Case study · From the Pluris libraryReceipt no. 1597
What sucked
Ceres Environmental, a founder-owned environmental and disaster recovery company started in 1976, had accumulated fifty years of operational history: millions of transactions and thousands of projects spread across spreadsheets, reports, contracts and systems.
Answers depended on knowing which person to call. Project profitability analysis meant pulling from several systems and assembling reports by hand after the fact, and requests from bankers, lenders and auditors pulled in multiple employees for several days each.
What they built
Synopsis connected five decades of Ceres Environmental's operational and financial records into one AI interface that leadership, finance and corporate development use to answer questions on project profitability, equipment utilization, customer concentration, contracts and reporting in seconds.
What changed
Finance onboarding in weeks, not months
New Director of Finance ramped using the platform directly
~60-day payback on the platform
CFO's conservative estimate: 10x+ return within 8 months
Answers in seconds, down from days
Banker, lender and auditor requests answered on the spot
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