MeasurementAugust 11, 2026· 5 min read
The bucket labeled current is lying to you
On one engagement the past due balance was more than four times what the screen reported. Both figures were defensible. Only one of them was being acted on.
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What we found while building
Measurement defects, architecture decisions, and the occasions when the model made something up. Written during delivery rather than after it.
5 results
MeasurementAugust 8, 2026· 4 min read
Count from the catalog, not from the page
A screen reported seven products selling below cost. The catalog held twenty-six. The bug was not in the calculation, it was in what the count was computed over.
Read moreTrustAugust 12, 2026· 6 min read
Two of five findings were the assistant making things up
A customer reviewed our screens and raised five issues. Three were real defects. Two were inventions by the analyst panel, and one of those cost the team days.
Read moreArchitectureJuly 30, 2026· 5 min read
Why the environment runs in your account and not ours
Hosting your data would be easier for us and worse for you. Here is what changes when the infrastructure sits on your own billing.
Read moreDeliveryJuly 22, 2026· 5 min read
Name the numbers before you build anything
The most valuable week of a data engagement is the one where nothing gets built.
Read moreMeasurementAugust 5, 2026· 6 min read
Revenue computed at the wrong grain
Calculate revenue from invoice headers instead of the underlying postings and you fold in things that are not revenue, then find a third of it will not attribute to anything.
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