Workflow demonstration
Validated dataset to dashboard
From scattered data to a dashboard people trust: validate first, define every measure, then build.
05steps, in order
The run, step by step
- Standing
- Runnable today
- Accepts
- Your data exportsThe decisions the dashboard serves
- Produces
- Reconciliation and exception logKPI dictionaryDashboard and runbook

The steps, and what each produces.
Runnable today with the free tools; delivered in full as dashboards and MEL reporting.
- 01
Gather inputs
Sources, owners and access listed.
- 02
Validate and reconcile
Duplicates, gaps and impossible values logged.
- 03
Define the measures
Each KPI with its formula, owner and refresh.
- 04
Build
The model and the dashboard.
- 05
Accept and hand over
Tested by users; runbook handed over.
Inputs, outputs and safeguards
Accepts
- Your data exports
- The decisions the dashboard serves
Produces
- Reconciliation and exception log
- KPI dictionary
- Dashboard and runbook
Fails safely
- Missing values stay missing, never zero.
- Totals that do not reconcile block publication until explained.
Where a person decidesThe people who will use the dashboard accept it; figures are never changed to make totals match.
Run parts of it yourself.
These free tools are the working steps of this workflow.
Donor report reconciliation tool
Paste your results records and the totals you plan to report. The workbench sums each indicator from the records, compares it with the reported total, and logs every missing, duplicate or impossible value instead of quietly fixing it. Try it with synthetic data first.
Open the tool Free toolKPI dictionary template
Define each indicator once: the decision it informs, the formula, unit, numerator and denominator, source, owner and how often it updates. The planner flags incomplete definitions and lays out the dashboard those indicators need.
Open the toolRelated services
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