Houston, Texas · Construction data · Power BI

Power BI Consulting in Houston

Dashboards for every role: project managers, division managers, controllers, VPs of finance, CFOs and COOs. Job cost, WIP and schedule, built on the data that’s already in your ERP. You’ll have a working version in two weeks.

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Proxsoft does Power BI consulting in Houston for construction companies. That’s general contractors, specialty trades, developers, heavy-civil firms and industrial operators. We build job cost, WIP, schedule and change order dashboards straight onto your NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Dynamics 365, Business Central, Acumatica, CMiC, QuickBooks, Procore or Primavera P6 data. Everything’s built by role, so owners, CFOs, controllers, division managers and project managers each open a view made for the decisions they’re making. A typical engagement runs four to six weeks. You’ll see a working dashboard on your own numbers in week two, and you’ll own the data model and the documentation at the end. We build inside the Power BI license you already hold.

At a glance

Service

Power BI consulting services in Houston, dashboard development and construction data analytics

Service area

Houston and the Gulf Coast, delivered remotely with on-site kickoff and handover

Who it serves

Owners, CFOs, COOs, controllers, division managers, project managers and operations leads

Company types

General contractors, specialty trades, heavy-civil firms, developers, industrial and EPC

Finance and ERP systems

NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Sage 300 CRE, Dynamics 365 Finance, Business Central, Acumatica, CMiC, QuickBooks

Project and scheduling platforms

Procore and Primavera P6

Typical timeline

First working dashboard in two weeks, full engagement four to six weeks

Ownership

You keep the data model, the documentation and the reports

Why are construction numbers always late?

Construction numbers arrive late because reporting runs after the close, not during the month. The data’s there the whole time. Getting it out in a form a PM will actually open is the step that’s skipped.
Houston runs on schedule. Turnarounds on the ship channel, Medical Center expansions, port work, the I-45 corridor. Every one of them depends on knowing where a job’s standing this week.

Most contractors here close the month and wait ten days. Then they find out margin slipped on a job that topped out three weeks back. By then the window’s shut.

That isn’t a discipline problem. The data was sitting in NetSuite or Sage Intacct or CMiC the whole time. Closing that gap’s what our Power BI consulting Houston practice does.

Houston‘s Construction Market

Here’s the thing about Houston right now. Construction is the strongest part of a slow job market. The Dallas Fed’s September 2026 report put Houston construction jobs up 5.2 percent in the year to July 2026, about 13,200 jobs, while total payrolls grew 0.5 percent and oil and gas shed 800 jobs. You’re adding crews into a market that’s tightening.

5.2%

Construction job growth Year to July 2026

13,200

Construction jobs added Approximately

And you can’t hire your way out of a reporting problem. The AGC 2026 Construction Hiring and Business Outlook found more than four out of five firms struggling to fill hourly craft positions, at 82 percent, or salaried openings at 80 percent. That’s higher than at any point in the past three years, AGC says. An analyst you can’t recruit won’t fix next month’s close.

82%

Firms struggling to fill hourly craft positions

80%

Firms struggling to fill salaried openings

What does a Power BI consultant build for a construction company?

A Power BI consultant builds four things for a construction company. Job cost against budget. A WIP schedule that reconciles to the ledger. Schedule and production tracking. Change order and retainage visibility. Each one runs on ERP data you’re already holding.

Dashboard

The question it answers

Source data

Job cost

Where is margin moving, by cost code, since last period?

ERP job cost, committed cost, budget

WIP schedule

What do we report to the bank and the surety this month?

Contract value, cost to date, billings

Construction project dashboard

Is the field ahead or behind the baseline?

Units installed, crew hours, equipment

Change orders and retainage

What have we earned but not billed?

Change order log, AR, retainage held

Every build starts with one construction KPI dashboard your leadership team will actually open on a Monday. It grows from there.

How is construction business intelligence different from generic BI?

Construction business intelligence isn’t generic BI, because construction accounting breaks the assumptions standard data models rest on. Revenue recognizes over time. Costs commit before they’re incurred. Jobs run across fiscal years. Retainage’s sitting on both sides of the ledger.

Plenty of firms will build you a Power BI dashboard. Far fewer have ever read a WIP schedule.

Cost codes are the other trap. Every PM’s using them slightly differently. No model survives that unless somebody writes the rules down.

