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Decision mapping
What decisions does each audience make weekly, monthly, quarterly? Numbers serve decisions.
KPI consulting · Across Ohio
KPI Consulting — Ohio
KPI systems and dashboards leadership actually opens. Define the few numbers that matter, build the views, install the rhythm. Serving owners and leadership teams across Ohio.
KPI systems built around decisions
Most Across Ohio dashboards die in week three because they show 40 charts and answer no questions. KPI systems work when they're built backward from decisions — what does leadership need to decide weekly, monthly, quarterly? — and not from "what data do we have?"
I build KPI systems with owner, leadership, and team views, each tuned to the decisions that audience actually makes. The few numbers (5–10, not 40) that move the business. Source-of-truth definitions reconciled across departments so the data stops being debated.
Build covers data sources, modeling, refresh cadence, BI tool or custom dashboard layer, threshold alerts, weekly summaries, and the operating rhythm that turns the data into decisions.
- The few KPIs that drive the business
- Source-of-truth definitions across functions
- Owner, leadership, and team dashboard views
- Threshold alerts and weekly auto-summaries
- Operating cadence using the dashboards
- Quarterly KPI review and recalibration
Why work with James
Operator background, not a deck-only consultant. Every credibility marker below is something I've actually built or run — not theory.
10+ Years Building Businesses
Multi-Company Owner
Software Developer
AI Platform Builder
Business Systems Architect
Sales Process Designer
Marketing Strategist
KPI & Operations Expert
How engagements run
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Pick the KPIs
5–10 numbers that actually move the business. Everything else is a chart, not a KPI.
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Source the data
Wire CRM, finance, ops, marketing into a clean layer. Resolve definition conflicts.
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Build the views
Owner, leadership, team. Each tuned to the audience and decisions.
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Install the cadence
Weekly scan, monthly review, quarterly recalibration.
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Iterate
Cut KPIs that aren't driving decisions. Add ones that are.
What this looks like in practice
Anonymized examples of engagements that fit this scope. Names and identifying details withheld.
Owner dashboard for a multi-line business
Three product lines, no daily owner view. Built a one-screen owner dashboard — revenue, margin, pipeline, cash, ops health by line. Owner now starts every day with a 10-minute scan.
Sales leadership scorecard
Three systems, three different numbers. Reconciled definitions, built a single forecast and rep performance view, installed a weekly review. Forecast accuracy improved immediately.
Operations KPI system
Service business with no real ops metrics. Built capacity, utilization, on-time delivery, and quality dashboards. Ops leadership shifted from firefighting to managing.
Frequently asked questions
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Reporting layer and executive dashboards.
CRM Consulting
Clean CRM data underpins clean dashboards.
Sales Consulting
Sales KPIs and the operating rhythm to use them.
Operations Consulting
Ops KPIs and capacity reporting.
Fractional COO
Operating leadership that runs the KPI rhythm.
AI Automation
AI-powered alerts and summaries on top of KPIs.
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