Power BI consulting for Austin teams — senior expertise, without the full-time hire.
Lets Viz builds, fixes, and manages Power BI for Austin-area SaaS companies, fintech startups, and tech teams. Remote delivery in US Central Time. Named analyst, 2-business-day SLA on change requests, first dashboard live in 14 days. Transparent pricing: project builds from $8K, managed retainers from $5K/month — roughly a third of what a full-time hire costs.
Trusted by SaaS and tech teams across North America
What Austin SaaS teams get on day 1
Numbers from our Power BI engagements across Austin-area SaaS, fintech, and startup clients.
10
Days to first SaaS dashboard
1 BD
Response SLA on managed plans
8+
SaaS & fintech stacks built
~⅓
Cost vs. a full-time Austin hire
Three reporting problems Austin teams run into — and what they actually cost
Understanding the root cause is half the fix.
The problem
Outgrown your startup stack before the data team exists
HubSpot, Stripe, and a spreadsheet get you to Series A. Post-Series B, three teams have three versions of ARR and nobody trusts the board deck number.
Austin's SaaS growth rate is exceptional — but most founders hire a BI consultant 18 months after they should have. Every month of delay is another month of compounding data debt across disconnected sources.
The problem
Waiting on engineering to pull every data question
Your analysts queue data requests to eng. Eng has sprint priorities. Business questions wait 2–3 weeks. Leadership makes decisions without data or makes them based on stale dashboards.
A properly built Power BI semantic model with self-service access breaks this bottleneck. Finance, product, and ops all pull their own answers — engineering stays focused on product.
The problem
Offshore builds that break the moment something changes
A cheaper offshore team delivers a dashboard. Your Stripe plan changes, or you add a new product tier, and the model silently breaks — nobody notices until the board meeting.
The issue isn't cost per hour. It's that offshore teams build what you specify, not what you need — and they're unavailable at 8am Central when the Monday refresh fails.
Not just dashboards — an analytics layer your Austin team actually trusts
We connect and model your data sources — Salesforce, Stripe, HubSpot, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, or whatever your stack runs — and build the semantic model first, so reports answer real questions instead of just displaying numbers.
DAX measures are written to be maintainable, not clever. We document every measure and run a QA pass so the numbers reconcile before you see them.
Your dashboards are built for the people who read them — the CFO sees board-ready ARR and NRR cards, the RevOps lead sees pipeline drill-through, the product team sees feature adoption. One model, multiple views.
Pipelines stay green. Scheduled refreshes are monitored; if a Stripe webhook or Salesforce connection breaks, we fix it before your team opens the report to a blank screen.
When we hand off, you own everything — .pbix files, documented model, a training session. No lock-in. If you ever leave, nothing disappears.
Power BI for Austin industries — not a generic playbook
We've built in each of these verticals. That means fewer discovery questions and faster first dashboards.
We're a post-Series A SaaS company in Austin — is Lets Viz the right fit?
Yes, and it's our primary market. Austin's SaaS corridor — from the Domain to Cedar Park to Round Rock — is full of post-Series A companies with RevOps and finance teams that have outgrown HubSpot's native reports but aren't large enough to justify a full in-house BI team. This is our exact sweet spot: ARR cohorts, NRR, CAC payback, and pipeline coverage in one model, joined across Salesforce, Stripe, and NetSuite. We've built this combination many times and can deliver a first dashboard within 14 days.
Can you handle the data scale of a semiconductor or hardware company?
Yes. Austin's semiconductor cluster — anchored by facilities in the Taylor / Round Rock corridor — generates large volumes of yield, test, and operations data. We build Power BI models on top of SQL warehouses and data lakes that consolidate fab metrics, equipment utilisation rates, and supply chain KPIs into dashboards your engineering and operations teams can actually use. Where the data volume exceeds Power BI's direct query limits, we'll tell you — and recommend the right upstream warehouse layer rather than over-selling.
