A small, deliberate firm for small businesses whose data runs everything.
Small businesses lean on their data more than anyone, and have the least time to fix it. That gap is the whole reason Cache Consulting exists. A ten-person shop running its whole operation out of a spreadsheet. A single-location business whose owner still keys in every order by hand. An office manager holding a clinic together with a system nobody left on staff actually understands.
Based in Chicago, our practice is built around businesses that size. We stay small on purpose, which means you work directly with the people doing the work, never an account manager forwarding tickets, and the solutions we build are sized to match: a cleaner spreadsheet, a single well-built form, a small database, not a sprawling platform you’ll never fully use.
We start from what you’re already paying for and comfortable with, then make it work harder for you. When something new is genuinely needed, we reach for tools that are affordable and easy to live with, like Airtable, Google Sheets, Zoho, or FileMaker. We don’t recommend a tool unless we’d build with it ourselves, and we don’t take on more than we can cleanly finish.
Most of our work comes from referrals or returning clients. We treat that as the only metric that actually matters.
Six things we believe, after years of this work.
It has to work in five years, not five weeks.
Anyone can make something look nice on day one. We build things that keep working long after the excitement wears off, and long after we’re gone.
No jargon for jargon’s sake.
If you can’t follow what we’re proposing in two sentences, we haven’t explained it well enough yet.
Clear scope, no surprises.
We agree on exactly what we’ll do before we start, and we stick to it. You won’t get a surprise halfway through.
The right tool, not our favorite tool.
We’re not tied to any one platform. We’ve told plenty of clients that what they’re already using is fine.
You should always be able to run it yourself.
If the next person can’t pick up what we built and keep it going, we didn’t finish the job. Every project ends with a clear handoff and training.
You should need us less, not more.
The best projects end with a quiet email six months later: “Everything still works. We haven’t had to call.”
Why work directly with the people doing the work.
Cache Consulting stays intentionally small. That’s not a limitation, it’s the whole point.
The same hands the whole way through.
The people who scope your project are the ones who build it, and the ones who answer when you write in six months later.
No middle layer you don’t need.
No account manager, no project coordinator, no agency overhead in the middle. You deal directly with the people doing the actual work.
Small enough to actually care.
A limited number of projects at a time, on purpose, so every one of them gets real attention.
Founder-led, and close to every project we take on.
A database developer who has spent years hands-on with the systems small businesses actually run on: FileMaker databases, legacy migrations, CRM cleanup and buildouts, API integrations, and the automation that ties them together. The work has spanned fintech, cybersecurity, legal, real estate, health & wellness, and public-policy research, which is a long way of saying most messes look familiar by now.
Cache Consulting grew out of years of independent database work, and out of one plain observation: the businesses that lean on their data the most tend to have the least time to fix it. We keep the team small and the work senior, so you’re never handed off to a stranger or a support queue, and the people who scope your project are the ones who build it.
Ceasar Attar
We’d rather do a few things well than a lot of things halfway.
Only a handful of engagements run at once. It means the work gets real attention, and you get answers from someone who actually remembers how your setup is put together.
If your data feels like a chore, that’s a solvable problem.
Ceasar Attar, Cache Consulting
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