We already have Power BI and it's a mess. Can you fix it instead of restarting?
Usually yes. Most “Power BI is slow and nobody trusts it” problems come from the model, not the tool — flat imported tables, measures duplicated across reports, no clear grain. We audit first and tell you honestly whether it's worth repairing or rebuilding.
Can AI really read our documents reliably, or is that a demo?
It depends entirely on how it's built, and most of what gets demoed is not reliable. What works in production is a pipeline, not a prompt: deterministic extraction first, embeddings for semantic matching, then a model acting as a judge that returns a score with a written justification — so a person can audit any single decision. Ours runs every day inside LicitaSmart, where it extracts 23–24 documents from a tender package that a commercial LLM read as 0–3, and turned a matching engine that produced zero useful hits out of 3,000 into dozens of real opportunities per week. If a vendor shows you a chatbot and no numbers, that's a demo.
What does it cost?
We quote after we've seen the scope, never from a price list. Tell us what you're trying to do and we'll come back with a range and what drives it. Assessments are the cheapest way to find out whether the bigger project is even worth doing.
Will we depend on you forever?
No. Every engagement ends with documentation, a handover session, and full ownership of the code and models on your side. Retainers exist because some clients want them, not because we engineered a hostage situation.
What is a fractional data team?
A fractional data team is an outside team doing the work of an in-house data department — modeling, pipelines, BI reports, machine learning — for a fraction of the cost of hiring an analyst, an engineer and a BI developer. You get the capability without the headcount, and you scale it up or down by the month. For most companies under a few hundred people, it's the only version of a data team that the budget actually supports.
Do you work with Microsoft tooling specifically?
Yes — Power BI with DAX and Power Query, SQL Server with SSIS, SSAS and SSRS, plus Azure SQL, Data Factory and Synapse. We also work in PostgreSQL, BigQuery and Python where those fit better, and we'll say so if they do.
Do you only build apps, or can you work on our data?
Both, and often the same engagement. Plenty of clients come for a product and stay for the reporting layer — or arrive with a working system and no idea what it's telling them. We take data-only work with no app attached.
Where is Summitview based?
Summitview Land Holdings, LLC is a U.S. company — incorporated in Florida, and the entity you contract and pay. We have a local team in Brazil serving Portuguese-speaking clients in their own hours, a Portugal office opening in 2027 for European and U.K. clients, and a Shenzhen base opening in the third quarter of 2027 to serve China and Asia. Until that office opens, Asian clients are served by our Brazil team.