Power Platform Apps & Automation
Replace paper forms, spreadsheets and email chains with apps and approval workflows staff actually use.
- Inspection, permit and safety forms
- Approval and routing workflows
- Field and mobile data capture
Experience across
- Transportation
- Emergency management
- Safety & security
- Continuity of operations
- Health & human services
What we do
Four ways we help operations teams
Every engagement covers process design, build, training and adoption. You get a working solution your staff can run, not a strategy document.
Data & Analytics
Connect scattered sources into live, role-based Power BI reporting with clear definitions and ownership.
- Data architecture and governance
- Performance and SLA dashboards
- Executive and program reporting
AI for Government Operations
Staff-facing AI agents that check work before it's submitted, keep records accurate and follow up on deadlines.
- Eligibility and case-work checks
- Document review and intake
- Governed Copilot Studio agents
Architecture & Delivery Leadership
Enterprise architecture, roadmaps and hands-on program leadership that carry strategy through to delivery.
- Modernization roadmaps
- Program and project management
- Change management and training
How we work
We look past the technical requirement to the people, processes, risks and controls behind it.
Understand the challenge
We start with your requirements and day-to-day operations: what data the work produces, where the manual steps and gaps are, and which controls have to hold.
Design for the work
We turn real processes into automation-first solutions with business rules, traceability and clear ownership built in, designed around the people who use them.
Deliver lasting value
We deliver working solutions, then train your staff and stay through adoption, so visibility and accountability improve and the manual effort goes away.
Every engagement includes process evaluation, solution design, implementation, training and continuous improvement.
Selected work
Practical solutions for complex operations
Examples of how we turn manual, fragile processes into systems people rely on.
State emergency management · Data integration & Analytics
Integrated data and reporting for emergency management
- Challenge
- Information on emergency operations, damage assessment, grants and finances sat in separate applications and data sources. Leadership needed consistent reporting across them, and the agency’s existing business applications needed ongoing support as requirements changed.
- Approach
- Enterprise data architecture and integration on Power Platform and Dataverse, connecting operational systems to shared reporting:
- Application support: ongoing support for existing Power Platform applications for financial management and for emergency rostering and credentialing.
- Operational reporting: Power BI reporting for emergency operations, including search and rescue and hazardous materials.
- Damage assessment and recovery: integration design and reporting architecture that bring damage assessments, recovery data and declaration tracking together.
- Administrative analytics: clearer visibility into grants, finances, project portfolios, workload and capacity.
- Result
- Reusable data structures and consistent reporting definitions across operations and administration, clearer visibility for leadership into performance, workload and priorities, and business applications that keep pace with the agency’s needs.
- Power Apps
- Dataverse
- Power Pages
- Power Automate
- Power BI
- SharePoint
Professional services firm · Data & Analytics
Financial and workforce reporting leadership can trust
- Challenge
- Reporting on revenue, work in progress, billing, collections, staff productivity and business development had grown complex, with inconsistent calculations and reports that were hard to navigate.
- Approach
- Modernized the firm’s Power BI data model and business rules, not just the dashboards, so every report draws on one consistent set of calculations:
- Financial analytics: revenue, invoicing, billing realization and work in progress.
- Workforce productivity: validated measures for billable hours, capacity, utilization and budgets.
- Business development: attribution for client origination and shared credit, with prior-year comparisons.
- Data management: cleaner semantic models and DAX, data reconciliation, controlled access and simpler navigation.
- Result
- More consistent measures of financial and workforce performance, clearer business development credit, and easy comparison against prior periods and targets.
- Power BI
- DAX
- Semantic models
City medical examiner · Data integration
Automated daily situation reporting during COVID-19
- Challenge
- During the COVID-19 response, the daily situation report was compiled by hand from several disconnected SQL systems and Excel reports, taking up two staff members every day.
- Approach
- An on-premises data gateway connected the separate SQL systems and Excel reporting to Power BI as one consistent picture, feeding response-planning reports and an automated daily situation report.
- Result
- The daily situation report runs automatically, freeing two staff members for other response work.
- Power BI
- On-premises data gateway
- SQL
- Excel
City emergency management · Apps & Analytics
Procurement and preparedness tools on Power Platform
- Challenge
- Several teams needed better tools for core work, from contract procurement on a basic SharePoint list to preparedness exercises tracked in Excel.
- Approach
- Three focused projects on the agency’s existing Microsoft 365 platform:
- Procurement contract management: restructured the contract data in SharePoint, then added a canvas app with built-in business rules and routing, Power Automate flows and improved Power BI reporting.
- USAR grant tracking: a Power BI dashboard for tracking urban search and rescue grants.
- Exercise tracking: moved exercise data out of Excel into a structured SharePoint list with notifications and a Power BI dashboard.
- Result
- More efficient workflows, clearer status and next steps for each area, and coordinated briefings that kept leadership informed.
- Power Apps
- Power Automate
- SharePoint
- Power BI
Our team
Based in Ashland, Virginia
A small senior team: you work directly with the people who design and build your solution.
Matthew Smith
Founder, CEO & Principal
Enterprise architect turning complex data and technology challenges into practical solutions.
Kiere El-Shafie
Chief Engineering Officer
Engineering executive with 20+ years building secure, scalable software platforms, including two startup exits.
Brooke Willemstyn
Senior Project Manager
Transformation leader driving complex programs, modernization initiatives and agile delivery.
Miriam Smith
Chief Administrative Officer
Operations leader keeping the team organized and efficient so clients keep moving forward.
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