Power Apps. Power Automate. Power BI. They're already inside your Microsoft 365 license. You're paying for them every single month. Yet your team tracks leave in a shared spreadsheet, routes approvals through email chains, and builds reports by copying data between tabs. That gap between what you're paying for and what you're using? That's money walking out the door every week.
Pick any process your team handles manually: leave approvals, vendor onboarding, expense reporting, asset tracking. Now multiply the time it takes by the number of times it happens, by the hourly cost of the people doing it. The number is always worse than you expect.
These are conservative estimates. Most clients find the real numbers are worse once we map every step of their manual workflows.
I don't need to guess. These are the exact processes clients bring to me, described in the exact language their operations managers use during our first call.
A purchase request gets emailed to a manager. The manager forwards it to finance. Finance replies with a question. The original requester responds to the wrong thread. Nobody knows where the request stands. Three days later, someone sends a "gentle follow-up." This loop repeats for every single approval in your company. It doesn't have to.
Every Monday morning, someone downloads data from three systems, copies it into a master Excel file, applies formulas, and sends a summary to leadership. The process takes four hours. The data is already outdated by the time it arrives. If that person goes on leave, nobody knows how the report works.
Employee onboarding forms. Vendor registration documents. Expense claim sheets. Printed, filled by hand, scanned, emailed to HR, then manually entered into a system. In 2026. Every one of these could be a Power App that captures data directly into SharePoint with zero paper and zero re-entry.
Contract renewals that expire because nobody set a reminder. Compliance reviews that miss deadlines because the calendar entry was on one person's Outlook. Vendor payments that are late because the invoice sat in an inbox. Your business runs on human memory, which is the most unreliable system in your entire stack.
Sales data in the CRM. Project hours in a spreadsheet. Customer feedback in a shared drive. Financial actuals in the accounting system. Leadership wants a unified view, but getting it requires emailing four department heads and waiting three days. The data exists. The connections don't.
If even two resonated, a 30-minute conversation could map the path to eliminating them.
Most consultants specialize in one. That means you hire three people, coordinate between them, and hope the solutions they build actually talk to each other. With me, the entire Power Platform stack is designed as a single, connected system.
Custom business applications built on Microsoft's low-code platform. Mobile-friendly. Connected to SharePoint, Dataverse, and your existing data sources. Designed so your business users can maintain them after I leave.
Automated workflows that trigger, route, approve, notify, and log without anyone lifting a finger. Connected to 400+ data sources out of the box. From simple approval chains to complex multi-stage business processes.
Interactive dashboards that pull data from wherever it lives and present it in a format leadership can actually use. No more Monday morning spreadsheet marathons. Real-time visibility into the metrics that drive decisions.
These are the kinds of solutions I build every month. Each one started as a frustrated Slack message or a "there has to be a better way" moment during a team meeting.
Paper forms, email chains, and manual data entry replaced with a Power App that captures vendor details, triggers compliance checks via Power Automate, routes for approval, and updates the master vendor list in SharePoint automatically.
Shared Excel file replaced with a mobile Power App. Employees submit leave requests from their phone. Manager approves with one tap. Balance updates automatically. HR has a Power BI dashboard showing leave patterns across the organization.
Expense submission through a Power App with receipt photo upload. Auto-routing to the right approver based on amount and category. Power BI dashboard tracks spend by department, category, and month. Finance closes the books two days faster.
Internal IT helpdesk built entirely in Power Apps with SharePoint as the backend. Ticket submission, assignment, SLA tracking, and resolution logging. Power BI dashboard shows ticket volume, resolution time, and recurring issues. No Jira license needed.
Quarterly compliance audits tracked through Power Apps with photo evidence capture. Power Automate sends reminders 30, 15, and 7 days before deadlines. Non-compliance triggers automatic escalation. Leadership gets a real-time compliance scorecard in Power BI.
Executive Power BI dashboard pulling data from CRM, project management tool, HR system, and financial software. Auto-refreshed. Interactive. Accessible on mobile. Leadership stopped asking "can someone pull the numbers?" because the numbers are always current.
I sit with the people who actually do the work. Not just managers. The person who fills in that spreadsheet every day. The admin who forwards approval emails. I map every step, every handoff, every bottleneck. Then I identify which steps add value and which ones are pure waste.
Based on the process map, I design the target solution: which parts become a Power App, which parts become a Power Automate flow, and what the Power BI dashboard should surface. You see wireframes and data flow diagrams before a single line of configuration begins. No surprises.
Agile build in weekly sprints. You see working features every week, not just a final reveal after six weeks. Each sprint includes a review session where your team tests the solution and provides feedback. Changes happen in real time, not through a change request process that takes three weeks.
The people who will use this daily test it with real data, in real scenarios. Not a demo environment. Not sample data. Their actual invoices, their actual leave requests, their actual reports. Issues found here cost nothing to fix. Issues found post-launch cost trust.
Coordinated rollout with role-specific training. The finance team learns the expense app. The managers learn the approval flow. IT learns the admin panel. Everyone gets documentation they can reference later. Your team owns the solution from day one.
"The Power Automate workflows Darshana built eliminated 22 hours of manual work per week across our operations team. The ROI was visible within the first month. Beyond the technical skill, she made our non-technical team feel confident and included throughout the entire process."
Every manual process in your organization is a choice. You can keep choosing it. Or you can spend 30 minutes on a call with me, identify the three biggest time drains, and see what it would take to eliminate them permanently. The tools are already in your license. The only thing missing is someone who knows how to wire them together.