Your business runs with Six Sigma precision inside your walls. Vadar Alpha brings the same precision to the commercial decisions that set your margin: buying, making, selling, and managing risk. We price all four as the market moves.
Purchasing, production, pricing and hedging each run on their own calendar and their own cost numbers. The market moves every day.
Purchasing buys at today's price for products sold next quarter. Sales quotes from last quarter's costs. By the time risk is reviewed monthly, the exposure is already locked in.
Your systems of record (ERP, TMS, OMS) run on standard costs set at budget time. The prices that decide your margin change long before the next budget.
When input costs rise faster than your prices can follow, the difference comes out of earnings, and the quarter misses plan.
Margin is engineered, not discovered.
Nobody can predict the market. Engineering margin means planning for the range it can move in. Vadar Alpha connects the physical, financial and commercial sides of your business: what you make, what you hedge and what you charge. Every purchase, production run, quote and hedge gets a target and a tolerance, set against live prices. When the market moves past a tolerance, you see it first, with the gap explained in dollars.
Vadar Alpha sits above your systems of record. It reads the data you already have and prices each decision against the live market. Because the four decisions are priced together, a change in one updates the other three.
Each team keeps the metric it reports today. Those metrics move your margin, and your margin moves your earnings.
How much more the business earns.
How far the year could fall below plan.
We record every instruction when it is given, read what happened from your own systems, and measure what it earned against a baseline your finance team agrees on before we start. We count each dollar once.
| Opportunity01 Oct · 09:12 | Nov delivery 6% below today's spot | +$1.40M |
|---|---|---|
| Instruction01 Oct · 09:15 | Lock 40% now, 60% in Nov | +$1.40M |
| Action01 Oct · 14:30 | Bought 275 Class III contracts at $16.90/cwt | +$1.31M |
| Proof30 Nov | vs. buying at spot on plan dates | +$1.12M |
Schreiber Foods, a global dairy manufacturer, sells at fixed prices but buys milk at prices that move every day. Its product mix, contract prices and hedges used to be set in spreadsheets, often after the market had already moved. Now all three run on live prices: plants make each product the lowest-cost way, Sales prices contracts so margin holds when costs rise, and the risk desk keeps exposure inside policy while it locks in gains.
Evans Network of Companies, a national trucking network, prices freight in a market that moves daily. Its agents used to quote from rates set once a quarter, so a quote was often too high to win or too low to earn. Now every agent prices any load in the US on demand, at today's market, and sees how sure that price is and what could move it.
Both start on your own data in weeks, not quarters. Both run on one platform, configured to your plants and contracts, with our team beside yours from day one. New capabilities reach you as we build them.
Your team acts, with ours beside them.
Our team acts, inside your limits. You own the positions.
Our customers carry large input costs and thin margins, and sell into markets that resist price increases.
We are operators, engineers and traders. Between us, we have led operations and enterprise delivery, built data platforms at enterprise scale, and managed risk on commodity desks.
20+ years leading trading, pricing, risk and AI at ICE/NYSE, ING and McKesson.
30+ years in energy and tech startups. Former co-head of Constellation Energy's commodities business.
Advises Wisconsin's governor and legislature on technology. Helped grow venture firm gener8tor as its second employee.
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