The one-page pack — a dashboard that answers questions instead of showing charts

The problem

Your dashboard has twenty-two tiles. In leadership meetings, three are ever referenced. The other nineteen exist because someone asked for them once, in 2024, and nobody has retired anything since.

What you need

Tiles: Revenue ₹4.82cr (target 5.40, prior 5.44) · Cash runway 118 days (target 90+, prior 104) · Accounts ordering this month 164/190 (prior 178) · Gross margin 31.2% (target 32, prior 30.8) · Overdue receivables ₹87L (target <60, prior 71). Detail: two accounts explain 68% of revenue decline…

The tool

Your existing system, Excel or a BI tool

The prompt

What comes back

Revenue — Two west-territory accounts explain 68% of the shortfall; the other 187 were within normal range. Cash runway — Improved 14 days on slower inventory purchasing, not on better collections.

Verify before you use it

• The cash-runway commentary is the important one. An improvement caused by not buying inventory is not an improvement, and a bare number would have read as good news.
• Resolve the [UNCONFIRMED] item about which five accounts are non-seasonal. That is a five-minute check and it may be the month's real finding.
• Verify the ₹52L Sharma Traders overdue figure independently. It now appears in two tiles and will be quoted.
• Check that 'within normal range' is genuine for gross margin — confirm against the last twelve months, not against last month.