New Fractional analytics, on retainer

Answers in minutes,
not weeks.

A senior analytics team, plugged into your business. We turn the messy data you already have into the operational answers you've been waiting on.

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onlyanalytics.ai · operating channel
CFO
Tuesday, 9:14 AM
Why is gross margin down 180 bps in the Northeast region this quarter?
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onlyanalytics · 11 minutes later
Answer: three SKUs in the industrial line moved to the higher-cost supplier in May. They're 62% of the regional drop. The other 38% is freight on small orders to two new customers. Pulling a SKU-level breakdown into your dashboard now.
4 systems queried ↳ ERP · CRM · Warehouse · Freight
/ 01 — The problem

Your data isn't broken.
Your access to it is.

Every operating team we meet is sitting on years of data across an ERP, a CRM, a warehouse system, and a stack of spreadsheets. The numbers are there. Getting an answer out of them is the problem.

01 / Latency

Reports take weeks

Every question routes through one analyst, one consultant, or one heroic spreadsheet. By the time the answer arrives, the question has changed.

02 / Conflict

Systems don't agree

Sales says one number. Finance says another. Operations has a third. Nobody's wrong; everyone's working from a different cut.

03 / Adoption

Tools sit unused

You bought the BI platform. The dashboards exist. Nobody opens them because they don't answer the questions people actually ask.

04 / Instinct

Decisions go on gut

Pricing, inventory, headcount, customer health — the calls that move the business get made on instinct because the data takes too long to land.

/ 02 — What you get

A fractional analytics team.
On monthly retainer.

No long implementation. No six-figure consulting engagement. A senior team that owns your analytics layer end-to-end and ships answers continuously.

Monthly retainer

One team.
One number.
Every month.

Predictable monthly pricing. Senior people on every engagement. Cancel any time after the first 60 days. No statements of work for every new question.

  • A unified data layer across the systems you already run
  • Dashboards built around how your team actually works
  • Ad-hoc questions answered in hours, not weeks
  • A standing Slack channel with senior analysts
  • Monthly business reviews that surface what changed
/ 03 — Questions we answer well

The questions worth asking.

Most of what we build is shaped by the questions our clients can't get answered today. A few that come up over and over.

Inventory
Which SKUs are quietly tying up the most working capital?
Margin
What's our true price-volume-mix story this quarter, by customer and product?
Cash
Where is our working capital actually sitting — and how soon can we free it?
Forecast
If demand keeps tracking like the last 90 days, when do we run short — and on what?
AR / AP
Which customers have quietly slipped from net-30 to net-50 — and what does it cost us?
Procurement
Are we paying the same price across vendors for the same parts — or are we leaking?
Sales
Which customers look healthy on revenue but are actually shrinking on margin?
Operations
Where are we losing hours between the ERP, the floor, and the warehouse?
/ 04 — How we work

Three weeks to first answers.

Week 01
STEP 01

Connect

We plug into your ERP, CRM, and operational systems. Read-only. No rip-and-replace. Your stack stays exactly where it is.

Week 02
STEP 02

Unify

We build a single data layer where every system's version of "a customer" or "a part" finally agrees. The work most teams skip.

Week 03 →
STEP 03

Answer

We ship the dashboards and answers your team actually asks for, then keep shipping. New question Monday, working answer Wednesday.

The questions that used to take a week now take an afternoon. The questions we never bothered to ask are the ones changing how we run the business.

— What good looks like, six months in
~3 wks
From first call to a working unified data layer
1 day
Median turnaround on net-new operational questions
0
Tools you have to rip out, replace, or relearn
/ 05 — Fit check

We're not for everyone.
That's the point.

The companies that get the most from us share a few traits. The ones that don't, we'll tell you on the first call.

→ A fit if
  • You run on real systems — an ERP, a CRM, a warehouse — and the data is there
  • Operational decisions get made weekly and the cost of slow answers is real
  • You don't want to hire and manage an internal data team yet
  • You'd rather pay a predictable monthly number than a six-figure project fee
← Not a fit if
  • You need a one-off dashboard built and then nothing after
  • You want someone to rip out and replace your existing systems
  • You're pre-systems — running the business out of a single spreadsheet
  • You want a logo on a slide, not someone in your operating cadence

Stop waiting on the report.

30-minute call. We'll look at your stack, tell you what's possible, and tell you honestly if we're the right team for it.

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