The People Behind Portal Future Tech
We're a small team based in Yilan County who happens to care deeply about helping businesses make sense of their numbers. Most of us came from consulting backgrounds where we saw too many companies drowning in data without clear direction. That's what drives us.
How We Got Here
Started With a Conversation
Emmerich Vögler had been consulting for manufacturing firms around Taiwan for years. After yet another client struggled to interpret quarterly reports, he called up Tjalling Bruinsma over coffee. They both felt the same frustration – good businesses were making poor decisions because financial data was presented badly.
First Real Client
A local supply chain company agreed to let us redesign their monthly reporting system. It took three months of back and forth, lots of late nights, and several arguments about chart types. But when the owner said their board meetings became 40% shorter because everyone actually understood the reports? That felt good.
Found Our Method
We stopped trying to be everything to everyone. Instead, we focused on business activity analysis – helping companies understand what's actually happening in their operations through financial patterns. It meant turning down some work, but the projects we took on started producing better results.
Built Out the Team
Added specialists who brought different perspectives. Brought on people who'd worked in banking, retail operations, and manufacturing accounting. The diversity helped us spot patterns we'd been missing when it was just the two of us.
Refining Our Approach
We're working with about twenty companies now across different sectors. Each project teaches us something new about how businesses actually use financial information. Our focus remains on making complex data accessible to the people who need to make decisions with it.
Who Does What
Emmerich Vögler
Senior Financial Analyst
Spent twelve years in corporate finance before getting tired of boardroom politics. Enjoys finding the story hidden in balance sheets and helping business owners understand their cash flow patterns. Has an annoying habit of asking "but what does this number actually mean?" in every meeting.
What Matters to Us
Clarity Over Complexity
Financial reports don't need to be intimidating. If a metric isn't helping someone make a better decision, we question whether it belongs in the report at all. Simple beats comprehensive almost every time.
Context Changes Everything
A number without context is just noise. We spend time understanding how each business actually operates before suggesting any analytical frameworks. What works for a distributor won't work for a service company.
Honest About Limitations
Data analysis has real limits. Sometimes the answer is "we need more information" or "this metric won't tell you what you're hoping it will." We'd rather say that upfront than pretend we have all the answers.
Long-Term Relationships
Our best work happens with clients we've worked with for years. It takes time to understand a business well enough to provide genuinely useful analysis. Quick fixes rarely solve underlying problems.
How We Actually Work
Most projects start with us spending time just watching how your team currently uses financial information. Who looks at what reports? What questions come up in planning meetings? Where do decisions get stuck because the data isn't clear?
Then we build analysis frameworks that fit your actual workflow. Not some textbook approach, but something that works for how your specific business operates. This usually means several iterations as we figure out what's genuinely helpful versus what just looks impressive.
We stay involved after implementation because that's when the real learning happens. When someone on your team spots a trend in the new reports that changes a decision – that's what we're aiming for.
The goal isn't fancy dashboards or complex models. It's helping your team understand business activity well enough to make confident decisions. Sometimes that requires sophisticated analysis, but often it just requires presenting information in a way that actually makes sense.