Strategic Finance & Analytics Advisory · Northville, MI

Operator.
Analyst.
Builder.

One advisor who has run the business, done the math, and shipped the software.

Work Smarter Analytics helps small and mid-sized companies make sharper decisions — then hands you the working models, dashboards, and tools to act on them. Not a deck. A thing that runs.

Experience30+ yrs operating
CredentialsMBA · MS Analytics · MS Finance
On recordGranted U.S. patent
Revenue projection
LIVE MODEL
Drag the inputs — this is the kind of decision tool I build for clients.
Month 12 MRR
$0
12-mo revenue
$0
Net mo. rate
0%
8%
3%
Starting MRR $25,000 · compounding monthly · illustrative. Your real model would use your data, your seasonality, your scenarios.
The difference

Three disciplines most companies hire separately. One person who does all three.

A consultant gives you advice. An analyst gives you a model. A developer gives you software. You usually pay for three relationships — and lose the thread between them. I keep it in one head.

/ operator

I've sat in the chair

P&L · teams · hard calls

Three decades in senior operating roles, including a decade as a company president. I know the difference between a clean spreadsheet and a real decision, because I've had to make the call and live with it.

/ analyst

I do the math

forecasting · finance · modeling

Graduate training in business analytics and finance, applied to the questions owners actually ask: What will next quarter look like? Where's the margin leaking? Is this priced right? Should we make this bet?

/ builder

I ship the tool

apps · dashboards · automation

I don't just recommend the solution — I build it. Custom dashboards, decision models, and full software products that keep working long after the engagement ends. The proof is below: real products, live in production.

Proof of work

These aren't case studies. They're products I built and shipped.

Most advisors point to slides. I can point to software running in production — designed, coded, and maintained by one person. That same capability is what I bring to your decisions and your data.

Live product · in use today

grAAAAde

graaaade.com

An AI tutor that actually knows your textbook. Upload your course materials and it answers from your sources — office hours, on demand. Built end to end: retrieval engine, AI reasoning, and the full web app. I use it for my own graduate coursework.

RAG / retrieval vector search Django LLM orchestration
Live product · piloted with cities

LeagHub

league management SaaS

Run your league, not your spreadsheets. A full platform for municipal parks & rec departments — scheduling, registration, payments, and team balancing in one place. Built, hosted, and supported solo, and already demoed to local cities.

Django Stripe payments multi-tenant SaaS SOC 2 path
Also built
Sales analytics dashboards — pipeline, forecast accuracy, rep performance (Streamlit) Equity-signal models — screening & backtesting on market data Tournament platform — payments, AI team balancing, e-sign waivers
On the record

The training — and tools — behind the work.

MBA
Businessstrategy & operations
MS
Business Analyticscompleted
MS
Finance2026 · in progress
BI
Dashboards & automationdesign → deploy
1
Granted U.S. patentnamed inventor
30+
Years operatingincl. company president
How we'd work together

Right-sized for a small business, not a Fortune 500.

Start with a focused project, or bring me on as a fractional resource. Pricing below is a starting point — every engagement is scoped to what you actually need.

Project

A defined deliverable

from $12K / project
A specific thing built and handed over — a forecasting model, a dashboard, an analysis that settles a decision.
  • Fixed scope and price
  • You own what's built
  • Typically 2–6 weeks
Retainer · most popular

Fractional analytics partner

$4K–$11K / month
Ongoing capacity for the company that needs an analytical brain in the room every month, without a full-time hire.
  • Standing time each month
  • Models & dashboards that evolve with you
  • Three tiers by depth of involvement
Advisory

By the hour

$375 / hour
For a second set of eyes on a decision, a model review, or a working session — no long-term commitment.
  • Pay only for time used
  • Strategy, finance, or analytics
  • Good first step before a larger scope

Have a decision you'd rather not guess at?

Tell me what's keeping you up — the pricing call, the forecast, the data you can't get a clear read on. First conversation is free.