Meridian found €4.2M hiding in its own margins.
Revenue was climbing. Margin was quietly slipping. Sixty dashboards couldn't say why — so Meridian pulled every thread through the loom and read the pattern in an afternoon.
Growing on top, fraying underneath.
Meridian had spent three years building a modern stack: a warehouse, a BI tool, sixty-odd dashboards. Sales were up 14% year on year. Yet gross margin had drifted down for five straight quarters, and no one could give the board a straight answer as to why. Every dashboard showed a different slice; none of them talked to each other.
"We had more charts than analysts," said Camille Roussel, VP of Analytics. "What we didn't have was the cloth — the whole picture. Every answer raised three more tabs."
Six threads, one loom.
Instead of building a sixty-first dashboard, Meridian mounted their sources as threads and let the loom cross-weave them. Setup took an afternoon — no modelling project, no new pipelines.
Three patterns and a knot.
“We'd been staring at the data for a year. The loom read it in an afternoon — and told us where the money went.”
€4.2M back on the bolt.
Merchandising rationalised the two runaway promotions; supply re-balanced the lagging DC; finance shipped the checkout fix the same day the knot was tied. Within two quarters, gross margin recovered 9.1 points of its slide and stockouts fell by nearly a third — €4.2M of margin Meridian had been quietly handing away.
The loom now runs across merchandising, supply and finance. "It re-weaves itself every morning," Roussel said. "We stopped building dashboards. We just read the cloth."
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