Experience
We have run the work. Not just reported on it.
Quirk’d Analytics is founder-led and deliberately small. The people you meet are the people who do the work — and the work started long before the software.
The founder
From the tools, to the controls, to the software.
Mike started in the field as a craftsman, working the physical reality of industrial construction: fit-up, tolerance, sequence, and the difference between a plan on paper and a plan that can be executed.
From there he moved into corporate turnaround project controls and systems management at a major US refiner — owning scope development, cost and schedule control, KPI design and the reporting systems that leadership used to make the call on a multi-hundred-million-dollar event.
Quirk’d Analytics is the third step: consulting and software for the same problem set, built by someone who has been on both sides of the table and knows where the numbers break.
The path
Three steps, one direction.
- 01
Field Craftsman
Learned the work with tools in hand: fit-up, tolerance, sequence, and what a schedule actually costs when a bolt will not line up.
- 02
Corporate Turnaround Project Controls & Systems Manager
At a major US refiner: scope development, cost and schedule control, KPI design, and the reporting systems leadership relied on to make the call.
- 03
Founder, Quirk’d Analytics
Consulting and fit-for-purpose software for the same work, built with two decades of context behind every decision.
What it means for you
Experience shows up in the details you would otherwise have to learn the hard way.
Scope is argued with evidence
We know what a line item costs when it slips and which owner notices first, because we have carried the number.
Controls are built for the people running them
A reporting model that nobody trusts at 6 a.m. is a reporting model that gets bypassed by noon.
Software is judged on adoption
If a tool adds a step without removing two, it does not ship. Fit-for-purpose means it fits the shift.
How we work
Four rules we do not bend.
Experience first, tools second
The judgment comes from having run the work. The software exists to give that judgment more room.
Human-in-the-loop on every decision
Systems prepare recommendations and show their basis. A person approves. Nothing moves on its own.
Private-first, offline where required
When data cannot leave the site, the tool runs locally. No cloud dependency in the critical path.
No sales layer, no junior bench
You work with the person doing the work. No account managers, no learning curve billed to you.