# Duncan Boyne · Power BI Consultant

Last updated: 2026-08-15
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> Duncan Boyne is a UK Power BI consultant based in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, serving Norwich, East Anglia and the wider UK (remote and on-site). "I'm the bridge between 'we have this data' and 'we know what to do with it.'" He helps businesses turn data scattered across ERPs, CRMs, SQL databases and spreadsheets into audit-ready, decision-ready Power BI reporting that leaders trust. His differentiator is combining proper data modelling underneath with design thinking on top: visual hierarchy, colour theory and accessibility. Every figure reconciles back to source to the penny.

## Services

- [All services and prices, side by side](https://duncanboyne.co.uk/services/): Every engagement in one place with its published price: Power BI Health Check £950, AI-Ready Power BI Assessment £2,950, Fabric Readiness Assessment £5,950, Reporting Sprint £9,500, Report Migration £600 per report with a minimum of ten, Legacy System Archive from £1,950, Reporting Care Plan from £250 a month, and Training & Unblocking from £100. Fixed prices wherever the job allows one, no day rates on the assessments, and every assessment fee credits against the work that follows it.
- [Power BI Health Check](https://duncanboyne.co.uk/power-bi-health-check/): Fixed-price, scored review of a Power BI estate covering data model, measures, logic, performance, security and design, with a prioritised roadmap. Six areas, eight scored checks in each, every check returning Healthy, Watch or Critical against a written standard. £950 flat fee. Scored report card within five working days.
- [AI-Ready Power BI Assessment](https://duncanboyne.co.uk/ai-ready-power-bi/): A fixed-price £2,950 assessment, five working days, of whether a semantic model will give Microsoft Copilot correct answers. Copilot inherits a model rather than fixing it, so ambiguous field names, missing descriptions, absent synonyms and untrusted measures become confident wrong answers. Deliverables: a scored readiness report per model, a ranked remediation list, and an evaluation harness of thirty real business questions with verified expected answers run before and after changes so readiness is a measurable pass rate. Also includes Copilot capacity and licence cost modelling and tenant access recommendations. Covers up to three semantic models, £650 per additional model. Fee credited in full against remediation booked within 90 days.
- [Fabric Readiness Assessment](https://duncanboyne.co.uk/fabric-readiness-assessment/): A fixed-price £5,950 Microsoft Fabric readiness assessment, five days of work over about three weeks, delivered as a Microsoft Partner. Answers what capacity is genuinely needed, what it costs over three years, and which parts of an estate should not migrate. Deliverables: a re-runnable maturity benchmark, a target architecture with the reasoning recorded, capacity sizing modelled on real refresh patterns and user counts, a three-year total cost model, a 90-day plan, an 18-month roadmap, a skills and operating model gap list, and an executive deck. Equally useful as evidence for delaying or reducing a migration. Half the fee comes off a migration booked within 90 days.
- [Reporting System Build](https://duncanboyne.co.uk/reporting-system-build/): A properly modelled Power BI reporting system across ERP, CRM, SQL and spreadsheets, with trusted measures and reports designed to be used. Available two ways: a Reporting Sprint at £9,500 fixed, live in three weeks, capped at up to three source systems, one documented semantic layer, up to eight report pages, row-level security tested against real roles, a reconciliation pack and two handover sessions; or larger multi-department builds scoped per project after discovery.
- [Report Migration](https://duncanboyne.co.uk/report-migration/): Tableau, Qlik, SSRS or spreadsheet reporting migrated to Power BI at a published rate of £600 per report, minimum ten reports, so from £6,000. A free one-day assessment produces the report inventory and a fixed total before commitment. Like-for-like rebuild or a redesign at the same price. Consolidates duplicated logic into one shared semantic model and reports where existing definitions disagree. Every migrated figure validated side by side against the original, plus a retirement plan for the old platform with the licence saving quantified.
- [Legacy System Archive](https://duncanboyne.co.uk/legacy-erp-audit-archive/): Turns a retired or about-to-be-retired system into a queryable Power BI reporting archive with an audit pack ready to produce on request, so the old system can be switched off and stop costing money while the history stays available to auditors, HMRC and finance. Two variants because they are different jobs: a single-system archive from £1,950 (CRM, operational or small finance systems, reconciled on record counts and key totals), and a finance-grade archive from £6,500 (trial balance, P&L, balance sheet, drill down to transaction level, reconciled back to source at £0 variance or it does not ship). Multi-company or heavily customised estates are quoted after a look at the database. Works with Sage, Dynamics, Epicor, Infor, bespoke SQL systems and most CRMs, and with a system already switched off using only a backup file. Read-only throughout, nothing written back. The archive is delivered into the client's own Power BI tenant and the data stays with them; retaining a restorable copy of the original database is not offered.
- [Reporting Care Plan](https://duncanboyne.co.uk/power-bi-support/): A rolling monthly Power BI care plan in three tiers, cancel any time, always answered by Duncan rather than a ticket queue. Watch at £250 a month: refresh failure monitoring and alerting, a scored monthly health report tracked over time, any failure diagnosed within 24 hours, priority email, and no build hours included. Care at £750 a month: everything in Watch plus one request at a time with no cap on how many across the month, fixes back within 48 hours, up to four hours of build work and a quarterly model review. Partner at £1,500 a month: two requests in flight at once, up to ten hours, a monthly working session and ownership of the reporting roadmap. Capacity is sold as concurrent requests rather than an hour count. Hours never roll over on any tier.
- [Training & Unblocking](https://duncanboyne.co.uk/power-bi-training/): £100 unblocking sessions for developers and consultants, plus training days built on the client's own data: a half-day prep (licences, installs, data access, tailoring), then one or two days at any level. Focus options: a first look at Power BI, report design (visual hierarchy, colour theory, accessibility), wireframing and report planning, semantic modelling, getting and transforming data, and DAX. From £750, online or in person.

