​Be honest….would SME business owners actually find this useful, or am I overthinking it?

Hey everyone,

I’m a business analytics postgrad in the UK and honestly… the entry-level analytics market right now is rough. Seeing people with 3–4 years of experience applying for “junior” roles made me rethink the whole apply endlessly and wait approach.

I actually posted a similar question earlier but didn’t get much concrete feedback, so I’m trying again with a clearer version.

From what I’ve seen, it’s not that owners don’t care….it’s that numbers feel abstract until they help answer real questions like:

what should I focus on? what’s not worth my time anymore? where might money or effort be leaking?

So I’m thinking of trying something very small and practical:
working with a few small business owners (for free, at least initially) and helping them make clearer day-to-day decisions using whatever data they already have, or even helping them decide what to track if everything’s manual.

Not dashboards.
Not fancy tools.
Just clarity.

Before I spend time building this properly, I wanted honest opinions:

Would this kind of help actually be useful, or just another “nice idea”? What part of running a business feels most like guesswork right now? Is this something you’d ever pay for if it genuinely saved time or money?

Even blunt answers are welcome…..I’m genuinely trying to figure out if this solves a real problem or not.

Thanks for reading.