Reports everywhere, clarity nowhere
Your POS, your billing platform, your QuickBooks — all generating data you don't have time to make sense of. You know something's off. You just can't prove it.
📊 Businesses we audit identify an average of $38,000 in annual savings — using data they already had. Book a free call →
Data Analytics Consulting · Operational Cost Reduction · USA
Uncover hidden operational costs with AI-assisted data analytics.
Simsum USA LLC combines data analytics consulting with AI-assisted analysis to surface operational inefficiencies, quantify cost savings, and deliver clear written findings — in 10 days, at a flat fee. No new tools. No long-term commitment before you see results.
Flat-fee pricing· No surprise invoices
Defined deliverable· Or full refund
Results in 10 days· Not 10 weeks
No new tools needed· Use what you have
AI-assisted analysis· Pattern detection at scale
Joining 30+ business owners who found cost savings they didn't know existed.
Real findings from recent audits
$52K/yr
identified
4-location restaurant
Vendor pricing + menu cost outliers
$34K/yr
identified
Professional services firm ($2.4M)
Unbilled support hours — 3 clients = 60% of unrecovered cost
$41K/yr
identified
HVAC service co.
Labor scheduling gaps: 12+ idle hrs/week
All findings from the $500 Data Clarity Audit
30+ businesses audited
5.0 avg. client rating
Deliverable guaranteed or full refund
Serving restaurants · service businesses · professional servicesDoes this sound like your business?
Most business owners feel the pain but can't locate the source. That gap costs real money every month it stays unsolved.
Costs climbing, cause unknown
Labor, overhead, supplier costs — the numbers keep moving in the wrong direction and nobody can tell you exactly why. You're managing by feel when you need to manage by fact.
Enterprise analytics costs too much, bookkeeping doesn't go deep enough
Large analytics firms want Fortune 500 retainers. Your bookkeeper doesn't do this kind of analysis. There's a gap — and it's costing you real money every month.
We've seen all three in the same business. A 10-day audit finds them all.
See If We Can Find Your SavingsReal results
What we found in recent audits
These are actual findings — not projections. Every number was in the client's existing data. We just looked.
Restaurant Group · 4 locations
$52K/yr identified
identified
Food cost reduced from 34.1% → 28.9%
Audit surfaced a vendor pricing discrepancy and menu item cost outliers that had gone unnoticed for 14 months.
Professional Services Firm · 12 staff
$38K/yr recovered
identified
Billable utilization raised from 61% → 79%
Audit identified three client accounts consuming 40% of unbilled support hours. Repricing and contract adjustments recovered the margin.
HVAC Service Co. · 18 technicians
$41K/yr identified
identified
Labor utilization raised from 58% → 74%
Scheduling gaps between jobs were costing 12+ hours of paid idle time per week. Rerouting cut that to under 3.
Case details anonymized. Findings verified against client data at engagement close.
From first call to findings in 10 days
No proposals. No weeks of onboarding. A clear, fast process with a written deliverable at the end.
01
Day 1Free 20-min discovery call
We ask about your business, your data, and your biggest cost concerns. No pitch — just an honest conversation about whether we can help.
02
Days 2–3You share your existing data
Export whatever you already have — POS reports, accounting files, billing records, project data. No new tools, no setup. We work with what exists.
03
Days 4–10We deliver your written findings
A clear report: your top 3–5 cost leaks, each with a dollar estimate attached, and a ranked action roadmap. Plus a 60-min debrief call.
The guarantee
Every audit produces a written report with specific findings and dollar estimates. If we can't deliver that, you get a full refund. No questions asked.
Simple, transparent pricing
Start with the audit — see the value — then decide whether to continue. No commitment required to get started.
Data Clarity Audit
Find out exactly where your business is leaking money.
$500Flat fee · Results in 10 days
- Analysis of 4–6 core cost categories
- Top 3–5 inefficiencies with dollar estimates
- Prioritized action roadmap
- Written report + 60-min debrief call
Defined deliverable guaranteed or full refund.
Book the Audit →Efficiency Retainer
Turn findings into real, tracked savings every month.
$1,000–$3,000Per month · 3-month min.
- Monthly data review & strategy call
- Progress tracking vs. audit baseline
- Up to 2 deep-dive analyses/month
- Monthly Savings & Performance Report
Data Partnership
Embedded fractional analytics for growing businesses.