Get it wrong and the dashboard looks excellent and reconciles to nothing.

Question to ask any Power BI partner

Proxsoft’s answer

Do you start from a construction data model?

Yes: job cost, WIP and retainage

Can you read a WIP schedule?

Yes

Does the model reconcile to the ledger?

Yes, from day one

When do we see a working dashboard?

Two weeks, on your own data

Who owns the result?

You, with documentation

Ongoing cost

Project, then optional support

What can AI actually do with construction data?

AI’s useful for four things in construction reporting right now. Asking a dashboard questions in plain English through Power BI Copilot. Sending reports out without anyone running them. Restricting what each person sees. Forecasting cost at completion where there’s enough clean history. It isn’t useful for fixing cost codes nobody’s maintained.

Ask the dashboard a question in plain English

Power BI Copilot lets a PM type “which jobs lost margin this month” and get an answer, instead of hunting through filters. It needs a paid Fabric or Premium capacity, which not every setup has. It works when the model underneath’s clean and the measures are named the way your team talks. It falls over when they aren’t. That’s why we build the model first.

Reports that arrive without anyone running them

Automated Power BI reports replace the Monday morning export. The WIP pack lands in the controller’s inbox before they sit down. Job cost alerts fire when committed cost moves past a threshold you set, so nobody has to go looking. Power BI automation is the least glamorous part of this work. It’s usually the first thing a finance team notices.

How fresh the numbers really are

Real-time’s a word vendors use loosely, so here’s the honest version. On Power BI Pro, a report’s data can refresh on a schedule up to eight times a day. On Premium or Fabric capacity, up to 48 times a day. We’ll confirm which capacity you’re on. Anything posted in a nightly batch is a day old, whatever the dashboard says. We’ll tell you which is which instead of labeling the lot live.

Everyone sees their own jobs, and only their own

Power BI row level security means a superintendent opens the same report as the CFO and only sees the jobs they’re running, when they open it as a viewer. Personalized dashboards by role follow from that. The CFO view leads on margin and cash. The PM view leads on cost codes and change orders. One model underneath, different front doors.

Built to grow with you

A semantic model that’s built properly will take a second entity, a new ERP or three more years of history without a rebuild. That matters now Microsoft Fabric’s changing how Power BI handles bigger construction datasets. We build it so the next change is an addition, not a restart.

Forecasting, where the data supports it

Construction forecasting software and predictive analytics only work on history that’s worth learning from. Give a model a few clean years of job cost and it’ll flag a job drifting toward profit fade before a human spots it. Give it two years of inconsistent cost coding and it won’t, and we’ll say so. For the wider picture there’s our work on AI use cases in construction and AI agents for the construction industry.

How long does a Power BI implementation take?

A Power BI implementation for a construction company runs four to six weeks for a single entity. You’ll get the first working dashboard, on your own data, in week two. Multi-entity consolidation with historical data takes longer.

Week one

We’ll go through your ERP, chart of accounts and cost code structure. Plus the three reports your team argues about most.

Weeks two to four

We build the data model, then the dashboards on top. You’ll see something working on your own numbers inside two weeks, not at the end.

Week five onward

We hand it over with documentation and train whoever’s going to own it. Then we stay reachable for the questions that turn up in month two.

As your Power BI implementation partner we work to your timeline, not a license renewal date. The build runs remotely. We’ll come to your Houston office when a kickoff or handover’s better done in a room.

Who in a construction company actually uses these dashboards?

Six roles use construction reporting day to day, and each one needs a different view of the same data. Owners want portfolio health. CFOs, VPs of finance and controllers want WIP and cash. COOs want production and crew. Division managers want their own division. PMs want their own jobs by cost code. IT wants refresh and security. One model sits underneath the lot.

Role

What they open it for

The first question they ask

Owner or president

Portfolio health across every job

Which jobs are drifting, and by how much?

CFO or controller

WIP, cash position, margin by division

What do we report to the bank this month?

Division manager

Their division’s jobs against plan

Is my division on plan, and which job isn’t?

Project manager

Their own jobs, down to the cost code

Where am I against budget this week?

COO or operations lead

Crew productivity and equipment use

Where is production slipping?

IT or systems lead

Refresh, security and license use

What does this cost us to run?

