Results that endure.

Fix the systems your team has outgrown.

North Lantern Group is a full-cycle operations and implementation consulting firm that designs, improves, and implements Atlassian platforms, business intelligence systems, and workflow automations that reduce manual work, create reporting leaders can trust, and make operations easier to scale.

Senior operators. No pass-downs.
Same team, scope to handover.
Work that sticks after handover.
01 / Belief

Your systems cost more to tolerate than to fix.

The dashboard loads. The workflow runs. The automation fires. And still, someone exports the data to Excel, pings the one person who knows the real process, and sends leadership a number with a caveat.

Most teams have three versions of this running at once.

Atlassian that grew without anyone in charge of it. Projects nobody wants to audit. Permission schemes that haven't been reviewed in two years. Workflows patched by four people, documented by none. Confluence full of pages that stopped being trusted around the time the last admin left.

Reporting leadership can't fully believe. Dashboards that load on time and still come with a caveat. Three sources of truth for the same number. The real number lives in someone's tab order, rebuilt by hand on Thursday mornings.

Manual work between systems that nobody scoped for. CRM to billing, ticket to invoice, Slack to Jira. The work that fills up someone's afternoon because two systems don't talk and nobody has had the budget to make them.

NLG rebuilds the operational layer underneath. Atlassian, reporting, workflows, automations, integrations, and the governance that keeps it from drifting again. We stay until your team can run it without us.

No decks masquerading as delivery. No staff augmentation dressed up as expertise. No juniors shipping what seniors sold.

02 / Practices

Three practices. One delivery standard.

We rebuild Atlassian estates, reporting layers, and the automations between them. Every engagement ships with the named owner who runs it after we leave.

Atlassian Platform

Atlassian that drifted. Jira instances that grew without rules. Confluence spaces nobody searches. JSM queues with inconsistent SLAs. Admin left, runbooks didn't. We rebuild the structure across the Atlassian stack: Jira, Confluence, JSM, and the governance, identity, discovery, and AI layers Atlassian has built on top. Then we hand back a system your team actually understands.

  • RebuildProject, schema, and permission refactor
  • InstallJSM queues, SLAs, escalation rules
  • ExtendGuard, Rovo, JPD, Compass where they fit
  • MigrateData Center to Cloud, or instance consolidation
  • DocumentAdmin runbook for the next owner
CONSTRAINT

Won't do: junior-staffed admin work, migrations we cannot make stick, or "health checks" that turn out to be sales calls.

How we rebuild Atlassian

BI and Analytics

Reports leadership doesn't trust. Dashboards nobody opens. Three sources of truth for the same number. The real metric lives in someone's tab order. Definitions written after the chart. We rebuild the layer underneath the dashboard: semantic model, metric catalog, refresh SLAs, lineage, and row-level access, feeding Power BI, Tableau, or Atlassian Analytics on the Data Lake. Then we hand leadership a number they can quote without a caveat.

  • ModelSemantic layer, entity definitions, metric grain
  • SourceWarehouse pipelines, Delta shares, data quality checks
  • GovernMetric ownership, refresh SLAs, change control
  • PublishExecutive dashboards in Power BI, Tableau, or Atlassian Analytics
  • DocumentMetric catalog and lineage the next analyst can read
CONSTRAINT

Won't do: dashboards without a named owner, metrics defined after the chart, or BI "modernization" that's just a prettier version of the same broken model.

How we rebuild reporting

Automation and Integration

The work hiding between your systems. CRM to billing. Ticket to invoice. Slack to Jira. Afternoon hours burned because two systems don't talk and nobody scoped the integration. Brittle webhooks, a script on someone's laptop, a Zap that silently stopped firing. We build cross-system integrations, operational automations, and AI-assisted internal tooling on n8n, native platforms, or custom code. Every rule ships with a named owner and a rollback path.

  • IntegrateCross-system APIs, webhooks, and event streams
  • AutomateOperational workflows with branching, retries, and human-in-the-loop
  • AugmentAI-assisted internal tooling, MCP servers, approval-gated agents
  • GovernSSO, audit logs, rollback paths, and secret management
  • DocumentRunbook for every workflow with a named owner
CONSTRAINT

Won't do: automation rules without named owners, AI tooling that fires without an audit log, or "agentic" demos that never survive a production week.

How we ship automations
Adoption

Adoption is a delivery principle, not a fourth practice. Every engagement lists the named owner on the client side, the runbook they will inherit, and the operating review they will run without us.

03 / CLIENT TESTIMONIALS

Trusted by teams who need the work to hold.

Full testimonials from leaders who hired North Lantern Group for Atlassian, BI, automation, and governed delivery work their teams rely on every day.

Names and identifying details are anonymized at clients' request. Engagement details available under NDA on request.

Engagements across Atlassian, BI, and automation.

North American managed services provider, Director of IT Operations. The North Lantern Group team rebuilt our Jira Service Management instance from the ground up after we had inherited eight years of accumulated customizations from a previous provider. What I appreciated most was their discipline around scope. They told us upfront which problems they would solve in the engagement and which ones we would need to address ourselves with their guidance. Six months later, our service desk handles roughly forty percent more tickets per quarter with the same team size, and our agents actually want to use the system. That had not been true in years.

Mid-market professional services firm, COO. We hired North Lantern Group to consolidate three Confluence instances into one and did not expect them to engage as deeply with our content strategy as they did. They sat with our department heads and worked through which knowledge actually needed to be preserved, which needed to be rewritten, and which needed to be retired. The migration itself ran smoothly, but the lasting value came from the structure they helped us put in place. Our internal documentation is now something our team genuinely uses. I would recommend North Lantern Group to any organization carrying years of accumulated technical debt.

