Alex Coverdale
Founder, Smart Business HQ
Alex Coverdale is the founder of Smart Business HQ, a service of The Coverdale Group.
Alex builds boards for small businesses: one screen for the business's numbers and work, automations that take on the repetitive jobs, and an approval step where anything that goes out waits for the owner's yes unless they switch that tool to send by itself. Smart Business HQ builds each board, hosts it and keeps it running.
Pieces
- Small Business Dashboard Software, Compared (2026)Nine dashboard tools for a small business, checked against their own pages on 8 October 2026: who each suits, what it does not do, and what it costs.
- Claude Dashboards vs Smart Business HQ: which fits a small business?A fair side by side of Anthropic's Claude Dashboards beta and Smart Business HQ: what each does well, where each stops, and how to use both together.
- Databox alternatives for a small business (2026)Six Databox alternatives for a small business, checked on 8 October 2026: what each does better, what each lacks, and what Databox costs today.
- Looker Studio alternatives for a small business (2026)Looker Studio is now called Data Studio on Google's pages. Six alternatives for a small business, checked on 8 October 2026, with prices and limits.
- Power BI alternatives for a small business (2026)Six Power BI alternatives for a small business, checked on 8 October 2026: what Power BI does well, why owners look elsewhere, and what each option costs.