We turn scattered data into the numbers your business runs on.
Birchbark builds the reporting, automation and systems behind growing companies: live dashboards, automated weekly reporting, custom apps and the IT leadership to hold it together. We build on Microsoft Azure and Power BI and put AI agents to work, so projects that used to take months ship in weeks.
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Fashion retail & live selling
Boutiques and social-commerce sellers: live-sale KPIs, ad ROAS by SKU, inventory velocity, customer retention.
E-commerce
Shopify, marketplaces and paid media joined into true order profit, not just revenue.
Franchise & multi-territory operations
Territory P&Ls, bookings, royalty true-ups and weekly flash reporting across locations.
Food-service & commercial kitchen services
Route-based service businesses: scheduling, product usage, waste-oil compliance and quality scores.
Field service & fleet
Technician time, GPS and fuel-card data, route profitability and customer self-service.
Construction & home exteriors
Roofing and exteriors contractors: estimating, ERP reporting, IT and multi-company integration after acquisitions.
From the data to the decision
Reporting that runs itself
Power BI dashboards and weekly flash reports that refresh on their own: profitability, margin, bookings, ad spend and ROAS, inventory and cash. No more copy and paste.
Data platforms
We connect ERP, accounting, payroll, e-commerce, ad platforms, telematics and field apps into one clean model on Microsoft Azure, with every metric defined once.
Custom apps & AI
Customer portals, two-way SMS, technician workflows, infrastructure monitoring and AI assistants, built fast and run on your own Microsoft cloud.
Fractional CIO
Senior IT leadership without the full-time hire: Microsoft 365 and security, licensing, vendor management, acquisitions and a roadmap the owners can follow.
What that looks like in practice
Weekly reporting, fully automated
Flash reports, bookings, cash forecasts and huddle decks now build themselves from QuickBooks, payroll, scheduling and fleet GPS, reconciled to the dollar every week.
Leak detection
Fuel-card purchases matched against vehicle GPS, time-clock punches checked against job sites, and product given away without an invoice flagged automatically.
Customer portal & SMS
A self-service customer portal with two-way texting, plus a text-message debrief for field technicians, running on the client’s own Azure.
AI estimating assistant
An AI assistant that produces estimates matching the senior estimator’s pricing model to the cent, behind company sign-in.
Infrastructure monitoring
An in-house monitoring platform with on-site probes, firewall log collection and a daily health digest, built instead of buying another subscription.
One view across acquisitions
A data lake that brings each acquired company’s ERP into a shared set of definitions, so leadership sees one set of numbers.
Built by an operator, not just a consultant
Tim Gallagher founded Social Retail Success (SRS), the business intelligence platform used by hundreds of fashion and live-selling retailers, which CommentSold acquired in 2021. He has run a retail business, served as a corporate CTO, and today serves as fractional CIO for multi-location service companies.
That mix is the point. Birchbark knows what the owner needs to see on Monday morning, and it has the technical depth to build it, automate it and keep it running.
Fixed fee, monthly, or time & materials
Discovery comes first, and it’s on us. You pick the engagement that fits: a fixed-fee build, a monthly managed service, or time and materials against weekly priorities.