TECH-DRIVEN BUSINESS OPTIMIZATION
Operational diagnostics, automations, and decision systems for SMB owner-operators tired of paying for tools that don't pay back.
THE PATTERN WE SEE
Most SMBs don't have a tech problem.
They have an operations problem.
You've bought the tools. You've hired the consultants.
You've sat through the strategy decks.
You still have three reports that disagree on revenue.
A forecast that lives in someone's head.
Eight hours of weekly reporting that nobody reads.
The gap isn't between you and the technology.
It's between the technology and your operations.
That's the gap we close.
CAPABILITIES
We pick the tool that solves the problem — not the tool that sells the package.
Find where hours and dollars leak in your operations. Quantify it before we touch a system — so the build is grounded in the ROI, not a guess.
Cut the manual repetition. Workflow tools, scripts, agents — whatever ships in the time we have. Measured by hours reclaimed, not features shipped.
Dashboards that change decisions. Not screens that look pretty in a board meeting. Built on the stack you already own.
Revenue forecasts. Inventory projections. Failure-mode risk scores. Audit-defensible math — production-grade, not science projects.
Stand up a new operation, or untangle one you've outgrown. We design the system end-to-end — process, stack, custom tools — and build what's needed. CRMs, intake systems, scheduling. Fit to your business, owned by you forever.
30 minutes with the founder. Tell us your situation. We tell you whether we can help and what it'd cost. Free — no pressure.
HOW WE WORK
We map your stack, your bottlenecks, and where the leverage hides. Output: a written assessment with prioritized opportunities and rough ROI.
Included in every engagement — not a separate paid product.
Included · 1 week
We build the system. Senior people only, no junior handoffs.
Production-grade from day one — wired into your real stack, not a demo environment. Measured by the outcome we agreed to ship.
Custom scope · 8-12 weeks
Adoption support, training, monitoring. We don't disappear after delivery.
Most engagements graduate to a maintenance retainer once the build is live.
Optional retainer · monthly
RECENT WORK
Anonymized for client confidentiality.
Specifics available on request under NDA.
Built a forward-looking revenue model tied to vessel survey milestones — cutting forecasting cycle time from 2 weeks to 2 days for a $1B+ revenue maritime services firm.
Python · SQL · Power BI · Microsoft Fabric
Designed a Power BI dashboard with embedded AI anomaly detection, automated alerts, and drill-through analysis — replacing 4 hours/week of manual variance reporting across 12 cost centers.
Power BI · Azure · SQL · Custom AI Layer
Consolidated three disparate reporting workflows into a single source of truth, automating end-of-week field engineering reports and reducing reporting overhead by 70%.
SQL · Power Automate · Power BI
THE FOUNDER
SalimIQ is led by Fares Al-Salim — an engineer who's spent his career inside the implementation, not the strategy deck. Currently also runs Arise Elevators, a real Houston commercial business with its own database, dashboards, and outbound pipeline.
Most recently leading data and forecasting at the American Bureau of Shipping — including SOFFT, an enterprise revenue forecasting initiative. Prior production work for some of the largest engineering operations in the world.
SalimIQ is what happens when that practitioner experience gets purpose-built for SMBs: end-to-end, senior-led, no junior handoffs, no theatrics.
If we take you on, you get the founder. That's the promise.
Previously: Meta · Capital One · HP · Victory Live · ABS
START HERE
30 minutes. We learn the situation.
You learn what's possible — and what it'd cost.
Free.
Engagements typically run $25K–$250K depending on scope.
Or email fares@salimiq.com directly.
Owner-operators of $1M-$50M businesses with manual hours eating real labor cost, data they're not using effectively, and a real budget for fixing it. We're not the cheapest option — we're the one that finishes the job.