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Analytics systems · Precision for executives

You get the analytics function.
You don't have to build it.

Growth adds operational complexity. When information is scattered, working out what changed and where to act takes too long. Unova unifies and structures your data so you can explain results and make decisions on analysis you can trust, powered by AI.

Arrange a conversationSee how it worksIn 6 weeks, go from scattered data to answers in seconds.
Autonomy
Executives explore the business themselves and get clarity in seconds, without waiting on an analyst.
0 hires
No analyst to recruit, no data engineer to keep busy in year two.
100%
Data ownership, without giving up control or compromising the security of your data.
The analyst, in conversation

Trustworthy answers in seconds

Ask complex questions in plain language, and drill down to the root cause.

UNOVA ANALYTICSLive
YOU · 09:14 AM

How's gross margin trending in August vs. July, and what's driving it?

Y
U
UNOVA · 09:14 AM

Gross margin fell -1.2 pts (31.4% Aug vs 32.6% Jul).

  • •Bajío: -3.1 pts (–0.9 pts of the total impact)
  • •North: -0.8 pts · Central: -0.3 pts · Southeast: +0.2 pts
  • •Average discount in Bajío rose from 6.4% → 8.1%
Margin trend by region · last 6 months
Bajío (sharp drop in Aug)
North / Central / Southeast (stable)
Want to break Bajío down by customer?
YOU · 09:15 AM

Yes — break Bajío down by customer and show the 3 biggest outliers.

Y
U
UNOVA · 09:15 AM

85% of the Bajío decline is concentrated in 3 accounts:

  1. 1Customer A — 18% margin (-5.2 pts) from an unauthorised 12% discount
  2. 2Customer B — 22% margin (-3.1 pts) from a shift in product mix
  3. 3Customer C — 25% margin (-2.0 pts) from higher local freight costs
Traceability & business rules
↳ Explains the answers on the left
Sources consulted
  • •Operational ERP: invoicing and sales volume.
  • •Accounting / COGS: direct product costs and local freight.
Semantic layer applied
Gross margin formula
(Net revenue − COGS) / Net revenue
Inclusion criteria
Excludes intercompany sales and pending credit notes.
New source integrated
  • •CRM / POS: discounts logged by reps and active promotions in the Bajío region.
Business rule activated
Commercial policy
Valid discount ≤ 5% without director approval (Definition agreed Mar 12)
Exception detected
Automatic flag for policy breach on Customer A (12% applied).
Ownership & governance

If you stop working with us, you lose us — not your data

Everything is built in your cloud account, under your billing, with your IT holding the keys. The code that transforms your data sits in a repository you own. There is no Unova platform to be locked into, because there is no Unova platform.

Cloud account & billingYours
Raw and modelled dataYours
Transformation code & repositoryYours
Definitions documentYours
Who can see whatSet by your IT
Building and operating itUnova

Named sub-processors, access logs and a 30-day offboarding are written into the engagement letter, not promised on a call.

What it looks like when it works

Client names withheld at their request. Figures taken from their own reporting.
Exhibit 1 · Month-end close falls from 21 days to 6
Q1 · 21
Q2 · 16
Q3 · 10
Q4 · 6

Distribution group, 240 staff. Four ERP instances after two acquisitions; finance was rebuilding the same margin figure by hand each month.

We closed the month in six days, with numbers finance signed off first time.

CFO · distribution group, 240 staff
Field services business, 180 staff
Utilisation was reported three different ways by three managers. One definition, agreed in week four, now drives scheduling and the bonus scheme.
Specialist manufacturer, 410 staff
Had hired two analysts and lost both inside a year. We took over the reporting they left behind and the CFO stopped recruiting for the role.
Multi-site healthcare provider, 320 staff
Their IT director ran the security review and kept admin on every account. Nine months in, no Unova credential has ever touched patient-identifying data.
WHAT IT COSTS
Less than one mid-level analyst, all in.

A fixed monthly fee covering the team, the operation and the change work — set at the start from your systems and your reporting load. Cloud costs are billed to your account directly, typically a few hundred a month at this size. No implementation fee, no per-seat licence, no charge for asking a question.

Straight answers

The questions we get asked on the first call

Usually by the person in the room who has been sold to before. Fair enough.

The tool stays. What changes is underneath it. Most of the time the reports are fine and the disagreement is about what the numbers mean — four definitions of revenue, a customer that means something different in the CRM than in finance. We settle that once, write it into the data itself, and then keep it correct as the business moves. Your report-builder stops rebuilding the same figures and starts answering questions.

Start with a conversation, not a proposal

Forty-five minutes with the person who would run your engagement. You describe how the month currently closes; we tell you whether this is worth doing and what it would take. If it isn't, we'll say that too.

Arrange a conversationSend us a question first
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
  1. 01A 45-minute call. No deck.
  2. 02A two-page note on what we'd build, what it costs, and what we'd need from you.
  3. 03Your IT reviews access before anything is signed.
  4. 04Six weeks later, a reporting layer you can close the month on.