Data, analytics and AI
Reporting you can trace. Software built to hand over.
Tableau and Power BI reporting, data pipelines, machine learning and AI where the decision stays with a person; systems development, integrations and Azure migrations — for companies with 15 to 500 employees.
Book an assessment call30 minutes · with the engineer who would scope the work
one-page recap within 2 business days of a call that progresses
What we do
Data Engineering & Analytics
One set of numbers everyone agrees on. Warehouse modelling, pipelines, scorecards and KPIs, Power BI or Tableau reporting, and machine learning where the decision stays with a person.
Automation & Integration
Connect the systems that do not talk, and retire the manual re-keying between them. Power Platform, APIs and integration work sized to pay for itself — including AI assistants inside the workflow, with a person approving what ships.
Custom Software & Data Products
When the off-the-shelf answer does not exist, we build and hand over the one that does — in your repository, under your license, documented for the team that inherits it.
Azure & Microsoft Migration
Move servers, SQL Server databases, file shares and Microsoft 365 into Azure — assessed first, migrated in waves, with a tested rollback at every step.
We run on what we sell
Most firms in this market ask you to trust a slide. We would rather you check something.
This website is the proof. The page you are reading is a static site built from Markdown in a Git repository, deployed to Azure Static Web Apps by a GitHub Actions pipeline. Every change is a reviewed commit. There is no CMS to patch and no server to own. It is a small version of the delivery model we would set up for you, and you are looking at it.
We ran our own Microsoft 365 tenant through the assessment we sell. Before recommending a tenant review to anyone else, we ran one on ourselves — the full identity, licensing, sharing, device and email-authentication review. It found real problems in our own tenant, which is what an honest assessment does.
secure score, baseline
52.1 / 64
· Internal Secure Score review, 90 days of history
claims we do not make · the four listed below
this page · build facts in the footer [PLACEHOLDER] CI Lighthouse scores
after-number · due [PLACEHOLDER] post-remediation score and date
Remediation is underway now. When it is finished we will publish the after-number, the list of what changed, and what it cost us in time — including anything we decided not to fix and why. The baseline, the method and the open items are written up at Microsoft 365 tenant hardening. We are not publishing the open finding list while it is still open: a public list of unremediated gaps in a live tenant is an attack map, not a trust signal.
Evidence, not adjectives.
Most of our delivery history sits inside client tenants, under agreements that do not permit us to describe it. We are not going to convert that into a project counter on a homepage. So here is the honest split:
What we can show you today
- Microsoft 365 and Entra ID administration — a multi-domain, multi-brand tenant we have run in production since 2024
- This site, its Azure hosting and its deployment pipeline, live and inspectable
- Our own working practice: version control, code review, infrastructure as code, documented handover
What we cannot show you today
- The before/after tenant hardening study, on completion
The honest split above lives permanently at /case-studies/.
What we will not do: publish a project count we cannot evidence, display a partner badge we have not earned, put a logo on this site without written permission, or claim a certification nobody on the team holds. If a competitor's homepage shows all four, ask them for the underlying list.
More about how we work, who we are and how we handle your data
The situation you are actually in
If you run a finance business
The reporting everything depends on sits on a SQL Server that went out of Microsoft support on 14 July 2026, and nobody wants to be the person who touches it.
- Month-end close depends on one person, two spreadsheets and a query nobody else has read.
- Auditors and your larger clients now ask where data lives, who can reach it, and how access is removed the day someone leaves. Assembling honest answers takes a week and three people.
- Your disaster recovery plan exists as a document. It has not been tested end to end, and you know roughly when it was last opened.
If you run a retail business
- Point of sale, e-commerce, inventory and finance each hold a version of the truth. None of them agree, and reconciling them is somebody's whole week.
- Peak season is the worst possible time to discover what your infrastructure cannot do, and it is usually when you discover it.
- A datacenter, hosting or hardware contract is expiring. The renewal quote is the reason this project exists.
- Your card processor's security questionnaire asks about segmentation, patching and access review, and answering it accurately is uncomfortable.
Either way, you are not looking for a digital transformation. You are looking for someone to tell you why the numbers disagree, what it takes to make them agree, and what breaks if anything has to move.
What changes
A number you can put in a budget.
The assessment typically ends with a costed migration plan: what moves, in what order, what it costs to run in Azure each month, and what the one-time migration effort is. Estimates come with their assumptions written down, so when reality moves, you can see which assumption moved.
A cutover you can schedule.
Every workload gets a migration method, a rehearsal, a downtime window and a rollback. You approve the window. We do not discover the downtime during the downtime.
Access you can prove.
Least-privilege, time-bound access by named individuals. No shared logins, no standing global admin, and an offboarding step that actually runs. When your auditor asks who could reach production last quarter, the answer is a report, not a recollection.
A system your own team can run.
We hand over documentation, infrastructure defined as code in your repository, and a runbook — then we sit alongside your team for an agreed period after handover, typically the first month. If you never call us again, that is a successful outcome, not a failed account plan.
How it starts
A call. 30 minutes, with an engineer. You describe the estate and the deadline driving it. We tell you whether this is work we should be doing.
A scoped assessment. Fixed scope, fixed price, fixed end date. Read-only access to your environment — we change nothing during an assessment.
A decision you can make. You typically receive the findings, the costed plan and the risks. It is a standalone deliverable. If you take it to another firm to execute, it still works.
Every engagement is scoped and quoted individually, with you, before any work starts.
Who this is for
Built for
- Companies with 15 to 500 employees whose operations run across more systems than agree with each other.
- Teams that would rather have one reliable number than four disagreeing systems
- Reporting and scorecards that have to reconcile to their source systems, and AI steps a person approves before anything ships
- Teams that want the cost, the risk and the cutover plan written down before anything moves
- Migrations off on-premises servers, SQL Server or Microsoft 365 into Azure
Not a fit
- Fewer than 15 or more than 500 employees — outside the band this practice is built around
- A business that runs on one system, where nothing needs reconciling and the close already lands on time — there is no problem here for us to solve.
- You need a model that makes or materially influences a regulated credit, lending, insurance-pricing or employment decision. That needs a specialist model-risk practice, not us.
- Looking for the cheapest possible bid rather than a documented, fixed-scope plan
- Need an on-site, in-person team rather than same-timezone remote delivery
Who we are, briefly
entity · Automated Solutions LLC · California
AS DataWorks is the data and Azure practice of Automated Solutions LLC, based in San Diego, California — US business hours, a US entity and US contracts.
Roughly 15 engineers in-house, scaling to about 50 with vendor partners.
headcount · founder-supplied ·
Same business day, no overnight handoffs, and senior people on your project instead of junior ones — stated plainly here because it is what you are actually buying.
Entity and jurisdiction are set out on about, with why the registered address is not published and the trading-name (DBA) filing that is still in preparation.
You do not have to decide anything today. You only have to decide whether a call is worth your time.
Start with a call about what you are trying to fix.
Book an assessment call30 minutes · with the engineer who would scope the work
one-page recap within 2 business days of a call that progresses
Bring what is driving this — numbers that do not agree, a close that runs late, a support date, a contract renewal, an audit finding, a peak season. We will tell you what a realistic plan looks like, or that you do not need us.