Why Most Affordability Models Fail Explainability Standards
Most lenders believe their affordability models are compliant. They are not. If you cannot explain how your model makes a decision within seconds, you are already misaligned with FCA expectations. The FCA’s Data First Strategy at makes one point painfully clear. Black box decisioning is no longer tolerated in UK financial services. Yet most firms continue […]
Spreadsheet Based Compliance Is Dead: What High Performing Firms Are Doing Instead
If spreadsheets still sit at the heart of your compliance process, you already know your controls are not fit for purpose. The question is why you continue to trust tools that cannot provide the evidence your regulator now demands. Many firms still rely heavily on spreadsheets because they are familiar, flexible, and close at hand. But […]
Data and security, Data visulization, Embedded Analytics
“Just Give Me the Data”: The Shift from Reports to Real Time in Client Conversations
I hear it more often than ever these days. A client picks up the phone or fires off an email and says, “Can you just give me the data?” No fluff. No formatting. No neatly curated PDF. They want to see it themselves, and they want to see it now. That sentence has become a […]
Data and security, Data visulization, Embedded Analytics
Is Your BI Strategy Still Fit for Purpose in a Real-Time World?
There’s a question I find myself asking more and more in conversations with product owners, finance leads, and SaaS founders: Is your BI strategy genuinely built for the world you're operating in now? Or is it still serving the one you were in five years ago? It’s easy to assume that because you’re generating reports […]
The Future of Embedded BI: What SaaS Leaders Need to Know
As the pace of SaaS innovation accelerates, so too does the expectation that data should not only be available – it should be embedded, intelligent, and actionable. Traditional reporting isn’t enough. Customers want insight in context, and they want it now. Embedded Business Intelligence (BI) is no longer a value-add. It’s a core part of […]
We Had Dashboards. We Just Weren’t Looking at the Right Things.
Let’s get one thing out of the way — we had dashboards. Lots of them. They looked decent. They worked… kind of. But they weren’t telling us the things we actually needed to know. As we added more tools — GitLab, AWS, JetBrains, Qase, Zendesk — our data sources multiplied, but our visibility didn’t. Each […]
We Asked ChatGPT to Build a Dashboard. Here’s What Happened…
It definitely understood the assignment. Kind of. In the name of research (and mild mischief), we decided to run an experiment: ask ChatGPT to design a business dashboard. After all, AI is everywhere. It writes code, summarises documents, and occasionally insists the capital of France is Brussels. So we asked ourselves: What would happen if […]
Build vs buy: where should you focus your development efforts?
Businesses will face the same dilemma when making decisions about technology investments, do we buy or build? We outline some common concerns that arise during the buy vs. build debate and how to overcome them.