North Keel Consulting
Keep your Salesforce org steady and on course.
North Keel Consulting helps nonprofits and small organizations get dependable reporting, automation and integrations out of Salesforce. You work directly with the consultant doing the build, from the first call to the final handoff.
What we can take off your plate
Whether you need a single fix or a longer build, the work is scoped up front, tested in a sandbox first and documented so your team can maintain it.
Reports & dashboards
Dashboards leadership can trust, including cohort views, month-over-month summaries and repayment or pipeline tracking built on clean, well-defined data.
Automation & rollups
Flows, scheduled jobs and Apex that replace manual spreadsheet work. Includes monitoring, so an automation that quietly stops running gets noticed.
Integrations
Connecting Salesforce to web forms, loan and case platforms and other outside systems, with clear error handling and a paper trail.
Custom components
Lightning Web Components and Apex for when standard tools fall short, such as spreadsheet-style tables, custom record pages and guided workflows.
Security & release readiness
Reviews of Salesforce release updates, MFA and access settings, and field-level security, written up in plain language you can share with your board or auditors.
Data cleanup & ongoing admin
Duplicate merges, data fixes backed by rollback scripts, and ongoing admin support on a monthly retainer.
Careful by default
Your Salesforce org runs your operations, so changes should be predictable, reversible and easy to understand.
Understand
We start with how your team actually works and which numbers matter, not a feature list.
Build in a sandbox
Everything is built and tested in a sandbox. Production is only for deploying finished, verified work.
Verify with real data
Results are checked against your actual records before go-live, and every data change has a rollback plan.
Hand off
You get documentation, version-controlled source and a walkthrough, so the work doesn't depend on us.
Recent projects
Client details are kept confidential. Here is the kind of work we do.
Repayment cohort dashboard
Leadership needed to compare repayment performance across loan cohorts, but the numbers lived in scattered reports and one-off exports.
- Built a monthly repayment rollup with new- and legacy-cohort splits and a near-live refresh
- Added dashboard-wide filters so every chart updates together
- Excluded deferred and forgiven loans so the totals match how the business defines them
Loan platform integration
Loan data was being re-keyed by hand between Salesforce and an external loan-servicing platform.
- Designed and built a two-way integration, tested end to end in a sandbox
- Documented the known limits and fallback steps before launch
- Quoted a fixed price, with scope agreed up front
Silent-failure recovery
A scheduled automation had stopped running without any error, which hid past-due balances on hundreds of loans.
- Traced the root cause to a missing schedule and re-established it
- Recomputed the affected records and verified the corrected totals
- Recommended monitoring so the same failure gets caught early next time
Spreadsheet-style report tables
Standard dashboard tables couldn't show a full month-by-category grid, which is how the finance team thinks.
- Built Lightning Web Components that render complete matrix reports
- Combined several reports into one configurable monthly summary
- Kept the source in version control so it can be maintained later
About North Keel
North Keel Consulting is an independent Salesforce consultancy based in the South Bay of Los Angeles. We work with organizations that need Salesforce to be reliable but don't need, or can't afford, a large consulting firm.
A keel is the part of a boat that keeps it steady and on course, and that's our goal for your Salesforce org. We focus on getting the details right, explaining things plainly and leaving you with work your team can own.
Let's talk about your org
Tell us what's slowing your team down. The first call is free, and you'll come away with a clear next step whether or not we work together.
Email us hello@northkeelconsulting.com