Power BI development
Dashboards, semantic models, DAX, and RLS — done right the first time.
Power BI consulting is the work of building production-grade Power BI semantic models, DAX measures, row-level security, deployment pipelines, and Embedded analytics — billed hourly by senior developers at $100 per hour.
Why this work matters
Most Power BI work is built by analysts who learned DAX from YouTube. The dashboards 'look right' for two months, then somebody asks a slicing question that breaks every measure, and now the CFO doesn't trust the numbers. We model first, visualize last.
The work, in detail.
- Star-schema semantic models (not flat dumps)
- Calibrated DAX (no time-intelligence horror shows)
- Row-level security (RLS) with proper testing
- Incremental refresh + dataflows
- Direct Lake / Direct Query / Import — picked correctly
- Workspace governance + deployment pipelines
- Power BI Embedded for customer-facing dashboards
- →Production Power BI workspace
- →Calibrated semantic model + DAX measure library
- →RLS configuration + test plan
- →Deployment pipeline (dev/test/prod)
- →Documentation + handover for your team
Senior Power BI developers who write defensible DAX, model star schemas correctly, and ship dashboards executives actually read. Hourly engagements with no minimum.
The approach.
Model first
Star schemas, calibrated relationships, single direction by default. Bidirectional only when justified, with the implications written down. The model is the product; the visuals are the surface.
DAX with intent
Time-intelligence done with date tables that respect your fiscal calendar, not the default. Measures composed from base measures so changes propagate. Calculation groups for repeated patterns.
Tested, governed, shipped
RLS validated against test users. Workspaces follow dev → test → prod via deployment pipelines. Lineage and impact analysis before any breaking change.
Senior Power BI developer · no minimum engagement · weekly invoicing
Power BI development — common questions
Do you work with our existing Power BI workspace?
Yes. Most of our work is in client tenants. We add a guest account, follow your governance, and leave the workspace cleaner than we found it.
Can you fix a model someone else built?
Often. We start with a 2-hour audit: model integrity, DAX hygiene, performance. Then we'll quote the rebuild or remediation honestly.
Is $100/hr the all-in price?
Yes. No setup, no per-dashboard markup, no surprise PMO fee. The hourly rate is the rate.
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Services that compound with Power BI development
Most engagements pull from more than one discipline. Here's what frequently ships alongside power bi development.
Power Platform development
Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Copilot Studio.
Data engineering & pipelines
dbt, Fivetran, Airbyte, Snowflake, BigQuery — warehouses that work.
Data analyst on demand
Looker, Tableau, GA4, Mixpanel — analyst-grade work without the headcount.
The cost of waiting
is your competitor.
Every 90 days you delay is 90 days of authority compounding for someone else. Get the audit. See the math. Then decide.