One Set of Numbers Everyone Trusts

A single source of truth for your business, without replacing all your software.

Business data from several systems brought together into one set of numbers

When Every System Tells a Different Story

In most growing businesses, the numbers live in several places: the accounts, the job or stock system, the CRM, payroll, and a collection of spreadsheets that fill the gaps. Each one is right about its own part, but they don't agree with each other. Sales has one revenue figure, finance has another, and operations keeps its own spreadsheet because it doesn't trust either.

People call the fix a 'single source of truth'. In plain English, it means one set of numbers everyone trusts. It rarely means one big new system. Usually it means agreeing where each piece of information lives, connecting the systems so it flows instead of being retyped, and building reports from those connected systems so they update themselves.

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Signs You Don't Have One Set of Numbers

If several of these sound familiar, decisions are being made on figures nobody fully trusts.

  • Different people quote different figures for the same thing
  • Meetings start by arguing about whose numbers are right
  • Reports are rebuilt by hand from several exports every month
  • Managers keep their own spreadsheets because they don't trust the system
  • Customer, product or job details differ between systems
  • Month-end is spent reconciling systems that should agree
  • Nobody can answer a simple question without a day of digging
  • Key figures depend on one person's spreadsheet

How We Get You to One Set of Numbers

Start with the decisions you need to make, then fix the data behind them.

Agree where each piece of data lives

One home for customers, products, jobs and prices, so every other system takes its copy from there. Often this alone ends most of the arguments.

Connect the systems

Information flows between your accounts, job, stock, CRM and payroll systems automatically, so it's entered once and nobody retypes it. Learn more

Reports that build themselves

Dashboards and management reports drawn from the connected systems, matched to the accounts and refreshed automatically. Learn more

Retire the risky spreadsheets

The spreadsheets that run part of the business moved into proper systems, so the numbers don't depend on one person. Learn more

How It Works

One area at a time, so you see trusted numbers quickly.

1

Start with the questions

Which figures do you need to trust, and who argues about them today?

2

Trace each number to its source

Where it's entered, where it's copied, and where the versions part ways.

3

Agree the source for each piece of data

Each piece of data gets one home and a clear owner.

4

Connect and reconcile

We connect the systems, and differences are flagged automatically instead of turning up at month-end.

5

Report from the connected data

Dashboards and reports everyone uses, updated without anyone rebuilding them.

Common Questions

It means having one trusted version of each important figure (customers, sales, costs, stock, jobs) that everyone in the business uses, instead of several systems and spreadsheets that disagree.

Usually not. Most businesses get there by deciding where each piece of data lives and connecting the systems they already have. Replacing everything is expensive and rarely necessary.

Data silos are information stuck in separate systems or spreadsheets that don't share it. They're the main reason figures disagree and reports have to be rebuilt by hand.

With the figure that causes the most arguments or the most manual work, often revenue, job profitability or stock. Fixing one area properly shows the way for the rest.

It depends on how many systems are involved and how much needs cleaning up. We look first and give you a fixed quote after a free initial chat.

Related: When the problem is between your systems · All your numbers in one dashboard · Stop double data entry · Data migration and clean-up

Which Numbers Does Your Team Argue About?

Tell us which numbers people don't trust and where they come from. We'll tell you honestly what it would take to get to one set of figures.

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