$4,500–$7,500Per month · 6-month min.
- Unlimited analytical requests
- Weekly data pulse + quarterly review
- Custom KPI framework for your model
- Present across hiring, pricing, ops decisions
Our methodology
How we use AI in our analysis
Human-led analysis, enhanced by AI — not a replacement for analytical judgment or consulting expertise. Here is what it actually does in practice.
Pattern detection across large datasets
Operational data — scheduling logs, transaction records, billing exports — contains patterns that are difficult to spot by hand when you're looking at months of records. We use AI-assisted tools to scan the full dataset quickly, flagging clusters and trends that warrant closer examination.
Anomaly identification
Some of the most significant cost drivers are one-offs that don't fit the pattern: a vendor whose pricing drifted over 14 months, a job category with an unusually high repeat-visit rate, a client account where time logged consistently exceeds what was billed. AI helps surface these outliers systematically rather than by chance.
Faster insight generation
A manual analysis of 12 months of transaction data might take days. AI-assisted processing shortens that to hours — which means more time is spent on the work that actually requires human judgment: interpreting findings, understanding context, and producing recommendations that are actionable for your specific situation.
Supporting decisions, not making them
AI identifies what the data shows. Our consultants determine what it means — whether a finding is significant, what caused it, and what to do about it. Every recommendation in the written report reflects analytical judgment, not an automated output. The goal is better-informed decisions, not automated ones.
We know your industry before we look at your numbers
We work with businesses across industries, with deep experience in operational cost optimization.
Restaurants
Food cost %, labor scheduling, table turn rates, vendor pricing — we find where your margins are eroding using your existing POS data.
Food cost %Labor ratioTable turnWaste
Professional Services
Client profitability, project margins, billing efficiency, and resource allocation — we identify where revenue is leaking and where margins can be improved using your existing systems.
Billable utilizationProject marginClient profitabilityResource allocation
Service Businesses
Job profitability, technician utilization, scheduling gaps, recurring revenue — we help you do more with the team you already have.
UtilizationJob marginSchedule gapsChurn
Our consulting approach is adaptable across industries and is not limited to specific sectors. If your organization generates operational data and has costs worth analyzing, our analytics consulting engagements are designed to deliver value regardless of industry.
What Our Clients Say
From restaurant owners to service company operators — here's what the audit actually delivered.
5.0
“I knew our food costs were too high but had no idea where. The audit found $52K in a week — the vendor pricing issue alone paid for it 30 times over.”
5.0
“We'd been tracking returns for 3 years and nobody had ever looked at the data by product. One audit later, we eliminated 60% of our return problem.”
5.0
“The report showed exactly which technicians were running at 55% utilization and why. We recovered 12 billable hours a week within two months.”
4.5
“I was expecting vague recommendations. What I got was a 12-page report with specific dollar figures next to every finding. Very different from what I expected.”
5.0
“Three vendors had quietly raised prices over 18 months. Nobody caught it until this audit. That alone saved us $14,000 a year on ingredients.”
5.0
“Our return rate was 24% and we treated it as normal. Turns out 4 product lines were driving most of it. Fixed the descriptions, return rate dropped to 14% in 90 days.”
4.5
“The debrief call was the most useful hour I've spent on my business this year. Clear, direct, no fluff — just here's what's happening and here's what to do about it.”
5.0
“I'd tried two other consultants before. Both gave me frameworks. Simsum gave me a number: $28,000 in recoverable cost, here's where it is.”
5.0
“Scheduling data I'd had for two years but never analyzed. The audit turned it into a routing change that cut daily idle time by 40 minutes per driver.”
4.5
“Straightforward process, realistic timeline, and the report was actually readable. I shared it with my business partner and we both agreed on the next steps immediately.”
4.9average rating
10+verified client engagements
$38Kaverage savings identified
$38K
Avg. annual savings identified per audit
10
Days from first call to written findings
100%
Deliverable guarantee — report or full refund
0
New tools required. We use your existing data.
From our analytics work
Insights from our analytics work
Practical analysis from real consulting engagements — written for operators, not analysts.
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Find out what your data is hiding.
Book a free 20-minute call. We'll tell you honestly whether we can find significant savings in your business.
No commitment. No pitch. Just an honest conversation about your numbers.