Business Intelligence Companies & Consultants in Rockville, MD

Boost Labs is a Rockville, Maryland firm that positions itself as a partner for product development and AI adoption, with roots in turning complex datasets into usable visual tools. Founded in 2009, it works with commercial companies, federal agencies and nonprofit organizations, and reports having shipped more than 100 products for clients across over 20 industries. Buyers comparing Business Intelligence vendors will find that its BI work sits inside a broader offering that also covers strategy, design and software engineering.

Business Intelligence and analytics work

The firm's analytics practice designs and develops reporting systems and analytics products intended to replace static spreadsheets and slide decks with interactive, decision-ready views of an organization's information. Boost Labs says it is familiar with the enterprise tools that underpin scalable BI, treating these platforms as a central layer for combining, visualizing and interpreting company data.

It also offers data science capability and places particular weight on data storytelling, framing insights in context so that end users grasp the key points. Report outputs can be delivered in several forms, from interactive dashboards to print-ready quarterly reports, PDF documents and PowerPoint-style presentations.

Services

• Vision Blueprint Workshop for scoping an idea, surfacing risks and producing a plan before development starts
• Digital product strategy applying Agile and Design Thinking methods
• AI strategy and consulting, including automation, integrations and LLM-based solutions
• Data analytics, reporting and BI architecture
• UI/UX design, from sketching sessions and interactive wireframes to mockups, design systems and user testing
• Technology services such as full-stack and API development, AI/ML implementation, BI platform work, cloud and DevOps architecture, geospatial development and QA

Engagements can be structured either as a self-directed team that owns delivery or as staff augmentation alongside a client's own people. The company describes itself as technology-agnostic, selecting tools per problem rather than pushing a fixed stack, and its engineering scope runs from reviewing data architecture and existing systems through build, testing and launch.

Internal dashboards and tools, MVPs and AI features embedded in current workflows are among the deliverables it lists, along with opportunity assessments that help clients decide where to invest.

Background and team

Leadership includes Managing Partner Jeff Cheng, who brings roughly 25 years in technology and experience founding and launching tech businesses; he oversees company direction, client relationships, hiring and quality control. Partner and Chief Creative Officer Kevin Ingalls, a SCAD-educated designer with more than 15 years in identity and interface design, directs the firm's design teams.

Boost Labs' work has appeared in Pearson's The Power of Infographics, the Graphis Design Annual and Top Gear Magazine. Testimonials on its site come from an international commercial real estate firm and a global cruise line.

What distinguishes Boost Labs for BI buyers is the pairing of information design experience with engineering depth. Its stated working principles emphasize plain-language communication, solutions that client teams can maintain, design that serves users rather than decorates, and staying accountable after launch. Organizations that want analytics delivered as a well-designed product, rather than as a standalone report, may find the approach a good fit.