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what you can't see.

Pick the business that looks most like yours. We take a pile of the ordinary data it already has, run it through Polygon™, and surface the one decision sitting in plain sight.

Both companies below are invented. The data, and the blind spots, are the kind we find in almost every set of books we open.

01 Meet the company
Calcasieu Industrial Supply Fictional $9.4M revenue 4,200 active parts 2 warehouses

A distributor of industrial pumps, valves, fittings, and spare parts to Gulf Coast plants and contractors. Solid business, steady customers, a name people in the region know.

"Process Equipment is the line that carries us. It's the biggest number on the report, so that's where the floor space and the reorder budget go."
What the owner believes
02 What Polygon™ started with

Nothing exotic. The same files sitting on any distributor's shared drive.

Accounting export
Inventory spreadsheet
12 months of sales orders
Vendor price sheets
Freight invoices

Polygon reads all of it at once, ties every freight charge and discount back to the line it belongs to, and builds one clean picture. No data left the company's environment.

03 The reveal

The biggest line is the weakest earner.

By revenue, Process Equipment is the clear leader. Then you account for the freight on heavy gear and the volume discounts sales gives away to win those big orders. The picture inverts.

By product line
What the revenue report shows
After landed freight and discounts, Process Equipment nets about 9 cents on the dollar. Valves and fittings, the quiet line nobody talks about, nets 31.
04 And the cash

Starved on what sells. Buried in what doesn't.

The inventory tells the same story from the other side. Capital is locked in parts that haven't moved in a year, while the fast movers keep running out.

$0
in dead stock, untouched for 12+ months. 18% of all inventory cash.
0
stockouts on fast-moving parts last quarter.
$0
in orders pushed or lost while the right parts were out.
05 What nobody was tracking
+

Margin after landed cost, by line. Revenue was on every report. The freight and discounts that eat it were not.

+

How fast each part actually turns. Reorders ran on gut, not on velocity.

+

A dead-stock review. Nothing flagged the parts quietly sitting for a year.

None of this is hard to track. It just wasn't.

06 The decision it unlocks
  • Re-price or renegotiate freight on the high-volume line so the biggest seller stops being the smallest earner.
  • Clear the dead stock and move that capital back into parts that turn.
  • Set reorder points by velocity so the fast movers stop selling out.
None of it is dramatic. Together it is roughly $340K of trapped cash freed and around half a million in orders a year that stop slipping away. From data they already had.
07 Built to keep watching

And we built it to keep watching.

We didn't stop at the finding. Powered Metrics published a small AI integration straight into Calcasieu's own data landscape. Every new month of sales, inventory, and freight data runs through it automatically.

Now flagged automatically, every month
  • A product line's margin slipping once freight and discounts are counted
  • Parts crossing into dead-stock territory
  • Fast movers trending toward a stockout

The one-time finding becomes a standing early warning. Your team still makes the calls. The integration just makes sure the right things reach the desk in time.

This is our AI Integration practice →

01 Meet the company
Delta Fab & Machine Fictional $6.2M revenue +8% year over year 4 mo. backlog

A fabrication and machine shop serving industrial clients across the region. Good people, good work, a reputation that keeps the bays full.

"Best year we've had. Revenue's up, the backlog's booked out months. Honestly, no reason to worry right now."
What the owner believes
02 What Polygon™ started with

The records every shop already keeps.

QuickBooks export
Customer invoice history
AR aging report
Job log

Polygon lines up revenue, customers, and payment timing into one view, then looks at how each thread moves over time. The trend is where the story was hiding.

03 The reveal

The best year is hiding a slow leak.

Total revenue is climbing, exactly as the owner sees it. But almost all of it leans on two accounts, and the biggest one has been shrinking for three quarters while everything else covered the gap.

Revenue by customer, this year
Two accounts are most of the business
Customers A + B = 58%
Two customers are 58% of revenue. One is 34% by itself. Healthy years can hide how few hands the business actually rests in.
Total revenue vs. the anchor customer
Over the last five quarters
Total revenue, risingLargest customer, sliding
The anchor account fell from 41% to 34% of the business over the year. Because total revenue kept rising, nothing ever felt wrong.
04 And the cash

The biggest risk is also the slowest to pay.

The same anchor customer has been stretching its terms. The exposure and the cash squeeze are sitting in one account.

0%
of all revenue rides on a single customer.
0 days
to pay, stretched from 38 a year ago.
0 qtrs
of steady decline from that account, unnoticed.
05 What nobody was tracking
+

Customer concentration. How much of the business rests on the top one or two accounts.

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Revenue trend per customer. Not just the total, but which way each account is moving.

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Days to pay, by customer. Where the cash is slow and the risk is stacking up.

Standard things to watch. None of them were on a report.

06 The decision it unlocks
  • Start filling the pipeline now, while the shop is strong and has leverage, not after the decline shows up in the bank balance.
  • Have the direct conversation with the anchor customer, early enough to change the trajectory.
  • Tighten terms on the slow-paying account.
The difference between seeing this now and seeing it in two quarters is the difference between a plan and a scramble.
07 Built to keep watching

Next time, it surfaces in the first quarter.

We didn't stop at the finding here either. Powered Metrics published an AI integration into Delta's data landscape that runs on every new batch of invoices and jobs, on its own.

Now flagged automatically, every batch
  • Any single account climbing toward dangerous concentration
  • A major customer's revenue starting to slide
  • Days-to-pay stretching on a key account

The blind spot that took three quarters to surface would now surface in the first. The owner still decides what to do. The integration makes sure he sees it coming.

Both companies are invented. The blind spots are not. We find versions of these in almost every set of books we open, because the answer is usually already in the data, just not in a form anyone can act on. That is the whole job.

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