Alex Readman
AI-assisted Python scripts for one-off spreadsheet data jobs
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I built this because "we have too much stock and we keep running out" is
one complaint containing two different problems, with two different
remedies, and paying for the wrong one is what happens when nobody checks.
So it checks. On this year of movements the fill rate across...
I built this because revenue growth is the number that gets reported and
the one number that cannot tell you whether a business is getting stronger.
A company that loses a third of its customers and replaces them looks
identical, on a sales report, to one that keeps all of them....
I built this to show what happens when you actually check where the cash
is going, rather than assuming.
"Profitable on paper, short of cash" is a question every business asks, and
almost everyone answers it the same way — chase the late payers. On this
ledger that turned out to...
I built this to show what a margin analysis actually produces.
"Sales are up and profit isn't" is the most common version of the question,
and the answer is usually counterintuitive — so it's a better demonstration
than something where the finding is obvious. On this order book...
