For companies that make, move or sell goods, and need a significant improvement in their analytics — commercial and operational.
We build analytics and operational software to order: commercial and profitability analytics, product cost and production, S&OP planning, budgeting and forecasting, and more. For manufacturers, FMCG and consumer-goods brands, distributors, wholesalers, trading companies and retailers. Specified by people who have run these processes up to board level, built fast with modern AI-assisted methods, and set up and kept running for you.
Tell us your business need and the software you have in mind — we want to hear it.
They know how these businesses run, well beyond finance: sales and pricing, new products, S&OP, purchasing, production and people. They have built the analytical reports, run the monthly business reviews and the S&OP cycle, and owned the budget from first draft to the board. So the screens ask the questions a board asks.
We build quickly because we already know the business processes in depth. We use modern generative-AI development methods, and every change is tested automatically before it reaches your numbers.
Your own copy of the system, set up for you and running on a database of its own, with your definitions of gross sales, deductions and cost of goods agreed in writing and built in. Your data, your definitions and everything built for you are yours, exportable at any time. The engine underneath is ours and licensed to you for as long as you subscribe; if you stop, you keep your database and every export.
We run it wherever you and we agree it should run: in the EU, with a major cloud provider, in your own data centre, or in the region you need. Nothing leaves your system unless you ask for it. Reports by email, alerts or an AI assistant are options you choose in the scope, your data is never used to train models, and your IT team can have the full technical description.
A modern software and analytics company for businesses that make, move and sell goods, built by people who know how those businesses run.
Examples of where a build can start. Every build is shaped around what you need.
Sales, margin and discount figures sit in spreadsheets that never agree, and nobody can say which customers and products really make money. We build the view from gross sales to profit for every customer, brand, product, market and channel, with every discount, rebate and piece of trade spend in its place.
And well beyond it. Pricing and price-pack architecture, promotions judged on margin as well as volume, trade and marketing spend, customer profitability after the cost to serve, and why sales and margin moved against last year.
For everyone who sells goods: manufacturers, brand owners, distributors and retailers.
Your ERP gives you a standard cost set last January and a cost of goods figure nobody can break open. We build the actual cost of every product at every plant each month, split into materials, packaging, labour, energy and overhead all the way up the recipe, and a cost-of-goods bridge that shows why it moved.
Where to make it. The same figures model your factory network. Move a line, close or open a plant, and see the cost, the capacity and the payback. The software can also find the lowest-cost network for you.
For companies that make what they sell, in their own plants or through contract manufacturers. The costing method follows your own practice, and a new product can be costed before it exists.
The monthly meeting is called S&OP, and it is a forecast argument. Nothing is signed, and operations plan off a different number. We build the monthly cycle from a statistical demand forecast through stock, capacity, production and purchasing to a signed plan with its value in euros, carried down to work orders by line, day and shift.
People as well as lines. The working calendar, crews and skills are part of the plan, so it shows where you are short of people, what closing each gap costs, and who to hire and when.
For anyone who plans supply against demand: manufacturers, distributors and retailers. Every sign-off and every change to the plan is kept with its reason.
We have built software for every part of the business. Some clients want one report, others a whole planning cycle, and more can always be added. If it's business analytics or process automation, we build it.
Gross to net by customer, customer and product profitability, pricing, promotions, trade and marketing spend, and why sales and margin moved
Actual product cost every month, why cost of goods moved, factory performance, where each product is cheapest to make, and new products costed before they exist
A monthly cycle from the demand forecast to a signed plan: stock, purchasing, a production plan down to the work order, and the people to run it
A budget built from the operating plan, a rolling forecast that says where the year will land, group reporting, and board reporting, for example a monthly pack in PowerPoint or PDF
A health check for every brand, initiatives sized in gross profit, new products from idea to launch, and a strategy that flows into the budget
Data from your exports or a direct connection to your systems, Excel files that keep their formulas, reports on a schedule, and named accounts with a record of every change
Seasoned business people who know these processes and the reports that run on them, from sales and planning to the factory floor and the board. They build with modern generative-AI software development.
We want your people to see how the important figures are calculated. Key tables and cost calculations export to Excel with their formulas intact, so your team can follow every step and work with the numbers themselves.
Every build starts with a paid pilot on your own data. Discovery is short, because we arrive knowing the business.
One question answered on your own figures, with a working set of screens. It is also our first look at your data, and the build is scoped on what we find.
What gross sales, deductions, cost of goods and a customer mean in your company, agreed and written down before a screen is built.
The system on your own numbers from the first screen, with the totals checked against the figures you already report.
You check it against your own customers, products and cost centres. Where a figure doesn't look right, we find out why and fix it.
We set the system up and hand it over running, with an account for each of your people.
Hosting, updates, support and a change allowance keep the system current, and new builds can be added whenever you need them.
How long a build takes is set in its scope, agreed in writing before it starts.
How an engagement runs →The pilot is a fixed €9,500, excluding VAT, and credited in full against the build if one follows; the build then has its own fixed fee, and an annual subscription keeps it running.
Tell us your business need and the software you have in mind — we want to hear it.
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