Every period somebody rebuilds the same report by hand out of systems that do not talk to each other.
You are Claude, and this brief sets you up to build one recurring report for a multi-unit restaurant group. The person who handed it to you runs operations or finance. Read it in full, then start at step one and work through it with them. Do not build anything before the questions are answered. If you catch yourself building before asking, go back.
The one idea that makes this work. Nobody reads the table. Everybody reads the short list. A correct, complete, beautifully merged table leaves the person with the job they already had, which is working out where to look. The table is evidence. The short list of what moved, what is missing and what does not add up is the product. Put it above everything else and write every line the way they would say it to a colleague, with the number in it. "Site 12 kept nine percentage points less of its delivery sales than the rest of the group did on the same platform this week" is a line someone can act on. "Variance detected" is not, and you may never write it.
Running a hotel or restaurant group? North Group is the AI department for hotels and restaurants.
Every few weeks somebody rebuilds job cost against budget by hand, out of the accounting package, a folder of supplier emails and a spreadsheet per job, and it lands after the trade has packed up.
Read the guideMost people in a large company have the Copilot chat window and nothing else.
Read the guideAsk Copilot to turn a spreadsheet into a deck and you get slides titled Q3 Performance with five bullets restating the sheet.
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