Gaugeline DATA
Sacramento Region · Remote-capable
Fractional data practice

Run the business on numbers you can trust.

Gaugeline unifies the scattered systems behind a wholesale or manufacturing business into one warehouse — and five reports you'll actually run on.

QuickBooks ERP WMS CRM Spreadsheets SCATTERED TRUSTED ONE SOURCE OF TRUTH
Five systems in · one reading out
The problem

Five systems.
None of them agree.

Orders live in one place, inventory in another, accounting in a third — and the spreadsheet everyone actually trusts is on someone's laptop. Every report costs a day of copy-paste, and you still can't be sure the number is right.

"Which customers actually make us money?" — nobody's sure.
Two systems, two different revenue totals for last month.
Stockouts and dead inventory, discovered after the fact.
The monthly report is a person, not a system.
Duplicate records quietly skewing every total.
The engagement

Build the foundation once. Keep it clean for good.

A one-time build to unify your data and stand up the reports — then a light monthly retainer so it stays accurate and grows with the questions you ask next.

One-time · Foundation Build

The Foundation Build

4–8 weeks, fixed scope
  • Every source system connected into one warehouse
  • Records reconciled and deduplicated — one clean version of the truth
  • Five signature reports built on top and validated with you
  • Documented handover, so nothing is a black box
Monthly · Retainer

Kept Clean

Ongoing, no long-term lock-in
  • Pipelines monitored so the numbers stay current
  • New reports and dashboards as questions come up
  • Routine data-quality checks that catch drift early
  • Someone accountable when a number looks off
What you get

Five reports you'll actually run on.

Built for wholesale distribution & light manufacturing — tuned to your systems, not a template.
R—01

Margin by product & customer

Where the profit actually comes from — and where it quietly leaks.

R—02

Inventory health

Stockouts, slow-movers, and carrying cost, before they cost you.

R—03

Customer concentration & reorder patterns

Who your revenue depends on, and which accounts are drifting away.

R—04

Cash & receivables

AR aging, days-to-pay, and exactly what's overdue right now.

R—05

Fulfillment & throughput

On-time rate and capacity versus demand — where the bottleneck is.

Why Gaugeline

Enterprise-grade data engineering, sized for your business.

Led by a Lead Data Architect who runs multi-year data modernizations for enterprise clients on Azure Databricks — now bringing that same discipline to businesses your size, without the enterprise price tag.

40%+
duplicate customer records surfaced on one enterprise system — records that had quietly corrupted executive reporting and forecasting.
100+
production data pipelines designed, built, and kept running in live environments.
~10
engineers led across a four-domain migration off legacy systems into a modern cloud stack.
How it works

Three steps to a number you trust.

STEP 01

Data audit

A 30-minute call and a short written findings note: what systems you have, where the data hurts, and what's worth building first.

30 minutes · free
STEP 02

Foundation Build

Systems unified into one warehouse, records cleaned, and your five signature reports built and validated together.

4–8 weeks · fixed scope
STEP 03

Kept clean

A light monthly retainer keeps the data current, adds reports as you need them, and keeps someone accountable for the numbers.

ongoing · cancel anytime
Investment
Foundation Build
$8,000–$12,000 one-time
Scoped to your systems and reports.
Monthly retainer
$3,000–$4,500 / month
Right-sized to your data volume. No long-term lock-in.

See one clean number you actually trust.

Start with a 30-minute data audit — no pitch, just a clear read on what's worth fixing first.

Book the audit → martin@gaugelinedata.com