§ Case studies · sanitized on request
The details are sensitive. The pattern is not.
The work usually involves pricing files, margin logic, internal assumptions, and operating systems companies do not want exposed publicly. Full versions are available in sanitized form on request. No proprietary data, no raw syndicated retail data, no confidential internal files. The hidden system, the work that surfaced it, and what the operating loop became are all in.
§ Library index
Five case studies, on request.
- 01
Real system behind the stated problem
The $120K study that was already sitting in the company's own data
Result: The model is no longer the artifact. The pricing process it seeded is.
- 02
Scattered knowledge turned into usable logic
Bacon pricing across a roughly 95M-lb portfolio, run on stale assumptions
Result: Bacon pricing increased by $0.19/LB Value translated across the portfolio, repeatable inside a loop the team ran long after me.
- 03
Bad assumption hiding inside the system
The booth budget that was a workflow assumption, not a materials cost
Result: Five best-booth awards out of six, at roughly one third of peer cost. After I left, the company spent $40K shipping a single booth. The gap is the proof.
- 04
Market signal before the formal system caught up
A loin filet move the official forecast had not caught up to
Result: Protected margin on roughly 500,000 lbs of exposed promotional volume.
- 05
Origin: engineering-shaped thinking under constraint
Origin proof: an 18 by 7 foot dehydration room, designed from constraints
Result: The company built three. This is origin evidence for how the brain works (constraints, flow, first principles, what is already in the room) not a current offer to come build production equipment.
§ How requests work
No intake form theater.
Email with the situation you're sitting in (a contract, an upcoming review, a margin slip, an AI pilot that's quietly underperforming). I'll send back the most relevant sanitized case and we'll go from there.
michaelborutae@gmail.com · sanitized only, no proprietary data