Multi-tenant managed services provider, VP Technology Operations. North Lantern Group has been our partner on Atlassian governance for the past year. We came to them with a specific problem: our access controls had drifted significantly across multiple client tenants. They delivered a permission architecture that closed the gaps and a runbook our internal admins can maintain without external help. The engagement lead stayed close to the work and was responsive throughout. The work was completed far ahead of schedule and the documentation has held up. We have since expanded the relationship to include our reporting and analytics workstream.

B2B SaaS company, Director of Customer Operations. I have worked with several Atlassian solution providers over the course of my career and North Lantern Group is the one I would recommend most often to peers. Their approach is research first, then propose, which sounds obvious but is genuinely rare. When we engaged them on our service desk redesign, they spent the first two weeks understanding how our team actually worked before they made a single recommendation. The eventual rebuild reflected our operational reality rather than a generic best-practice template. Our resolution times improved three times over and our team's satisfaction with the tool is dramatically higher.

Mid-market operations and services firm, CFO. We engaged North Lantern Group to help us design and build out reporting capabilities across our operations. The team approached the work as a true business intelligence engagement rather than a dashboard delivery. They worked with our finance and operations leads to define our metrics consistently, built the semantic layer that ensures our numbers tell the same story regardless of which dashboard you open, and trained our internal analysts to extend the model themselves. The dashboards are excellent, but the foundation underneath is what makes this engagement stand out.

Lean B2B services firm, President. Our company runs lean, and engaging an outside firm was not a decision we took lightly. North Lantern Group was recommended to us by a peer in our industry and they exceeded our expectations. The engagement was scoped tightly, delivered on schedule, and priced fairly. More importantly, the engagement lead was direct and transparent throughout. When we asked for additions to scope, the team was clear about the tradeoffs and helped us decide rather than just selling us more work. That kind of judgment is what we look for in our consulting partners.

Mid-market services organization, IT Director. North Lantern Group delivered our automation and integration project on time and substantially exceeded our expectations on quality. The communication was excellent throughout, from initial scoping through deployment and handover. They worked very closely with our internal team to ensure the integrations would be maintained internally after the engagement closed. Six months in, the system is running reliably and our internal team is trained on the knowledge to extend it.

Regulated financial-services firm, Head of Operations. We are a regulated business and our last consulting engagement with a different firm had ended badly because governance and documentation gaps surfaced during an audit. We came to North Lantern Group wary. They earned our trust quickly with their direct approach. Their delivery process is documented, their handover materials are thorough, and their work passed our internal compliance review without comment. I want to specifically credit the project lead for the work on this engagement. She was responsive, technically sharp, and her communication with our team was outstanding.

B2B software company, VP Engineering. I recommend North Lantern Group highly. We engaged them on what we thought was a straightforward Jira cleanup and the work expanded into a broader operational improvement initiative as they uncovered structural issues with our workflows. They scoped the additional work transparently, delivered it within our budget, and the cumulative impact has been significant. Our project teams are running faster, our reporting is more accurate, and the friction we had accepted as normal for years is no longer there.

Enterprise software company, Senior Director of Engineering Systems. North Lantern Group is now our primary consulting partner for everything Atlassian. Over the past year they have supported us through three separate engagements: a JSM redesign, a governance audit, and a reporting build. The quality has been consistent across all three. The engagement lead is professional, candid, and the team's work product is exceptional. What sets them apart in my experience is that they care about the long-term health of what they build rather than just the deliverable in front of them. Our internal team has grown more capable through working with them.

Mid-market enterprise services firm, CIO. When we set out to modernize our reporting, we evaluated four firms and selected North Lantern Group based on the quality of their initial proposal. They had clearly read our materials, understood our specific challenges, and proposed a phased approach that matched our internal change capacity rather than overloading us. The engagement delivered everything they committed to and the relationship has been excellent throughout. The engagement lead is a thoughtful operator and the team is one of the strongest I have worked with on Atlassian and BI projects.

North American managed services provider, Director of IT Operations. The North Lantern Group team rebuilt our Jira Service Management instance from the ground up after we had inherited eight years of accumulated customizations from a previous provider. What I appreciated most was their discipline around scope. They told us upfront which problems they would solve in the engagement and which ones we would need to address ourselves with their guidance. Six months later, our service desk handles roughly forty percent more tickets per quarter with the same team size, and our agents actually want to use the system. That had not been true in years.
TESTIMONIAL INDEX
04 / Process

How engagements run.

Three phases. One team across all three. No delivery pod you meet in week two.

01 / Scope

Scope

You get a written plan naming the broken system, the owner after handover, and the weeks it will take. The senior operators who will do the build sit on the scoping call.

02 / Build

Build

You get working systems shipped in-instance, not slideware. The people who scoped it do the configuration, the data modelling, and the automation wiring themselves.

03 / Hand back

Hand back

You get a runbook, a named internal owner, and a review cadence your team runs without us. The same operators stay through the first two review cycles before leaving.

The operators who scope the work are the ones who build and hand it back. No split pitch-and-delivery team.

We work with teams of 5 to 500 that actually want the thing fixed. If you're looking for transformation theatre, 27 discovery workshops, a partner who says 'synergies' like it's a medical condition, and slide decks heavier than your laptop — we're probably not the right fit for you. But we hear Deloitte is accepting meetings. Tell them we said hi. We'll be here when you want it actually built.

Tell us what is broken, or what you are planning.

We reply within one business day, with a short note. Not a 47-slide proposal deck.