Turn your data into clear, commercial insight

Make faster, better decisions with trusted visibility across your organisation.

We design and deliver business intelligence systems that centralise your data and transform it into actionable insight.

Business intelligence dashboard showing real-time operational performance metrics

We build, launch and manage systems for:

Business challenges we solve

Organisations are generating more data than ever before and more is possible with that data. 

However, for many that potential is locked away. Data is fragmented across systems, difficult to access, manually collated and often inconsistent or unreliable.

Some of the specific challenges we solve include:

Limited visibility into operational and commercial performance

Without clear insight into performance drivers, inefficiencies remain hidden and opportunities are missed.

Slow, manual reporting processes

Manual exports, spreadsheet manipulation and repetitive report building waste valuable time and introduce risk.

Lack of a single source of truth

When different departments rely on different datasets, definitions and calculations, confidence in reporting erodes.

Fragmented, inconsistent reporting across systems

Critical data is spread across ERPs, CRMs, finance platforms, spreadsheets and disconnected tools.

Reports are manually assembled, metrics don’t align and leadership teams spend time debating numbers instead of making decisions.

How we can help you get the insights you need

We unify your data across systems, implement robust governance and design scalable reporting architectures that support both operational and strategic decision-making.

Data discovery & reporting assessment

The first step is usually understanding what data exists, how it is currently used, and why reporting may be slow, inconsistent or difficult to trust.

We map your core systems (ERP, CRM, finance, operational platforms, SaaS tools and spreadsheets), review existing reports and KPIs, assess data quality and accessibility, and evaluate how information currently flows through the organisation.

We align this with your commercial objectives and leadership reporting requirements to ensure the analytics foundation supports real business needs.

Outcome: a clear view of your current reporting landscape, where inconsistencies and inefficiencies exist, and what must change to deliver reliable, actionable insight.

Data centralisation & single source of truth

Accurate analytics are often not possible across fragmented systems.

We design and implement a centralised data architecture, whether that’s Azure Data Lake, Fabric, Synapse or a modern data warehouse, structured around a clear, governed data model.

This ensures data from across the organisation is consolidated, standardised and aligned under consistent definitions and metrics.

Outcome: one trusted source of truth that underpins all reporting and analytics across the business.

Automated data pipelines & reporting

Manual exports and spreadsheet manipulation introduce delay and risk.

We build secure, automated data pipelines that continuously ingest and transform data into reporting environments. This eliminates manual effort and ensures dashboards and reports are always up to date.

Outcome: up to date visibility without manual reporting bottlenecks.

Dashboard & analytics platform design

Insights must be accessible and intuitive.

We design tailored dashboards and analytics platforms aligned to operational, commercial and executive needs, from board-level performance summaries to deep operational drill-down views.

Every dashboard is built around decision-making, not just data display.

Outcome: clear, actionable visibility across performance, risks and opportunities.

AI-powered analytics & natural language interaction

We can enable natural language interaction with your data, allowing users to query performance, explore trends and generate insights using conversational interfaces, whether embedded within dashboards or integrated into internal tools.

This includes implementing secure AI layers over governed data models, enabling retrieval-based insight generation, and ensuring outputs are grounded in trusted, centralised data.

By combining structured analytics with AI-driven interaction, we can make insight accessible to a wider audience across the organisation, without compromising accuracy, governance or control.

Outcome: faster access to insights, reduced reliance on specialist analysts, and data-driven decision-making available to every level of the business.

Governance, security & controlled access

Analytics environments must be reliable, secure and auditable.

We implement structured governance, role-based access control and clear data ownership to ensure reporting is both trusted and compliant.

This prevents metric drift, protects sensitive information and ensures long-term integrity.

Outcome: a secure, governed analytics platform leadership can rely on.

Data Discovery & architecture assessment

The first step is usually to get clarity on what data exists, where it lives and what’s preventing it from being used by AI.

We map your core systems (ERP, CRM, MES/WMS, finance, SaaS and spreadsheets), assess data quality and accessibility, review governance and security constraints, and evaluate infrastructure readiness.

We align this with your business requirements and AI ambitions to ensure the foundation supports the tooling and integrations you actually plan to deploy.

Outcome: a clear understanding of your current landscape, the constraints holding AI back, and what must change in what order to enable adoption at scale.

Data centralisation strategy

AI can rarely operate reliably across fragmented, disconnected systems.

We design a target architecture that brings your data into a single, trusted environment, whether that’s Azure Data Lake, Synapse, Fabric or a modern warehouse, structured around a clear data model and scalable ingestion strategy.

This includes defining how data is consolidated, how a single source of truth is established, and how the architecture will support current and future AI use cases.

Outcome: one governed, centralised data foundation that AI systems can securely access and operate on at scale.

Data cleansing & structuring

Centralising poor-quality data simply creates a larger, more visible problem.

