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Had an exchange with an inventory planning leader this week that clarified something important.
The stockout and the trapped capital aren't two different problems.
They're the same decision failing in two directions.
A PO placed without enough demand signal creates both outcomes simultaneously. The fast movers run out because the commitment was too conservative. The slow movers pile up because the commitment was too aggressive.
Same decision. Same moment. Two expensive consequences that show up weeks apart and get treated as separate problems by separate teams.
Availability risk shows up as a stockout....the ops team reacts.
Trapped capital shows up as a cash flow problem...finance reacts.
Nobody traces both back to the original commitment made six weeks ago without enough planning weight in the room.
The brands that get this right don't manage inventory better. They make better decisions before the inventory exists.
If your last PO created both problems simultaneously, that's exactly what my inventory diagnostic uncovers.
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Lens — never sign what you can't read.
My submission for the Figma Config Makeathon.
You sign leases you didn't fully read. Pay bills you couldn't really check. Open lab results and can't tell if the number is bad. It's not you — the documents that decide your money, your home, and your health are built to be unreadable, with the parts that can hurt you buried where you'd never find them.
Lens reads them back to you. Drop in any document and it knows what it's looking at, reads every line, and shows you exactly what matters — and what to do about it.
Bills — "Am I being overcharged?" On a $169.77 power bill, it cleared the 8 fair charges (and explained them) and flagged 4 that weren't — a late fee on a payment that arrived early, a paper charge after you'd gone paperless, a $9.99 plan you never signed up for. $30.98 you shouldn't pay, with how to get it back.
Contracts — "What am I agreeing to?" On a lease, it read all 14 clauses and surfaced the 3 working against you — an auto-renewal that locks you in unless you cancel 60 days out, and an entry clause that breaks state law — each with the exact move to make.
Lab results — "Should I worry?" It lays every marker on a calm range, shows the trend over time, and turns a scary-looking number into the precise questions to ask your doctor. It won't diagnose you — it makes you walk in informed instead of afraid.
Why it fits "design matters more than ever": ask any AI to summarize a contract and you get another wall of text. Lens makes the opposite bet — the understanding lives in the interaction: the green/red triage, the document that flags itself, the calm spectrum that turns panic into orientation. Strip the design away and you're holding the same unreadable page.
Everything is processed locally — your documents stay yours.
🔗 Live project: https://clad-speck-44671030.figma.site
🎨 Figma Community: https://www.figma.com/community/file/1649506511157192753
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