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5-Step Process

Custom Real Estate Dashboards Built for Your Portfolio

From ideation to launch in 28 days. Automated data refresh from Yardi, AppFolio, Entrata, Rent Manager, and more.

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Our Methodology

The 5-Step Process to Build Your Custom Real Estate Dashboard

A structured, transparent process that keeps you in control at every step — from understanding your goals to training your team and beyond.

The 5-step custom dashboard process: Ideation, Blueprint, Build, Validate, Launch
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Step 1

Ideation

Goal: Understand your goals and provide rough cost estimates for achieving those goals.

  • Audience for the dashboard
  • Questions the dashboard should answer
  • Metrics and sources of data
  • Time frame for launch
  • Preference for Own vs Rent
  • Preference for Power BI or Tableau
  • Cost estimates for construction and operation
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Step 2

Blueprint

Goal: Create specifications for your custom dashboard and provide you an accurate quote.

  • Metric Definitions and Calculations
  • Visual Design
  • Technical Design
  • Data Source Design
  • Price Quote (Blueprint is a paid engagement)
Select the data source

Select the data source

Sketch the dashboard

Sketch the dashboard

Specify the metrics

Specify the metrics

3

Step 3

Build

Goal: Build a functioning, interactive dashboard that can be automatically refreshed with latest data.

  • Write formulas for metrics and calculations
  • Create visual elements: charts, filters, and interactivity
  • Design the data source
  • Build the automated data refresh process
  • Load initial dataset and tune refresh speed
Decide how to get data into the dashboard

Decide how to get data into the dashboard

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Step 4

Validate

Goal: Confirm the dashboard displays metrics accurately and refreshes on schedule.

  • Decide pass/fail criteria
  • Compare data in dashboard to data in reports
  • Log data validation results
  • Compile evidence of testing
Compare numbers in the report to numbers in the dashboard

Compare numbers in the report to numbers in the dashboard

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Step 5

Launch

Goal: Get you and your team using your newly built custom dashboard.

  • Install software in production environment
  • Train the users
  • Setup Help Desk
  • Get User Licenses
  • Setup Security
  • Begin Warranty Period
Set up user licenses and permissions

Set up user licenses and permissions

Power BI workspace configuration

Power BI workspace configuration

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