That’s why a project manager dashboard looks nothing like the CFO dashboard Power BI serves finance, and why a division manager dashboard sits between the two. Same numbers, same model, different question. We’ll build a construction management dashboard per role rather than one screen everybody argues over. Our blog goes deeper on the CFO view and the project manager view.

Which Houston construction companies is this built for?

This is built for Houston construction companies that already run a construction ERP, and already have Power BI Pro licenses, bought on their own or included in Microsoft 365 E5, but haven’t moved past the standard reports. That’s general contractors, specialty trades, heavy-civil and infrastructure firms, developers, and industrial or utility operators.

Made for

General contractors and specialty trades running NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Dynamics 365, Business Central, Acumatica or CMiC

Heavy-civil, infrastructure and utility firms reporting across long-duration jobs

Developers and owner-builders tracking cost across a portfolio rather than a single job

Industrial and EPC operators with turnaround and shutdown work on the ship channel

Finance teams with Power BI Pro licenses who never got past the standard reports

Companies running two to twenty entities that need consolidated reporting

Anyone who has outgrown their construction reporting software but isn’t ready to replace the ERP yet

Not for

Anyone who wants a dashboard with no data model underneath it

Projects with no ERP, where everything lives in spreadsheets

Teams looking for a demo before a conversation

Why work with Proxsoft rather than a general BI firm?

Proxsoft’s data work is built around construction. We build inside the Power BI license you already own, and we hand over the data model and documentation so you’re never locked in.

Construction first

We work in construction data. Not retail, not healthcare. You won’t spend the first call explaining your business.

Your stack, not ours

We build inside the Power BI license you’re already paying for. You don’t need to buy any software from us.

You own the result

Data model, documentation, the lot. Want to take it in-house next year? Nothing stops you.

Built on Microsoft’s current guidance

We build to Microsoft’s published guidance rather than a pattern that worked three years ago. That matters more than it did, now Fabric’s changing how Power BI handles construction data at scale. Microsoft’s own Power BI guidanc is where we start.

Questions Houston construction teams ask

Does Proxsoft work on-site in Houston?

The build runs remotely, which keeps your cost down. For kickoff and handover, a Proxsoft consultant can come to your Houston office.

What does Power BI consulting cost?

Power BI consulting’s priced by scope, not by the hour. It depends how many source systems are involved and how clean the cost coding is. A single-entity job cost build sits at the lower end. Multi-entity consolidation with messy history sits higher. You’ll get a fixed number before anything starts.

We already have Power BI. Why hire a Power BI developer?

Because the license was never the hard part. Most teams stall in the same spot. The standard reports run out, and the next step needs a data model rather than another chart. That’s what a Power BI consultant’s actually for.

How soon will we see a working dashboard?

Inside two weeks, running on your own data. Not a template with sample numbers in it.

Which construction ERPs does Proxsoft work with?

On the finance side that’s NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Sage 300 CRE, Dynamics 365 Finance, Business Central, Acumatica, CMiC and QuickBooks. On the project side, Procore and Primavera P6. Sage Intacct construction reporting and NetSuite Power BI builds come up most, and Procore integration’s usually part of the same job. If your system’s got a database or an API, we can usually read it.

Can you combine our ERP and our scheduling data?

Yes, and that’s usually where the value is. Cost sits in the ERP, schedule sits in Primavera P6 or Procore, so neither one will tell you whether a job’s behind and over at the same time. A model across both will. Business Central construction data joins the same way.

Do we need a data warehouse before Power BI?

Often not. Plenty of Power BI for construction work runs straight at the ERP with a properly built semantic model. If your volumes or history make a warehouse the right call, we’ll say so rather than sell you one by default.

Can you train our team to maintain it?

Yes. Handover training’s part of every engagement.

How does Proxsoft compare to other Power BI consulting firms?

Most are excellent generalists. Proxsoft focuses on construction. You’ll spend the first meeting on your WIP schedule, not explaining what retainage is.

Does Proxsoft only serve Houston?

Proxsoft works with construction companies across the US. The build runs remotely, so the same team serves Houston and the Gulf Coast. The problems don’t change much at the state line, as the Associated General Contractors of America data shows nationwide.

Let’s look at one report

Bring the report that doesn’t tie. Or the question your reporting can’t answer. Thirty minutes, no deck, and you’ll know whether this is worth doing.
That’s how every Power BI consulting Houston engagement we run starts. If it’s worth doing, you’ll have a working dashboard on your own numbers two weeks later.

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