From dashboards to dialogue. From data to AI-readiness.
Strategic BI for Thinking Organisations.
We help teams clean up their data, build smarter dashboards, and get ready for AI-driven decisions—with clarity and confidence.
Discover how to turn your data into insight—and your insight into action.
What We Help Businesses Do
▲ Organise their data into clean, scalable systems.
▲ Build smarter dashboards that lead to real conversations and better decisions.
▲ Get ready for AI-driven analytics with future-proof BI architecture.
▲ Empower SaaS and subscription businesses to track, forecast, and optimise key metrics like ARR, MRR, churn, and growth levers.
Whether you're buried in spreadsheets, struggling with outdated dashboards, or preparing to adopt tools like Microsoft Copilot, we help you build the foundation for real insight—and real action.
Why Work With Me
I'm Sean Quinlivan, founder of Ascendant Analytics.
I work with SaaS and subscription businesses to modernise their BI systems—not just to move faster, but to make better decisions.
With over a decade of experience in BI architecture, executive analytics, and strategic insight design, I now specialise in building AI-optimised BI systems that support clarity, critical thinking, and high-quality action.
Today’s dashboards aren’t just built for human eyes—they need to speak to AI chatbots, intelligent agents, and reasoning systems.
At Ascendant Analytics, we help organisations modernise their BI architecture to enable AI-powered dialogue, decision-making, and strategic insight. That means:
AI-Optimised BI Systems
▲ Well-governed Semantic Models
▲ Clean, Scalable Data Layers (Power BI + Fabric)
▲ Prompt-Friendly KPIs + Metadata Structure
▲ Dashboards Designed for Dialogue and Decision
The Socratic Dashboard Method™
Inspired by philosophy. Built for BI.
The Socratic Dashboard Method™ is our design framework for transforming static reporting into a catalyst for strategic dialogue. It helps organisations reframe how they build dashboards—by starting with purpose, guiding curiosity, and prompting executive reasoning.
Who we are
Ascendent Analytics is a strategic BI consultancy specialising in Microsoft Fabric, semantic modeling, and AI-augmented reasoning.
We focus on helping SaaS companies and subscription businesses modernise their BI systems—so they can move beyond static reporting, predict growth more accurately, and build truly thinking organisations.
