Power BI Consulting for Lexington, KY Head Offices, Practices and Bluegrass Businesses
Lexington runs on an unusual mix: corporate head offices, a large academic health system, horse farms, distilleries and thousands of professional firms. What they share is a monthly report built from too many exports. We replace it with a Power BI model that refreshes itself, and help with the Microsoft 365 setup around it, remotely.
Most enquiries for Power BI consulting in Lexington KY start the same way: the finance lead, practice manager or farm office spends the first days of every month exporting, pasting and checking before anyone can read the numbers. Lightray Solutions builds the Power BI model that does that work on a schedule, for Lexington head offices, medical and dental practices, professional firms, horse farms and spirits producers.
Edward Pinela, MBA, is the consultant on every session, working remotely from Lightray's business address in Fullerton, California. A free 30-minute strategy call comes first. After it, you choose a prepaid Power BI Flex Support block, from $2,500 for 20 senior hours, or a fixed-scope project with the price agreed in advance. If you don't like working with us within the first 4 hours, you get your money back.
“Amazing! Lightray Solutions built us a Power BI dashboard based on my busy restaurant’s quickbooks data that allows me to see my entire business on a daily basis which has been a game-changer! Excellent communication and service!”
— Quinn R., Google review
What does Lexington's economy ask of a Power BI consultant?
Range. Commerce Lexington counts over 70 headquarter operations in Greater Lexington, including Lexmark, Alltech, Tempur-Sealy and Valvoline, and over 3,000 business and professional services companies. A head-office finance team and a ten-person engineering firm need different reports, but both need them without a full-time BI developer.
Health care is the largest employer of residents. Data USA's Lexington-Fayette profile lists health care and social assistance (26,754 people) ahead of educational services and retail trade in 2024. Around the hospitals sit the private practices and clinics whose revenue cycle data rarely reaches a readable report.
Which Lexington businesses do you build Power BI for?
Organizations with real data and no one whose job is to model it. The table shows five Lexington profiles and where each usually starts. A first build reads one to three sources, is checked against a month that has already been closed and signed off, and is laid out for the person who has to act on it rather than the person who prepares it.
| Lexington business | Current data sources | First Power BI report |
|---|---|---|
| Thoroughbred farms and equine service businesses | Farm-management or accounting software, vet and board invoices | Cost per horse by category and receivables by owner |
| Distilleries and spirits brands | Production and barrel records, ERP, distributor depletion reports | Barrel inventory by age and warehouse, with depletions by market |
| Independent physician, dental and physical-therapy practices | Practice-management exports, payroll, payer remittances | Denial rate, days in receivables and visits per provider |
| Head-office finance and department teams | ERP or finance extracts, SharePoint lists, CRM | Monthly management pack that drills from company to department |
| Engineering, construction and professional firms | Project accounting, time entry, CRM | Backlog, billing against budget and margin by project |
Do you also provide IT consulting in Lexington?
Yes, within limits worth stating plainly. Beyond Power BI, Lightray does project-based technology consulting, all of it remote: Microsoft 365 consulting (tenant cleanup, Teams and SharePoint structure, multi-factor sign-in), workflow automation with Power Automate, and fractional technology leadership for owners who need someone to own the roadmap and vendor decisions a few days a month. Those services are scoped and quoted after the same free call.
What we do not do is managed IT. There is no help desk, no laptop or network support and no one to send to your building. If that is what you need, keep or hire a local IT provider; we regularly work alongside one, handling the Microsoft 365, automation or reporting layer and documenting it so they can support it. And we are not general management consultants: our advice is about systems and data, not strategy or operations at large.
- Microsoft 365 reviews, tenant cleanup and security defaults
- Teams and SharePoint structure that matches how the business actually works
- Power Automate flows that replace copy-and-paste between systems
- Fractional technology leadership: roadmap, budget and vendor oversight
- Power BI reporting built on top of the cleaned-up Microsoft 365 environment
What does Power BI consulting cost in Lexington?
Flex Support is $100 to $125 per senior hour, in prepaid blocks of 20, 40 or 80 hours that never run out; the 20-hour block is $2,500. Fixed-scope work, such as a monthly management pack for a head-office team, is quoted after the strategy call so the total is agreed before anything is built. The rate does not change by city because nothing is delivered on site.
Microsoft licenses are billed by Microsoft. Its license type overview on Microsoft Learn gives Power BI Pro at $14 per user per month and Premium Per User at $24. A practice group sharing reports with 30 providers and managers would pay about $420 a month for Pro.
Why choose Lightray for Power BI in Lexington?
One senior consultant takes the work from the strategy call to the handover and training, so the person who understood your data on day one is the person who finishes it. Edward's experience runs to 20+ years and 200+ projects in data and web work, and Lightray holds an A+ BBB rating alongside a 4.9 Google rating. The 4-hour money-back guarantee applies to Power BI work.
Nearby, see Power BI consulting in Louisville, Cincinnati and Knoxville. The Power BI consulting services page describes the full service, and the Power BI consulting locations list covers every other city.
Further reading: Microsoft Learn — Power BI license types.
Ready to stop rebuilding the monthly report?
Book a free 30-minute call with Edward Pinela, MBA. You get an honest read on what to fix first — and if we are not the right fit, you will hear that on the call.
Frequently asked questions
Do you have a Lexington office?
No. Lightray has no office or staff in Kentucky. The business address is in Fullerton, California, and all work is remote over video and screen share in your own Microsoft tenant. Sessions are scheduled in Eastern time, usually in the morning so they fit around your day.
Can you work alongside our current IT provider?
Yes, and it is the usual arrangement. Your provider keeps devices, networks and the help desk; we handle the Power BI, Microsoft 365 or automation project, agree access with them up front, and hand over documentation at the end so they can support what we built.
How do we pay for Power BI work?
Either by prepaying a Flex Support block, the smallest being $2,500 for 20 senior hours, or by approving a fixed price for a defined project after the strategy call. Blocks never expire, so leftover hours cover later changes. Microsoft invoices Power BI licenses on its own.
Will our staff be able to maintain the reports?
That is the aim. Every model is documented, measures are named in plain language, and the handover includes a training session for whoever takes over routine changes. If something larger comes up later, Flex Support hours cover it without a new contract.
What does the money-back guarantee cover?
Power BI work: if you don't like working with us within the first 4 hours, you get your money back. It does not extend to Microsoft 365, automation or fractional technology work, which are scoped and priced separately after the strategy call.
You Won’t Get Handed Off to Junior Staff.
At most consulting firms, the senior person who sold you shows up for the kickoff — then you get handed to a team of juniors learning on your dime. That’s not how we work.
When you hire Lightray Solutions, you work directly with Edward Pinela, MBA — a principal consultant with 20+ years of experience across Power BI, web development, SEO, and CRM systems. Edward architects every engagement personally, stays involved through delivery, and answers his own phone.
Read Edward’s Full Bio“Mid-market companies deserve senior-level expertise without paying enterprise-agency prices. That’s the gap Lightray fills.”
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