Work with me · the arithmetic
Your Tableau line item, against the build and the bench.
The license is rarely the cost. The cost is the seats plus the person who keeps the workbooks alive, and the five dashboards that do most of the work are usually the ones nobody has touched in a year. Type your numbers in. The page says stay when staying is cheaper.
What do you actually pay today?
The arithmetic
- Seats a year
- $40,680
- Upkeep a year
- $40,800
- Your line item, a year
- $81,480
- Year one with me: build + 12 months of bench
- $66,000
- Every year after: the bench, 10 hours a month
- $36,000
- Saves a year, after year one
- $45,480
- The $30,000 build pays back in
- 8 months
Move. The build pays for itself inside two years, and every year after that is the saving. Send the seat count.
What moves, and what doesn’t
What the build moves
The five to ten dashboards the company actually opens, rebuilt on your warehouse with the definitions in your repo, tested, with the lineage written down. The refreshes run on a schedule with an alert when a feed goes stale, the same fleet that keeps this site current. Everything on the dashboards shelf is built that way, in the open.
What it leaves alone
The long tail. If you have four hundred workbooks, SSO, row-level security across departments, and a BI team whose job is that stack, this is not the page for you, and I will say so in my first reply. The buyer this fits has $3,000 a month in seats and upkeep, five dashboards that matter, and nobody who owns them.
Send the seat count
Here from a role page
Tell me about the req and I’ll reply with a scope, not a sales call — the 90-day build, the founding rate, and what the first two weeks would ship.
Seats, who keeps the workbooks alive, and the three dashboards people fight over. I reply with the arithmetic on your numbers and a scope, or with “stay” if staying is cheaper.