Do you work with fintech companies in Austin?
Yes. Austin's fintech ecosystem spans lending, payments infrastructure, and wealth management. We've built dashboards for loan approval funnel analytics, transaction success rate monitoring, and fraud detection KPIs — connecting data from Snowflake, custom APIs, and core banking systems. Compliance considerations are baked in from day one: row-level security, audit trail logging, and role-based access so sensitive financial data only reaches the right desks.
What Austin clients get on a Lets Viz engagement
Our Offerings
Data modeling & semantic layer
Star-schema models built in Power BI Desktop or Fabric, with documented relationships, calculated tables, and row-level security. Clean foundation so every report is consistent.
How a Series B SaaS team cut their reporting cycle from 3 days to real-time
An anonymised example from a recent engagement — the same problem profile as many Austin-area SaaS and fintech teams.
The challenge
A 45-person SaaS company in Cedar Park had outgrown HubSpot's native reports. Finance, product, and sales all kept separate spreadsheets — MRR numbers didn't agree between departments, churn attribution was guesswork, and leadership waited three days every month for a report that was already stale by the time it landed.
What we built
We built a unified Power BI semantic model connecting Salesforce, Stripe, and their custom PostgreSQL database. Single source of truth for ARR cohorts, NRR, CAC payback, and pipeline coverage — automated refresh every hour, row-level security for each team lead, and a board-ready executive view that published itself every Monday morning.
Outcomes
Built for the Austin market
SaaS & high-growth startups
Austin is one of the fastest-growing SaaS markets in the US — from the Domain to Cedar Park to Round Rock. Post-Series A teams regularly outgrow HubSpot's native reports but aren't big enough to justify a full in-house BI team. This is our exact sweet spot: ARR cohorts, NRR, CAC payback, and pipeline coverage in one model, joined across Salesforce, Stripe, and NetSuite. We've built this combination many times over and can deliver a first dashboard in 14 days.
Fintech & financial services
Austin's fintech ecosystem spans lending, payments infrastructure, and wealth management technology. We've built dashboards for loan approval funnel analytics, transaction success rate monitoring, and fraud detection KPIs — connecting data from Snowflake, custom APIs, and core banking systems. Compliance is baked in from day one: row-level security, audit trail logging, and role-based access so sensitive financial data only reaches the right desks.
Semiconductors & deep tech
Austin's semiconductor corridor generates large volumes of yield, test, and operations data daily. We build Power BI models on top of SQL warehouses and data lakes that consolidate fab metrics, equipment utilisation rates, and supply chain KPIs into dashboards your engineering and operations teams can actually act on. Where data volume exceeds Power BI's direct query limits, we'll tell you honestly and recommend the right upstream warehouse layer.
What clients say about working with Lets Viz
Have been working with Lets Viz technologies team for over a year now and it has been a very productive engagement. Team has a bunch of professionals who deliver on time and are always available for any questions or changes required.
Shravan Siddapurkar
Senior Director, Opsramp
A 5-star experience! Lets Viz helped us reduce the data to intelligence cycle by 50% with their Power BI dashboard development. A tremendous, unique selling proposition for our company in the marketplace.
Mike Rogers
President, BDI Agency
Senior Power BI expertise built for Austin's startup culture
Austin teams move fast. We match that cadence — scoped in days, first dashboard in under two weeks, and iteration on your timeline.
SaaS metrics out of the box
ARR, NRR, CAC payback, churn cohorts — we've built these across Salesforce + Stripe + Snowflake stacks a dozen times. No explanation needed. First build is faster because the data model is already in our head.
10-day first dashboard
Austin startups don't have 6-week runways for BI projects. We scope tight, iterate in Slack, and have a board-ready dashboard live in 10 business days from kick-off.
Fintech & SOC 2 aware
Payments, lending, and financial services clients need row-level security, audit logs, and role-based access as a default — not an add-on. We build compliance-ready Power BI from the start.
