CAPABILITY — FISCAL FRICTION ANALYSIS
Every manual step has a price. We measure it.
Fiscal friction is the capital quietly lost in the gaps between your systems — re-keyed data, deferred decisions, conservative buffers, silent write-offs. Our forensic diagnostic surfaces every leakage point as a ranked, dollar-denominated matrix.
SAMPLE DIAGNOSTIC — RANKED GAP MATRIX
Manual re-keying -------------------- $1.4M/yr
Decision latency ---------------------- $0.9M/yr
Silent write-offs ---------------------- $0.5M/yr
Recoverable total ---------------- $2.8M/yr
≤72h
From audit kickoff to delivered diagnostic report
100%
Workflow coverage — every manual step measured
0.003σ
Leakage detection threshold on the entropy model
$
Every finding denominated in recoverable capital
THE PROBLEM
You can't fix what no one has priced.
Most operational waste is invisible to conventional analysis because it's distributed — a few minutes here, a buffer there, a write-off that never gets traced to its cause. Individually trivial. In aggregate, it's the difference between margin and miss.
FRICTION TYPE 01
Re-keying & handoffs
The same data entered into three systems by three people. Pure labor cost with a defect rate attached to every transcription.
FRICTION TYPE 02
Decision latency
Approvals and exceptions waiting in queues. Every hour of delay is deferred revenue or a missed commitment with a real price.
FRICTION TYPE 03
Silent write-offs
Leakage that's been normalized into the budget. Once measured and ranked, it stops being a cost of doing business.
THE METHOD
A forensic audit, not a survey.
We instrument the real workflow rather than interview people about it. The diagnostic runs on measured telemetry and returns a ranked matrix of recoverable capital — defensible enough to take to your board.
01
Instrument
Capture workflow telemetry, transaction logs, and decision-latency metrics — no sampling.
02
Model the entropy
A KL-divergence model locates leakage to a 0.003σ threshold, surfacing waste others miss.
03
Price every gap
Each leakage point is denominated in recoverable annual capital and ranked.
04
Deliver the matrix
A ranked fiscal gap matrix within 72 hours — the evidence base for every decision.
WHAT IT SURFACES
Numbers that change the conversation.
Representative findings from completed fiscal friction diagnostics.
$2.8M
Median recoverable
Annual capital identified as recoverable in a typical mid-market diagnostic.
23%
Hidden from view
Share of identified leakage that was invisible to the client's existing reporting.
≤72h
To full report
From kickoff to a board-ready matrix — fast enough to inform the next decision.
THE DELIVERABLE
The ranked fiscal gap matrix.
One artifact that turns "we think there's waste somewhere" into a prioritized, dollar-denominated recovery plan.
OUTPUT 01
Ranked leakage points
Every gap, ordered by recoverable value.
OUTPUT 02
Annual $ exposure
Each finding priced as recoverable capital per year.
OUTPUT 03
Effort-to-recover
The implementation cost and timeline for each fix.
OUTPUT 04
Recovery sequence
The order of operations that maximizes early yield.