How Snowstone analyzes company data
Snowstone reads the systems you approve, maps how work runs across workflows, systems, and processes, and finds the value creation opportunities in them.
From company data to a finding you can check
Your team sets the scope and approves access. Snowstone does the reading, analysis, and checking across every approved source.
Connect
You approve read-only access to the systems in scope. No one has to clean up the files first.
Read and match
Snowstone reads email, chat, documents, and system exports, and matches the same people and vendors across them.
Analyze
Snowstone maps how work runs across workflows, systems, and processes, and finds the value creation opportunities in them.
Check
Every citation and calculation is checked against its source. A reviewer examines anything still open.
Deliver
Your team gets a value creation plan and supporting workbooks, with every opportunity ranked by value and linked to its source.
Follow up
If wanted, Snowstone records each decision, so results can be compared months later.
Partners, principals, and executives decide which findings matter, settle exceptions, and approve action. If they want, Snowstone records their reasons and the results next to each finding.
Plug and play, with as little IT work as possible
Connecting Snowstone works like signing in to an app. The IT contact signs in to each system and approves a read-only connection, and Snowstone takes care of the rest.
- 01Agree on scope with management and Snowstone before signing data processing agreements.
- 02Snowstone provisions a private cloud machine for the deployment.
- 03The IT contact signs in and approves each agreed connection with a few clicks.
- 04No network or firewall changes are needed.
- 05Snowstone runs the review and delivers the findings.
- 06Data is securely deleted after the engagement.
Choose where Snowstone runs
Every option keeps each client's data separate. The client chooses the option that fits its security rules.
Separate Snowstone cloud
One private cloud machine per client. The fastest start and the least IT work.
Client's own cloud
Snowstone runs inside the client's cloud account.
Client's own servers
Snowstone runs on site. Requires extensive setup.
Controls built into every review
Reading a whole company helps only when each answer can be traced. These controls tie every finding to its source. Tracking decisions and results, the last two, is optional.
01Matching companies, people, and obligations
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One customer can appear under different names in the accounting system, the sales system, and the contracts. Snowstone works out which entries refer to the same customer. Reviewers can see each proposed match, how confident Snowstone is, and which source supports it. Confirmed matches carry over to later reviews.
Snowstone keeps: companies and people, other names they appear under, relationships, confidence levels, dates, and reviewed exceptions.
02Tracing sources, coverage, and versions
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Snowstone links every number and statement to the file version and period it came from. Reviewers can open citations, check calculations, and see any change made to the data. Interview notes and professional judgments are labeled apart from system data. Snowstone lists every expected source that is missing or restricted.
Snowstone keeps: sources and versions, dates, citations, data changes, reviewer names, and sources read or missing.
03Access limited to authorized people
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Only people the client authorizes use Snowstone, and they already hold the highest level of access to the data in scope.
Snowstone keeps: the sources in scope and the people the client has authorized.
04When sources disagree
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When two sources disagree, for example management's account and the contracts or operating data, Snowstone keeps both, checks each against the rest of the record, and shows which one the evidence supports. If the record cannot settle it, the finding is marked open and names the source that would.
Snowstone keeps: conflicting statements, the evidence for each, how each conflict was resolved, and what is still open.
05How work moves between teams
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Snowstone rebuilds how work happened from transactions, approvals, queues, and system events. Process owners can compare that history with written policy and see each stage, handoff, control, and exception.
Snowstone keeps: process stages, systems, owners, controls, tasks that wait on other work, handoffs, variations, and failure points.
06Decisions and expected effects
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If the client wants decisions tracked, Snowstone records who reviewed an issue, what evidence they used, and what they decided. Reviewers can see the options considered, the approvals, and the expected effect on value, timing, or risk. When an assumption changes, the team can see which decisions need another look.
Snowstone keeps: issues, evidence, reviewer judgments, options, decisions, owners, approvals, actions, and expected effects.
07Actions and results
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If the client wants follow-up, Snowstone records how management responded to each warning, forecast, and recommendation. Reviewers can check whether management acted and what changed, with links back to the original evidence. Teams can test earlier assumptions against later results.
Snowstone keeps: forecasts, warnings, recommendations, decisions to accept or reject them, later results, accuracy history, corrections, and conditions for reuse.
Start small and add data at any time.
Smaller reviews work best when focused on one team or question. Larger reviews give Snowstone more context and evidence for its findings.
| Review | What Snowstone reads | Client IT time* |
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| Minimal reviewData room | Standard data room and core software: ERP, HR, accounting, and industry-specific software. | 1 to 2 hours |
| Medium reviewOperating data | Adds curated sets of routine operating data: process documents, business communications, machine and transaction logs, and standard operational reports. | 2 to 3 hours |
| Full reviewRecommended | Full read access to the data sources that inform company operations. Excludes highly sensitive and non-material data. | 3 to 4 hours |
* Depends on how many data sources are connected. Setup needs at least one IT contact and a call with Snowstone.
Put company-wide analysis behind your next decision.
Snowstone reads the company's data and ranks every fix by what it is worth.