Ashish M.

I work with business leaders to solve problems that genuinely move the business forward — not just build dashboards for their own sake. My experience spans startups, small and mid-sized consulting teams, and global firms including Accenture, CDW, Aon Hewitt, Michael Page, and Airbnb. In these settings, I have tried to work as an embedded partner — aligning analytics and technology with what the business actually needs, rather than what's technically interesting. I bring a mix of technical depth and business context: understanding the problem first, then translating it into data and AI solutions that are reliable and built to last. Over the years I've worked on 300+ projects, including clients like Upwork (hired directly), Accenture, Aon Hewitt, and CDW. My work sits across two areas — AI-powered systems and business intelligence & analytics — and increasingly the two overlap into decision systems that automate, analyze, and report together. Available during US & UK business hours for easy, timely communication. AI Systems I Build ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ → TalScan – AI Screening & Assessment Tools — LLM-powered CV matching, competency scoring, interview question generation → AI Research Agents — pipelines using the Claude API that search, analyse, and summarise information into structured reports → Intelligent Automation — Python + Power Automate + AI APIs to reduce manual, repetitive workflows → AI-Enhanced Dashboards — Power BI and Tableau builds with anomaly detection, forecasting, and AI-generated summaries → Custom LLM Integrations — Claude API and Groq connected to your data, documents, and internal systems → AI SaaS Products — full-stack AI application development from idea to production BI & Analytics I Deliver ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ → Executive KPI dashboards — Power BI · Tableau · Looker Studio → Automated data pipelines — Azure SQL · Azure Data Factory · ETL/ELT → Predictive analytics, forecasting, and anomaly detection → Decision support systems with alerts and exception-based reporting A Few Things I have Delivered ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ → Built TalScan, an AI SaaS platform, on my own, from idea to production → Helped reduce manual data handling by 80–100% for a few enterprise clients → Cut reporting cycles from about 7 days down to near real-time on one project → Contributed to a ~40% improvement in marketing ROI visibility through integrated BI → Was hired directly by Upwork for an 18-month automation & analytics engagement → Worked on delivery for Fortune 500 teams at Accenture and CDW How I Price ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Budgets are real, so I try to scope fixed-price work clearly upfront, so there's no surprise later. Typical fixed-price ranges ($3K–$15K depending on scope): · AI agent build (research, screening, automation) · Power BI / Tableau dashboard · Data pipeline & ETL automation · Combined AI + BI systems For hourly work, my rate is $50/hr for embedded or ongoing engagements. I generally work with project sizes of $1K and up, simply so I can give each engagement proper time and attention. How I Work ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ → I try to understand the business problem before writing any code → I scope clearly so there's no guesswork on cost → I like to validate early and iterate, so you see progress along the way → I aim to communicate clearly throughout, without you having to chase for updates Data informs. AI re-confirms. Humans act with clarity. I see my success in your growth. Happy to talk if this sounds like a fit.