Engagements
Business analytics and automation, built to your scope
You tell us what the business needs, and we build it around the way your company works. Every engagement starts with a paid pilot on your own data, then a build at a fixed fee, then an annual subscription that keeps it running.
The pilot
You choose one question, and we answer it on your own data with working screens. It ends with a scope and a fixed fee for the build, and going ahead is your decision. See how the pilot runs and what it costs.
Starting points
There are four common starting points; the prices page gives the typical fee for one area or several. Each is shaped to what you need, and the timetable is set in the scope, once the pilot has shown us your data.
Commercial and profitability analytics
Where revenue and margin come from, by customer, brand, product, market and channel, from gross sales down to what is left after every discount, rebate and piece of trade spend. What it covers
Product cost and production analytics
What each product really costs to make, at every plant and in every month, and why that cost moved. The costing follows the method your controllers already use. What it covers
S&OP planning
One monthly cycle from an agreed demand plan to a production, purchasing and stock plan that can be run, down to the work order, with every sign-off on record. What it covers
Budgeting, forecasting and board reporting
A budget built from the operating plan by the people who own each number, and a rolling forecast that shows where the year will land and why it moved. What it covers
Beyond these starting points
We also build for strategy and the long-range plan, new product launches, marketing investment, market data and more. Adding to a system that is already running is normal, and each addition is scoped and priced like a build. What we build has the whole range.
The subscription
From go-live, one annual subscription keeps everything we have built for you running and current, however many builds that is: hosting wherever we agree it should run, updates, support and a small allowance for changes. What it costs is on the prices page.
What you own
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.
There is an agreed run-off period so you can migrate.
- Your data. Nothing leaves your system unless you ask for it, no other client ever sees it, and it is never used to train models. More on How an engagement runs
- A system of your own, with its own database, hosted for you or on your own servers
- The definitions and the screens built for you, in your own words
- Excel exports that keep their formulas, so your teams can see how each figure was calculated and keep working with it
What you might compare this with
Usually one of two things: an enterprise planning or BI platform, with a licence and an implementation partner attached, or a development project built from a requirements document. What we build fills the gap between your ERP and your reporting tools. We have run these processes ourselves, and we fit the software to the way you run them, at a fixed fee.
Start with the pilot.
Tell us what your company makes, moves or sells, what you would like built, and where the data lives. A short description is enough.
Tell us your business need, or ask for a worked example on your figures — we want to hear it.
Or email support@mistlight.eu