Margin desk: founder review
Send the purchasing issue you cannot quite prove yet.
Vendor price moved. Freight changed. Rebates look wrong. Pack sizes shifted. A category feels off. Send the concern. Fresh Margin Systems will tell you whether it looks like a diagnostic candidate, a data problem, or not enough signal yet.
Founder-reviewed. No upload. No commitment. If it is not a fit, we say so.
Do not paste invoices, price sheets, customer data, credentials, payment information, tax IDs, employee records, or sensitive commercial records into this form. Describe the issue only.
Describe the concern in plain language.
Three to six sentences is plenty. This is for a quick anomaly or context check, not a full diagnostic. The form routes through the standard intake so the founder can review and respond.
What the founder reply looks like.
A short, structured note. Not a sales pitch. Three possible verdicts: diagnostic candidate, data problem, or not enough signal yet. The confidence meter below shows how a verdict is calibrated.
Verdict: diagnostic candidate
The vendor price movement on protein and the freight pattern you describe are common diagnostic candidates. With 60–90 days of invoices, current and prior price sheets, and your last vendor amendment, a four-week review can produce a ranked exception queue, a freight/rebate watchlist, and a vendor conversation card before your next renewal.
If you would like, the next step is a 30-minute fit review. No record exchange until scope is agreed.
Note triage / confidence scoring
Signal specificity
HighVendor and SKU named in the note
4/5
Records likely to support review
MediumInvoices probable; price-sheet history unclear
3/5
Operator urgency
HighRenewal window in 45 days
4/5
Risk of low-signal review
MediumManageable with intake call
2/5
Confidence is operational, not financial. Scores guide review priority, not certainty of recovery.
Other paths
Not the right entry for you?
If you already know you need a structured review, skip the note. If you want to see what an output looks like before sending anything, view the sample report.