I rescue
your Data.

You see
your entire Company.

Every. Single. Morning.

Connecting your ERP, Logistics, Financial and everything
into a suite of executive-ready Source of Truth reports

using Power BI

Sound Familiar?

The Scattered Data
ERP in one system,
Geo tracking in another app,
Sales on a different server..
Every app, a different report
Leadership can see pieces — but never the whole picture
The Endless Scramble
Month-end scrambles,
Excel with bad formulas,
Consolidations taking days.
Days of rushed manual effort that never finishes
Decisions made blind, on stale data
Fixes That Break
Reports get built,
SKUs change,
Team changes,
Nobody owns it
Six months later, it's broken and no-one knows why

My Standards

Design around Users,
not the data.
Operations sees their day. Finance sees their close. Sales sees their pipeline. Same truth underneath — presented for the person looking at it. When reporting fits the role, adoption takes care of itself.
The unseen, unglamorous
details matter the most.
Data architecture, source connections, transformation logic, refresh schedules. Nobody sees it. Everything depends on it. That's where I spend most of my time — and it's why the dashboards actually work.
Pretty is not enough.
A dashboard nobody trusts is worse than no dashboard at all. Your reports need to be reliable, auditable, and built on clean data — not just good-looking.
Future-proof everything.
When you're ready to add a new division, roll reporting out to the field, or hand it off to your own team — the foundation is already there. I build for where your business is going, not just where it is.
The Approach

I don't build reports.
I build visibility.

Most BI consultants start with the dashboard. I start with the business. Twenty years in finance and operations taught me that the right question matters more than the right chart.

🔍
Understand the Business
What decisions are you trying to make? That's where I start.
🔗
Connect the Sources
Every system unified into one governed data model.
📊
Build the Visibility
Infrastructure designed for daily use by real people.
✅
Decisions Get Better
When leadership sees clearly, better outcomes follow.
What I Connect

Every source. Every system.
One curated workspace.

Your data lives in a dozen places — ERPs, cloud databases, spreadsheets on someone's desktop, legacy systems nobody wants to touch. I connect all of it into a single, governed Power BI environment your whole team can trust.

Dynamics 365
SAP
Sage / Sage Intacct
SQL Server
Snowflake
Salesforce
📊
Power BI
Azure Data Factory
SharePoint / Teams
Excel & Flat Files
REST APIs
Legacy ERPs
Manual Spreadsheets

"I own the how. You own the what. I build the visibility — you make the decisions that move the company forward."

— Karl Sexton
Results

Real problems. Real visibility.

Every engagement starts the same way: something critical is invisible. Here's what changed.

Food Distribution · $25–30MM/month
Running a $300M+ operation on flat reports and tribal knowledge

No drill-down capability. Seasonal variances with no trail to invoice level. Nobody could answer "which customers are actually making us money?"

Complete customer-level profitability — for the first time

Customer P&L allocating all expenses to individual customers across 3 business units. Weekly sales trending with drill-down to exact invoices.

7M+
Invoice lines / year
3
Business units
Power BINCR Legacy ERPPower QueryDAXCustomer P&L
Consumer Manufacturing · J&J Subsidiary
Data scattered across 30+ sources and five global SAP systems

After a $3 billion acquisition, 300+ products needed to move to competitive suppliers. Manufacturing and supply chain teams flying blind.

Governed source of truth with daily automated refresh across 5 regions

15 source-of-truth data tables via Azure Data Factory. Change data management across 650+ fields. Automated workflow system.

30+
Sources unified
5
SAP regions
5yr
Engagement
Azure Data FactorySAPSQL ServerPower BIPower Automate
Property & Real Estate · Global Film Studios
Financial planning scattered across D365, Teams files, and manual Excel

No unified BI architecture. Data in disconnected pockets. No self-service analytics for the team.

Modular BI suite — Lease Income, Work Orders, Job Cost, Financials

Dataflows normalizing complex global leasing data. Power BI Apps for team distribution. Daily automated refresh.

D365 Business CentralDataflowsPower BI AppsPower Query
Manufacturing · Retail
Five disconnected systems, no standardized reporting

Legacy ERP, Salesforce, Azure, Teams, and individual spreadsheets. Every team had its own version of the truth.

Unified platform — built, trained, and rolled out company-wide

All 5+ sources into one Power BI solution. Requirements prioritized, internal team trained, UAT conducted, full rollout with hypercare.

5+
Sources connected
Legacy ERPSalesforceAzurePower BITraining & Hypercare

I don't just build dashboards for clients.
I built my own business platform from scratch.

iFriday CRM — a full-featured CRM and project management platform I designed and built with my AI development partners. The best way to prove you can build operational infrastructure is to use it yourself, every day.

See iFriday CRM →

Tell me what's not working.

I work with mid-size manufacturers and distributors who know their data should be doing more. No pitch, no pressure — just tell me what's going on.

karl@karlsextonconsulting.com

Tampa, Florida · Available for remote engagements nationwide

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I'll tell you if I can help.