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20 capabilities
Analysis plan
Before anyone opens the spreadsheet, the owner or manager gets a one-page plan: the question restated, the hypotheses, the fields and periods needed, and the result that would change the decision. It runs no analysis and states no finding. You own the question and the criteria.
Bid or no-bid and RFP response plan
Before anyone starts on a response, your bid manager sees every requirement in the request checked against your own evidence, your bid criteria tested and the buyer questions ready. A named person decides whether to bid; then a dated plan says who does what by when.
Budget-versus-actual variance commentary
Before the month's results go to management, the finance lead gets written commentary on every line that moved past the threshold: the figures, the budget owner's explanation marked confirmed or to be confirmed, a bridge from budget to actual, and the questions still open. No cause is invented.
Business insurance renewal review
Before the business insurance renews, the owner gets one pack: every policy with insurer, limits, deductibles, premium and dates; renewal terms beside expiring ones, every change marked; what changed in the business; claims; and questions for the broker. The broker and the owner decide all cover.
Carrier performance review
The shipping lead gets a lane-by-lane comparison of carriers from the delivery export and the freight charges: on-time delivery, damage, tracking gaps and cost, each with the shipments behind it. A person decides whether to raise issues or change carrier.
Category sourcing plan
For the buyer or operations lead who owns one spend category, such as packaging or IT hardware: its spend and suppliers on one page, where it sits on a supply-risk and spend matrix, the value levers the evidence supports, and a dated sourcing plan. A person chooses the approach.
Contractor safety prequalification
For a named job, the operations, facilities or site manager gets a safety questionnaire scaled to the risk of the work, then a record of the contractor's answers scored only on the evidence supplied, with every gap, the conditions that close it and a review date. A competent person decides.
Dashboard brief
Before anyone builds the dashboard, the requester gets one brief that settles the work: the decisions it serves, what is shown, each metric's definition, the filters, notes on every source and who refreshes it. The requester approves what is shown and the definitions.
Dataset profile
Before anyone joins or relies on a new export, the analyst gets one profile of it: what one row stands for, where keys repeat, what is missing, which values look odd, and a numbered list of questions for the data owner. No data is changed and no verdict is given.
Hiring pipeline status report
Each week your people lead or founder sees every open role on one page: applications at each stage, days open against the target, roles running late, pass-through between stages, which sources lead to interviews, and every blocker with its owner. It counts; it never assesses a candidate.
Metric definition reconciliation
When two reports give different numbers for one metric, the owner gets a page: the definitions side by side, the gap bridged step by step from supplied records, each cause marked shown or not, and a proposed common measure. The owner chooses.
Operations KPI scorecard
Once a month the operations manager gets one red-amber-green page for the ten or fewer measures that run the operation: each value worked out from your own exports, its trend, what moved and why in the owner's words, and the action agreed for every red. You set the measures and decide the actions.
Sales pipeline review
Each week your sales lead sees the whole open pipeline on one page: value and age by stage, what moved since last week, the deals at risk and coverage against your target. Every figure traces to your export, and the forecast number is left for a person to commit.
Software subscription and vendor spend review
From a card statement or ledger export, the finance or operations lead gets every subscription on one register: what each costs a year, who owns it, what renews in the next 90 days, what looks unused, duplicated or orphaned, and the decisions to make. Nothing is cancelled or changed.
Supplier delivery date check
The purchasing or operations person gets one comparison from the open purchase orders and the supplier replies: promised and revised dates side by side, the orders each change puts at risk, and the follow-ups still unanswered. No supplier is contacted.
Tracking event plan
Before analytics goes onto a website or app, the founder or product owner gets one plan: the events and properties worth collecting, when each fires, where it goes, what it is called and who owns it, each tied to a question the business needs answered. The owner approves what is collected.
Vendor quote comparison
Before anyone signs, the person choosing a vendor gets one sheet: the criteria agreed first, every quote costed the same way, and each vendor eliminated with its reason, on hold with the question that settles it, or shortlisted with its trade-offs. A person chooses; contract terms go to your reviewer.
Vendor renewal review
Before a supplier's notice date, the operations lead takes one page to the decision: the dates counted from the ones you supply, how much of what you pay for is used, what it has cost and what renewal would cost, how the supplier has performed, and the questions to ask. Nothing is sent or cancelled.
Website findability audit
An owner or marketer asking why the website is not found gets a plain report from saved copies of their own pages: what stops each page being reached, read or understood, the fixes in order, and the checks only a live look can settle. No ranking is promised.
Win-loss review
Once a quarter your sales lead sees, from the deals you closed, where the losses ended, which kinds of deal you win and lose, what the largest deals show, and which findings rest on enough deals to act on. Actions are proposed in proportion to the evidence, and nothing in your sales system is changed.