We can help you cleanse, standardise and structure your data to remove duplication, resolve inconsistencies and define clear, canonical schemas. Where data is semi-structured or unstructured, we can transform it into formats that can be reliably consumed by AI systems, with appropriate metadata and classification applied.

Outcome: reliable, consistent, AI-ready data that can be trusted by both machines and decision-makers.

Integration layer modernisation

Legacy systems are often a barrier to AI adoption.

Many existing platforms were never designed to expose data in a structured, programmatic way. We introduce the integration layers required to make this possible, building APIs where none exist, creating secure data pipelines, implementing middleware and event-driven architectures, and extracting data safely from rigid legacy environments.

Outcome: AI systems can securely, reliably and programmatically access the inputs they need to operate at scale.

Governance, security & access controls

AI can magnify risk when governance isn’t clearly defined.

With every project, we implement robust controls around how data is classified, accessed and protected,  including role-based access control, audit logging, encryption standards, retention policies and alignment with GDPR and industry-specific regulations.

This ensures that as AI systems gain access to centralised data, they do so within a secure, controlled and fully auditable environment.

Outcome: an AI-ready, secure and compliant data architecture that leadership can trust to scale safely.

Preparing data for AI tooling

Sometimes, not all centralised data is immediately usable by AI systems.

We can structure and refine your datasets so they can be meaningfully consumed by modern AI tooling, whether that involves preparing clean training datasets, designing AI-friendly APIs, enabling retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), creating embeddings pipelines, or applying appropriate labelling and feature structuring.

This ensures your data is not just accessible, but optimised for the specific AI use cases you plan to deploy.

Outcome: data that AI systems can reliably interpret, retrieve and act upon.

Why choose Steer73?

We’re a real partner that can guide you from requirements gathering through to running a high-ROI system long into the future.

Guaranteed project success

We guarantee the outcomes and can fix the price of every stage of your project.

We’ve never failed to deliver a project.

Unlock maximum ROI from your project

Our proven process for extracting your requirements and understanding your business ensures that we build the right solution for your needs—striking an optimal balance between cost, features and security.

Free first project

Verify that we’re the right fit with a free initial Discovery project.

Budgets to match your requirements

We have proven processes, frameworks and expertise to help you balance scope, roadmap, technology choices and operational management to ensure you solve your challenges with the budget you have available.

Faster & lower risk

Our proven Digital Transformation Platform speeds up delivery, reduces costs, cuts risk and ensures you get the solution your business really needs.

PaddyPower customer review of Steer73

“The attention to detail, clarity, quality and pace which Steer73 deliver customer features is outstanding, which creates a working relationship more akin to a joint venture than a supplier / customer standard.”

 
Chubb customer review of Steer73

“It’s been an absolute pleasure to work with Steer73, very professional, very fast and they keep us in check – keep us focused on answering the important issues at hand.”

DHL review of Steer73

“Steer73 have offered us a high-quality service from the beginning of the project, working with us to analyse where our current range of digital products were successful and where they were failing, providing both the tools and the encouragement to grow our business.​”

What our clients say about us

Our approach

Whatever you’re trying to create, you can build and grow it faster with Steer73’s Digital Transformation Platform.

Lightning-fast development, proven methods to improve stability, standardised project structures and the latest engineering developments– all baked into one platform to help you your project succeed.

Where we start

Making sure you build the right thing

Take advantage of a set of proven templates, workshops, exercises, checklists, documents and expertise to identify your current, future and aspirational requirements.

We will then apply a robust prioritisation framework to develop the right roadmap for your solution.

Digital transformation experts planning a business intelligence technology project
Digital transformation experts planning a business intelligence technology project

Narrowing in on the perfect solution

In every project, we go through a structured, iterative process that refines your vision from high-level ideas into fully defined, actionable steps.

Every stage, from Discovery to Scoping to Solution Definition is backed by proven methodologies, frameworks and assets to ensure your project is built for long term success.

Flexible delivery methodologies

From Waterfall to Agile to Hybrid, we adapt our approach based on your project needs and governance requirements.

Tailored engagement models

Whether you prefer fixed-price, fixed-scope engagements or want to embed a dedicated team within your organisation, we provide the right structure to drive your business forward with tech.

Ongoing support & development

Our partnership doesn’t need to end at launch.

We provide ongoing support, maintenance, security & risk monitoring and continuous improvement to ensure that your solution reliably adds value long into the future. 

Maintain full control with zero supplier lock-in

We select technology based purely on your business needs, ensuring a solution that is tailored, scalable and future-proof.

Whether you want to host in your own environment or have us manage it for you, let us handle maintenance or bring it in-house, expand with new features or maintain the same functionality—the choice is entirely yours.

It’s never a bad time to talk with us!

No matter what stage your project is in, we would love to speak.

We offer a free discovery service to help you develop a deeper understanding of your problem, the potential software solutions and the costs involved in building these solutions.