SixFiftyThree Consulting LLC is a data consulting firm serving northern Illinois, helping small and mid-sized businesses make sense of their data, control their costs, and operate more efficiently.
Roughly the order the work happens in. Most businesses start near the top and stop when they have the answer they came for.
Not sure which of these you need? We profile your data, score how healthy it is, and hand you a ranked list of what it is costing you today. It is the fastest way to find out whether the data is the problem.
Explore Data Health Check
Your data lives in five places, and no one agrees on the numbers. We build the ownership, definitions, and structure that turns scattered records into a single source of truth you can act on.
Explore Data Governance
Dashboards that take an hour to build and are already outdated when they land are not intelligence, they're overhead. We design BI systems that surface the right numbers in real time, without manual assembly.
Explore Business Intelligence
Revenue looks fine, but the margin math doesn't add up. We use price volume mix analysis and financial modeling to show you exactly which products, customers, and channels are actually making you money.
Explore Profitability Analysis
Making decisions based on what already happened puts you a step behind. We build churn prediction, demand forecasting, and lifetime value models so you can plan ahead instead of react.
Explore Predictive Analytics
If your team is still doing manually what a system should handle automatically, that's a cost problem. We identify the workflows consuming the most time and redesign them so the business runs with less drag.
Explore Operations Optimization
The same report gets rebuilt by hand every Monday and a stack of invoices waits for someone to key it in. We find the tasks eating your week and automate them with the right tools, off-the-shelf where it fits and custom only where it pays for itself.
Explore AI and Automation
You need someone to lead your data strategy, align the tools, and move the team forward, but not a full-time executive salary to go with it. We provide that leadership on a fractional basis.
Explore Fractional CDONumbers are piling up in spreadsheets, reports take hours to produce, and the question, "Where are we actually making money?", still doesn't have a clean answer. Every business we work with is different, but the problems repeat.
Start with the problem that costs you the most time or money right now. If your reports contradict each other, that's a data governance problem. If your revenue looks fine but profit doesn't, that's a profitability problem. If you're manually running the same reports every week, that's an operations problem. Pick the one that sounds like your Monday morning.
Yes. We work throughout northern Illinois, including Chicago, Gurnee, Libertyville, Waukegan, Grayslake, and Antioch, and we work remotely with businesses outside the region. If you have a data or operations problem worth solving, we're available to talk.
It depends on where you are. Some clients start with data governance because nothing else works well without clean data underneath it. Others come in through profitability or business intelligence and add services as the engagement matures. We scope each engagement to what your business can actually absorb and act on right now.
Small to mid-sized businesses, generally owner-operated or leadership-run companies with between five and a few hundred employees. These are businesses that have real data and real complexity but haven't hired a data team. They need the thinking without the full-time overhead.
A structured conversation, usually 30 to 45 minutes, where we ask questions about how your business currently collects, stores, and uses data. At the end, you'll have a clear picture of where your biggest data gaps are and which service area is most likely to move the needle fastest. No pitch, no obligation.
A 30-to-45-minute conversation where we map where your data stands and which service area is most likely to help first. No obligation. Every inquiry gets a reply, usually within one business day.
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