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 priced plan for the build, whoever does it.
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.