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Why not just use your ERP or a BI tool?

You already have the data. Here's why most businesses still can't answer "where are we losing money?" quickly — and what YieldSentinel does differently.

Built for real-world data

"My ERP export is a mess." Good. That’s what this is built for.

Most analytics tools need clean, structured data. YieldSentinel was built specifically for the kind of ERP, POS, and accounting exports that real operators actually produce — inconsistent column names, missing fields, mixed formats, partial data.

The data quality indicator runs before the analysis. It tells you exactly what it found, what it used, and what it couldn’t interpret — so you know what the results are based on.

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Inconsistent column names
"Qty", "quantity", "QTY_PRODUCED", "units_in" → all mapped
✓ Auto-detected and normalised
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Mixed date formats
"2025-03-14", "14/03/2025", "Mar 14 25" → all parsed
✓ Multiple formats handled in the same file
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Missing or empty fields
Some rows have no scrap reason, no supplier, or blank costs
✓ Partial data analysed; gaps flagged clearly
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Mixed currencies or units
CAD and USD in the same file, kg and lbs mixed
✓ Detected and flagged in the data quality report
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Partial period data
Only 6 weeks of data instead of a full quarter
✓ Analysis runs on what you have; annualised clearly

🔒 The data quality indicator runs before every analysis and tells you exactly what columns were used, what was skipped, and what assumptions were made. No black box.

On-device AI Private by design · data never leaves your browser
Loss Detective Agent™

Investigates your data like a $300/hr consultant.
Instantly. Privately. In your browser.

It doesn’t just show you numbers. It tells you why the loss is happening and exactly what to fix first — ranked by annual dollar impact. No consultant, no BI team, no data warehouse required.

✓Identifies your specific loss fingerprint — not a generic report
✓Traces to root cause — shift, line, supplier, or material
✓Ranks recovery actions by annual dollar impact
📷 Live investigation · sample data
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Pattern detected:
High filling loss · Line 2 · afternoon shifts only
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68% correlation with shift change · calibration drift confirmed
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Root cause: Equipment calibration drift post-lunch cycle
💲 Recovery ranked by $ impact
#1 Recalibrate filler heads$93K/yr
#2 Afternoon checklist$41K/yr
#3 Operator training refresh$18K/yr
Profit Recovery Brief™

A board-ready findings memo in 60 seconds

Generated from your uploaded data. Every finding ranked by annual dollar impact. Designed to be handed to an owner, CFO, or board without explanation.

✓ Executive summary — total identified leakage in dollars
✓ Top 3–5 findings ranked by annual impact
✓ Root cause narrative + recommended actions per finding
✓ Role-based action cards — who owns each fix
✓ Downloadable PDF — white-labeled on Advisor plan
White-label for advisors →
Sample output — Acme Mfg Inc
Profit Recovery Brief™
🔴 Yield loss — Line 2$142K/yr
🔴 Dead stock — 23 SKUs$86K
🔴 Procurement PPV — 3 vendors$54K/yr
Total identified recovery$282K/yr
Generated in your browser · data never transmitted
Modules

One platform. Every angle covered.

Each module answers a specific question your ERP, POS, or accounting system cannot. Click any module to see a live demo.

● Core operations
FREE
Yield Loss
Root cause, annual cost, what-if scenarios
STARTER
Inventory
Days cover, stockouts, expiry, reorder
STARTER
Margin by SKU
SKU, customer, channel, benchmark
STARTER
BOM Costing
Cost per unit, tariff exposure, waterfall
● Industry modules
STARTER
Retail Analytics
Sell-through, dead stock, shrinkage, channel margin
STARTER
Restaurant & F&B
Food cost %, waste, menu margin, location variance
STARTER
Fleet & Trucking
Cost/mile, fuel variance, route margin, driver MPG
● Finance modules
FINANCE
Procurement & PPV
PPV, maverick, landed cost, tariff impact
FINANCE · NEW
Supply Chain Stress Test
12 disruption scenarios ranked by dollar impact
FINANCE
Intercompany
Multi-entity reconciliation, elimination schedule
FINANCE · EXCLUSIVE
☰ Command Centre
All modules, one ranked view
Why not ERP reports or BI?

You already have the data. The question is why you can’t act on it.

Most businesses with physical goods already have an ERP and access to reporting tools. Here’s why they still can’t answer “where are we losing money?” in under an hour.

ERP Reports
Lots of data. No prioritisation.
◯ Tells you what happened — not what it cost you or what to do first
◯ Standard reports require a trained user and 30–90 minutes to assemble
◯ Custom reports need IT involvement and weeks of development time
◯ Output is rows and columns — no dollar-impact ranking, no root cause narrative
◯ Ends up exported to Excel where the real analysis happens anyway
BI Tools (Power BI, Tableau, etc.)
Powerful. But built for data teams, not operators.
◯ Requires a data warehouse, data model, and ongoing maintenance to keep current
◯ Average SMB implementation: 3–6 months and $30,000–$80,000
◯ You get a dashboard — still need someone to interpret what it means
◯ Needs a dedicated analyst or consultant to build and maintain the reports
◯ Still doesn’t tell you which finding to fix first or what it’s worth annually
This is YieldSentinel
YieldSentinel
Upload one export. Get ranked dollar-impact findings in 60 seconds.
✓ No integration, no data warehouse, no IT project. Just a CSV export you already have.
✓ Analysis runs in your browser in under 60 seconds — results ranked by annual dollar impact
✓ Tells you the probable cause and exactly what to fix first — not just the number
✓ No uploaded business data is stored on our servers — analysis runs locally in your browser
✓ Starts free. No credit card. The first result pays for itself.
YieldSentinel is not a replacement for your ERP or BI tool. It’s the weekly profit recovery layer that tells you where the money is leaking — so you act on findings instead of deferring them.
The structural difference no competitor can match

Every cloud analytics tool requires your data to
leave your device and live on their servers.

