insight layer

Drowning in data, thirsting for insights.

A dashboard is inventory. It shows you the numbers and leaves you to work out what they mean. The insight layer reads the data for you. Specialized AI analysts, built on the Claude API, watch your operation, surface what changed, and tell you what to do about it, the way a full-time analyst would if you could justify the headcount.

Example briefing

Two accounts slipped under your 18% margin floor this month, both rush-heavy and both missing surcharges. Re-applying standard terms recovers about $4,200 a month. A third account is trending the same direction. Worth a call before it follows them down.

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Scheduled briefings

A written readout in your inbox each week. What changed, what to notice, what to act on.

02

On-demand answers

Ask in plain English. "Which customers lost margin last quarter?" Get the answer and the reason behind it.

03

Anomaly alerts

The system watches the data continuously and flags the thing that needs you before it turns into a problem.

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.