No lock-in, ever
You keep every .pbix file, the documented semantic model, and the runbooks. When we hand off, your team can maintain and extend everything independently — no dependency on us.
Are you looking for a consulting partner or a staffing agency?
Many Austin buyers search for 'Power BI consultant' but mean different things. Here's the distinction.
Consulting partner (Lets Viz)
- We own the outcome — model, pipeline, reports, governance
- One named senior analyst accountable from kickoff to hand-off
- We define the approach, not just execute instructions
- Deliverables include documentation and training so you're not dependent on us
- 2-business-day SLA on managed retainers — we monitor your pipelines proactively
- Strategic advisory: we tell you when Power BI isn't the right tool
Staffing agency / body shop
- Places a contractor at your direction — you manage the work
- Rotates staff; you often get a different person each engagement
- Executes what you specify — domain expertise not guaranteed
- You own all project management and quality control
- Typically hourly billing with no outcome accountability
- No monitoring, no SLA — breaks get flagged by your team, not theirs
Startup-speed delivery: scoped in days, live in under two weeks
Designed for Austin teams that move fast and can't afford a 6-week BI project.
Day 1–2 — Data audit + scoping call
We review your Salesforce, Stripe, and warehouse setup, identify the two or three metrics your team argues over, and come back with a fixed scope and price — same week.
Day 3–10 — First dashboard live
We build in a shared Slack channel. You see the data model before any visuals go in. Board-ready dashboard is live by day 10, iterated based on your feedback.
Day 11–14 — Pipelines, RLS, alerts
Scheduled refreshes, row-level security for each team lead, and break alerts so you never find out a Stripe connection failed from a stale report.
Ongoing — Managed retainer or clean hand-off
Stay on a month-to-month managed plan (1-day SLA, named analyst, quarterly model review) or take full ownership with documented model and training session. No pressure either way.
Connects to your SaaS and startup stack
Salesforce, Stripe, Snowflake, HubSpot, PostgreSQL — wherever your data lives, we model it. No rip-and-replace required.
CRMs & RevOps
Salesforce · HubSpot · Pipedrive · Close
Cloud & DWH
Snowflake · BigQuery · Redshift · dbt
Payments & Billing
Stripe · Recurly · Chargebee · Paddle
Product & Engineering
Mixpanel · Amplitude · Segment · PostHog
Fintech & Compliance
Plaid · MX · Marqeta · Unit
DBs & Custom APIs
Postgres · MySQL · REST APIs · Webhooks
What does a Power BI consultant cost in Austin?
We publish our rates. No discovery call required to get a number.
Hourly
10-hr minimum
One-off fixes, DAX rewrites, performance audits. Predictable for small scoped tasks.
- Named senior analyst
- One-off fixes & DAX rewrites
- Performance audits
- No retainer commitment
Project
fixed scope
One well-defined dashboard or data model. Fixed price, delivered in 3–4 weeks.
- Fixed price — no billing surprises
- 1 dashboard or semantic model
- Documented model hand-off
- 30-day support window
- Training session included
Managed retainer
per month
Named analyst, 2-day SLA, pipeline monitoring. Roughly a third of a full-time hire.
- Named analyst, your timezone
- 2-business-day SLA on requests
- Pipeline & refresh monitoring
- Unlimited change requests
- Quarterly strategic review
All prices in USD. Austin market Power BI consultants typically charge $150–300/hr for comparable senior expertise. Our retainer model is priced below US boutique firms while keeping delivery timezone-aligned (US Central) with a named analyst.
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Serving Austin and the entire Central Texas metro
Remote-first delivery covers the entire metro — no local office required, no travel costs.
What Austin teams ask before starting
Ready to put Power BI to work in Austin?
30-min fit call — no pitch. We'll review your current data stack, scope the first dashboard, and give you a fixed price. You decide whether to proceed. Serving Austin, Round Rock, Cedar Park, Georgetown, and all of Central Texas remotely on US Central Time.