Field notes

Write-ups of things we've actually built and tested, including what we'd want fixed before putting any of it near a client's production process. Published so you can judge the reasoning rather than take our word for it.

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Measured, not asserted: a trust layer for every number in a Power BI report

September 2026 · 9 min · video

One capture per pipeline run, a score on every measure and page, and a lineage graph that shows where the number came from. How the Trust Explorer was built on Microsoft Fabric, with a walkthrough video.

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What happens after you connect your systems

August 2026 · 6 min

Getting your data into one place is the half everyone talks about. Knowing whether the numbers can be trusted is the half that decides whether anyone uses the reporting.

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One model, two jobs: testing write-back workflows in Microsoft Fabric Apps

July 2026 · 5 min

Can an operational process live on the same governed model as the reporting? I built an employee leave tracker to find out, and row-level security held across both.

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Case study

Building an interactive human body injury map in Power BI using Deneb

March 2026 · 7 min

Twenty-two interactive body regions, heat-mapped by injury count, with full cross-filtering, built entirely inside Power BI.

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Industry insight

What is MCP, and why should business owners care?

December 2025 · 7 min

Model Context Protocol lets tools read your data where it already lives, without exporting it. What that changes for reporting, and what it doesn't.

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