Finance
Your forecast is a guess, and another dashboard won't fix it
Board week arrives and a small team disappears to assemble the number: pulling exports, reconciling versions, arguing about which system is right. Days later they come out with a forecast nobody fully trusts.
A new BI tool or one more dashboard rarely changes that. A dashboard is a window, and the inputs behind it are still rebuilt by hand every cycle.
What it costs
- Senior people's days spent rebuilding a number instead of acting on it.
- A forecast that is stale the moment it is assembled.
- No trail showing how the number was built, so every reader discounts it.
What gets built
01
A metric assembled continuously from the source systems.
02
Disagreements between systems settled by a written rule, not a meeting.
03
A trail from every figure back to the records and assumptions behind it.
How the outcome is proven
The number: One board metric, traced to source
The slice rebuilds one board metric from source on a real export and shows its trail. It is judged against the number your team assembled by hand for the same period, with every difference explained.
Ten days
Frame · days 1–2
We map the process and name the one doubt that keeps the project from being funded. You get a written go or no-go, and it can be an honest no.
Prove · days 3–10
A working slice that answers that doubt on real inputs. You leave with the prototype, the number, the full project map and a fixed price for the build.
Start with the decision that’s stuck
Tell us where this shows up in your business. We will tell you whether ten days can answer it.