This isn’t a privacy policy claim. It’s architecture. YieldSentinel is the only operational analytics tool that is structurally incapable of storing your business data — because it never receives it.

Every other analytics tool
Power BI · Tableau · NetSuite Analytics · Infor · Tellius · Sisense
✕ Your operational data uploads to their servers — where it lives indefinitely
✕ Their engineering team, support staff, and cloud provider can technically access your data
✕ A data breach, subpoena, or acquisition exposes your production data, supplier relationships, and margin structure
✕ Privacy policy says they won’t misuse your data — but they structurally could
YieldSentinel
Structurally different
Analysis runs in your browser · data never transmitted
✓ Your CSV is read locally in your browser — it never leaves your device
✓ YieldSentinel’s servers never receive your data — not even encrypted. We can’t breach what we don’t have.
✓ No subpoena, acquisition, or breach can expose data that never touched our infrastructure
✓ This isn’t a policy. It’s physics — the data path doesn’t exist.

The largest cloud analytics vendors could add a privacy policy tomorrow.
They cannot change their architecture without rebuilding from scratch.

See the full data flow →
🔒 Private AI

AI insights without
surrendering your data

Every cloud analytics tool with AI sends your data to their servers to power the model. YieldSentinel works differently: bring your own Anthropic API key, and only structured finding summaries — never your raw CSV — are sent to Claude.

You own your Anthropic account. You control when AI is called. Your operational data never leaves your browser — not even for AI insights.

See the full data flow →
✨ Natural language Q&A on your findings
Ask Claude about your results in plain English. Context stays structured — never raw data.
📝 Role-aware brief narrative
Claude rewrites your executive summary in the right voice — Owner, CFO, Ops, or Advisor.
📈 8-week trend interpretation
Send 8 run summaries to Claude and get a plain-English trend narrative: what improved, what persists, what it means.
📅 Monday morning briefing
3 bullets, 90 seconds. Claude reads your findings and writes the brief for your ops review — ready to paste into Slack.
Bring your own Anthropic key
Add your key in Settings. Only structured summaries are sent. You control every call. Disable anytime by removing the key. No YieldSentinel server ever touches your Anthropic traffic.
● Diagnostic tools
NEW EDI Leakage Diagnostic
Find where EDI is costing you money
Chargebacks, ASN errors, invoice disputes — uploaded as CSV, ranked by dollar impact
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Built for three high-value users

The right tool — for the person who needs to act on the numbers

Whether you’re managing clients, running a business, or preparing a deal — YieldSentinel gives you a board-ready diagnostic in 60 seconds.

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Fractional CFOs & ERP Consultants
Find leakage before the next client review
Generate a white-labeled Profit Recovery Brief from any client’s ERP export. Multi-client workspace. $699/month flat.
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M&A Advisors & Business Brokers
Operational due diligence in 60 seconds, not two weeks
Upload a target’s ERP export. Get yield loss, inventory health, margin quality, and procurement risk — ranked by dollar impact. No consultant required to interpret.
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Operators & CFOs
Rank the losses worth fixing first
Upload your ERP or POS export. See yield loss, dead stock, margin leakage, and procurement variance — ranked by annual dollar impact. Free to start.
Module spotlight

EDI Leakage Diagnostic

Find where EDI chargebacks, ASN errors, invoice mismatches, and trading partner compliance gaps are quietly draining margin — from CSV exports, no integration required to start.

✓Upload chargeback reports, ASN logs, invoice exports, or EDI error files
✓Chargebacks ranked by annual dollar impact with root cause classification
✓Preventable vs. disputable deduction split — know what to dispute vs. fix
✓Trading partner compliance gaps surfaced from implementation guides
Sample findings — Acme Foods Inc.
Annualized leakage
$184,200
Preventable
62%
Top driver
ASN timing
Highest-risk partner
Retailer A
1
ASN timing errors — ship-date logic
$76,400/yr
2
Invoice quantity mismatch — UOM
$58,900/yr
3
Fastest fix — standardize ship-date
Quick win
CSV-first · No EDI integration required · Works with any ERP export
Fit

Who YieldSentinel is built for

✓ Best fit
By business type
  • › Manufacturers and distributors doing $5M–$100M in revenue
  • › Retailers and wholesalers with inventory, margin, and shrinkage challenges
  • › Restaurant groups and franchise operators tracking food cost and location variance
  • › Trucking and fleet operators needing cost-per-mile and route profitability
  • › ERP consultants, fractional CFOs, and operations advisors
By situation
  • › You export to Excel or CSV regularly but rarely analyse the data
  • › You lack a BI team, data warehouse, or analytics resources
  • › You want to diagnose losses before committing to an ERP, BI, or process project
  • › You need fast dollar-impact insights from the data you already have
– Not ideal for
  • › Companies with a mature BI team and a clean, integrated data warehouse
  • › Businesses that already have custom dashboards covering yield, inventory, and margin
  • › Enterprises requiring real-time ERP integration or live database connections
  • › Pure service businesses with no physical goods, inventory, or fleet operations
Questions

Frequently asked

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