SOLUTIONS FOR GROWTH
For SMEs
Your numbers live in Sage, a bank app, a spreadsheet and someone's memory. We put them in one place — a live view of your sales, stock and finances that's actually current, not three days old by the time someone's rebuilt the Excel sheet.
Ask a plain-English question — "which products made us the most money last month?" — and get a real answer straight from your own data in seconds. No waiting on a report. This isn't a simple search box either — it's been tested against dozens of real business scenarios specifically to catch the kind of subtle errors that make most AI tools unreliable for actual decisions.
Every dashboard and number here is built around what your team actually wants to track — not a fixed template you have to work around and grounded in 9+ years of real enterprise data engineering experience.
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Month-end means three days of someone rebuilding the same spreadsheet, chasing numbers from four different places, hoping nothing's out of date by the time it lands on your desk.
With MetricLabs
You open your phone before your first coffee and already know exactly how yesterday went — and if something needs your attention, it's already flagged.
INTERACTIVE
What Is Manual Reporting Actually Costing You?
How many hours a month does someone spend manually pulling reports together?
Roughly what does that person's time cost per hour, including salary and overhead?
That's approximately
R60,000
every year spent manually rebuilding reports that could be live and automatic.
A live dashboard doesn't just save this time — it means nobody's making a decision on a number that's already three weeks old.
THE DIFFERENCE
Traditional BI vs. MetricLabs
| Traditional BI | MetricLabs — Data Intelligence |
|---|---|
| Descriptive only — "what happened?" | Diagnostic and forward-looking — "why and what next?" |
| Static dashboards that turn into shelfware | Proactive flags and plain-English answers, on demand |
| Months of rigid scoping to deploy | Live within weeks |
| An agency that builds what it's told | A partner that finds the gaps you didn't know you had |
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Two Ways To Start
Metrics Audit
R9,500 — fixed, 10 working days
A real, written findings report — where your data actually lives, what it's costing you to reconcile manually and a sample visualization of what a live dashboard could show, built from a snapshot of your real data. Credited toward your setup fee if you continue within 60 days.
Book the Metrics AuditFull Platform — tiered pricing, from R16,000/month
Foundation
R16,000/mo
Single-branch businesses needing core, always-current dashboards
Growth
R28,000/mo
Businesses ready for AI-assisted, plain-English data queries
Enterprise SME
R18,000+/branch
Multi-branch groups needing consolidated reporting
Exact pricing depends on the number of source systems, data complexity and team size — we'll give you a straight, fixed quote after a short conversation, not after you've signed anything.
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The 5-Minute Business Health Check
Can you answer these 5 questions about your business right now, without opening Excel or calling someone? A short, genuinely useful self-assessment — free, no obligation.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What if my data is a mess right now?
That's normal, and exactly what we clean up first — whether you start with the Audit or go straight into the full platform.
How is this different from hiring a bookkeeper or analyst?
A bookkeeper or analyst is genuinely valuable, but they're still one person, manually checking numbers, usually after the fact. This platform monitors every connected system continuously, flags anomalies as they happen instead of at month-end, and answers plain-English questions on demand. It doesn't replace the judgment a good person brings — it removes the manual data-wrangling that eats most of their time, so they can spend it on judgment calls instead of spreadsheets.
What do I actually get after the 10-day Audit?
A written findings report and a sample visualization built from a snapshot of your real data — yours to keep either way.
Does the Audit fee count toward anything if I continue?
Yes. The full R9,500 you pay for the Audit is credited toward your setup fee if you move forward with the full platform within 60 days of receiving your findings report. The Audit isn't a separate, sunk cost sitting outside the engagement — it's the first phase of it, if you choose to continue. If you don't continue, you still keep the written report and sample visualization either way.
What if I start the full platform and it's not working for us?
Standard engagements run month-to-month once the initial setup is complete — there's no multi-year contract you're locked into by default. If the platform genuinely isn't delivering value for your business, you can wind down without penalty. We'd rather earn the engagement every month than hold you to a term that isn't working for you.
Who owns the dashboard and data once it's built?
You do, entirely. MetricLabs manages the platform — nothing about your data or your build is ours to hold over you.
Is my data safe?
Yes. Your data is hosted on Microsoft Azure infrastructure, which independently maintains ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certification. Access is individually controlled and logged at every layer rather than shared through common logins, and our data handling practices are built around South Africa's POPIA requirements from day one, not retrofitted after the fact.