## Key facts

- Name: Duncan Boyne
- Role: Power BI consultant (founder-led consultancy)
- Location: Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, United Kingdom
- Serves: Norfolk, Norwich, East Anglia and the wider UK; remote and on-site
- Specialisms: Power BI, DAX, data modelling, Sage 200 reporting, report design, data visualisation
- Guarantee: if a reporting build does not reconcile back to source, it does not ship. On financial reporting that means £0 trial-balance variance, to the penny.
- Independent: sells no Sage licences, Microsoft seats or software, so advice is never shaped by resale commission.
- Accessibility: every report ships accessible by default (passing contrast, alt text on every visual, colour never the only signal, screen-reader-friendly order). Duncan speaks on accessible report design at conferences and builds to a higher standard than typical dashboards.
- Community: Founder of the Norfolk Power Platform User Group and the East of England Power Platform Summit
- Contact: Duncan@duncanboyne.co.uk
- Invoices and accounts: emily@duncanboyne.co.uk

## Free tools

- [Data Quality Health Check](https://duncanboyne.co.uk/data-quality-health-check/): A free one-page Power BI dashboard that checks accounts or CRM data for the issues an AI assistant will repeat as fact. Scores the data out of 100, ranks issues by what they cost rather than by row count, and names real examples from the user's own records. Runs entirely on the user's own machine and sends nothing back. Supports Sage 50, Xero, QuickBooks Online, Business Central, Salesforce, HubSpot, Dynamics 365 Sales, Shopify and any spreadsheet.
- [Data Quality dashboards, live on demo data](https://duncanboyne.co.uk/data-quality-dashboards/): The same dashboards running interactively on fictional company data. No download and no email required.
- [Report Trust Checklist](https://duncanboyne.co.uk/report-trust-checklist/): Free two-page checklist: the twelve checks that decide whether reporting gets trusted, with a scoring system.

## More

- [About](https://duncanboyne.co.uk/about/): Background, approach and philosophy.
- [Portfolio](https://duncanboyne.co.uk/portfolio/): Live, interactive Power BI reports from real projects, on anonymised or fictional data.
- [Speaking](https://duncanboyne.co.uk/speaking/): Conference and user-group talks across the UK and Europe.
- [Photo gallery](https://duncanboyne.co.uk/gallery/): Photos of Duncan speaking at conferences and user groups.
- [FAQ](https://duncanboyne.co.uk/faq/): Straight answers on pricing, process, access and security.
- [Blog](https://duncanboyne.co.uk/blog/): Writing on Power BI, data modelling, report design and AI. RSS feed at https://duncanboyne.co.uk/rss.xml
- [Contact](https://duncanboyne.co.uk/contact/): Book a free 20-minute intro call or send a message.