The 2026 story of Coastline Mechanical, as the app tells it.
It opens on the headlines.
Nine sections, each with its own first sentence, in a fixed order. Press Play the story and the page walks through them, one headline at a time.
Under the headlines: a watch list of 17 fixed lines (6 crossed this month), twelve months of vital signs, and a map of the business drawn as money in, money out, and what is left.
Overview · Headlines Sales +$431,992 (+70%). Costs +37.1%. Payroll +65.5% to $301,499, slower than sales.
What sold, and the table under the sentence.
Eight chapters on income, in the same order for every company. Each sentence prints its figures, and the month that missed is named, not hidden in an average.
Touch a chip and the detail window opens over the story with the rows that made the number. Download Excel sits on every section and every window.
Pull a lever. Watch it reach net income.
The cause map draws the business as a tree: net income at the root, gross profit and overhead as branches, then sales, jobs, ticket size, materials per dollar, marketing per customer. Slide any lever and every number it touches lights up, all the way to the bottom line. Five stress tests sit under it: sales −10%, −20%, −30%, costs +5%, lose the top customer.
Income · Cause map One fixed formula, the same on every company. No formula is fitted to the data; the math is printed under each lever.
Where every $100 of sales went. Where every dollar of cash went.
Two rivers. The money river runs gross sales into cost of jobs, overhead, interest and what stayed as profit: $2.53 of every $100 this year, none last year. The cash river runs what the bank actually saw: $1,318,410 in, $1,193,452 out, the balance up $124,958. Switch years and the river re-draws on the same scale.
Income · Money river switching years
Cash flow · Cash river
What it cost, and who it paid.
Costs grew 37.1% while sales grew 70%: each sales dollar carried 91.3¢ of cost, down from $1.13. Six chapters on expenses, then cost levers, a month grid, and a breakdown by group, vendor, class and location.
Payroll gets its own story and a team timeline: who was paid in which month, field against office, and payroll per sales dollar along the bottom, month by month.
Who owes you. What you owe. What you own.
Receivables by customer and age, payables by vendor and due date, and the balance sheet read as what the business owns against what it owes. The aging maps come from the synced copy of the books, one cell per customer per bucket.
AR · Story $9,877 on 22 open invoices, all past due
AP · Aging map
Balance sheet · Story
