OperaNova Auto-FTE · AI Cost Controller

The way it works today

How the money leaks right now.

In most kitchens the numbers are checked by hand, long after the stock is through the door. Deliveries, invoices, usage and takings each pass through a person and a spreadsheet — and every handoff is a place an overcharge or a wrong-unit receipt can quietly slip past.

Deliveries & invoices arrive

Stock lands and the paperwork piles up in an inbox.

Spot-checked by hand

A clerk eyeballs a few lines against a spreadsheet — most go through unread.

spot-checked only

Overcharge slips through

A price creep or a wrong-unit receipt clears approval and gets paid.

overpaid

Variance found weeks later

The gap surfaces at month-end — if anyone reconciles it at all.

found too late

Money already gone

By the time it is spotted the cash has left — no way to claw it back.

What it costs

Small leaks, paid every week.

01 — Over-receipts

A delivery far bigger than it should be.

A wrong-unit order — cases booked as pieces — puts months of stock on the shelf in one drop. Spotted by hand, it is signed for and paid before anyone does the maths.

02 — Price spikes

A supplier charging above your recent average.

A quiet few percent on a staple, month after month, never triggers a second look. Nobody is comparing this invoice to the last one — so the creep just compounds.

03 — Margin leaks

Selling a dish below a healthy profit.

Costs drift up while the menu price stands still, and an item quietly turns loss-making. Without live costing against 12 months of sales, it sells at a loss for weeks before it shows.

The autonomous way

Every number screened, before the money moves.

OperaNova replaces the manual spot-check with an always-on cost controller. Five live checks screen every delivery and sweep usage, sales and margins — and the moment something is off, it pushes an alert with the money at risk attached.

WATCH

Screens every delivery

Every stock delivery, invoice, usage and sales line read the moment it arrives — nothing waved through.

REASON

Runs five checks

Wrong-unit, price spike, usage variance, sales anomaly and loss-making margin — each scored with the money at risk.

ACT

Pushes the alert

A clean email and a message to your chat apps fire in seconds, duplicates filtered — no one has to open a report.

REPORT

Proves the call

Every flag carries severity, the money attached and a full audit trail; cost and margin trends surfaced on the dashboard.

Old way vs the FTE

Same job. A different league.

The conventional back-office

The OperaNova FTE

ScreeningA hand spot-check of a few lines.

ScreeningFive live checks on every delivery, invoice and sale.

SpeedReconciled at month-end — days or weeks later.

SpeedFlagged in seconds, before the delivery is approved.

CoverageWhatever a clerk has time to check.

CoverageEvery line — deliveries, usage, sales and margins.

Money at riskGuessed at, or found once it is gone.

Money at riskAttached to every flag, with severity and audit trail.

AvailabilityOffice hours, sick days, month-end crunch.

Availability24/7 — always watching, never off.

CostA junior cost-controller seat, 120–160 hrs/month.

Cost≥50% less — seconds, not hours.

See it live · the receiving gate

It catches the leak at the door.

veloce://fte-04 — receiving gate

01

Receive 10,000 cases of a sachet — a fat-finger for 10,000 pieces.

02

The agent instantly flags a critical over-receipt — "12+ months of stock in one delivery" — with the money at risk attached.

03

A clean message and email fire and it drops on the dashboard feed — live, in under a second. No one had to open a report.

OperaNova is the most literal embodiment of the fleet thesis — an agent named for the role it replaces, alerting you the moment money is at risk. It already watches every delivery at the gate and quantifies the impact; the next step is a guarded action loop so it can hold the suspicious delivery, not just point at it.

Why an FTE beats a seat

Software advantages, stated plainly.

~500×

Faster — screens a delivery in seconds, work that takes a person hours.

≥50%

Lower cost than the cost-controller seat it replaces.

24/7

Always watching — every delivery, never sick, late or off.

100%

Audited — every flag carries severity, the money at risk and a full trail.

How we deliver it — today vs next

Honest about what ships today.

Shipping today

In production — every item below runs live.

✦Five live detectors — wrong-unit / over-receipt, price spike, usage variance, sales anomaly and loss-making margins, each scored with the money at risk.
✦Watches deliveries and the books — screens every stock delivery before it's approved and sweeps usage, sales and margins, with duplicates filtered out.
✦Alerts that come to you — a clean email and a message to your chat apps, plus a live feed on the dashboard. No one had to open a report.
✦Recipe & cost advisor — a chef view and a finance view weigh a change together and return one grounded recommendation, backed by your real recipes, costing and 12 months of sales.
✦A full back-office underneath — menu, inventory with a tamper-proof stock ledger, double-entry accounting, loyalty, HR and reports, with role-based access and an audit record on every change.

On the roadmap

From always watching to always acting — not shipped, never demoed as live.

◆Unattended full-book sweeps — the same checks sweep usage, sales and margins on a continuous schedule, with no one pressing start.
◆Close the loop — let the agent hold a flagged delivery, draft a price correction or raise a recipe-change request for a person to approve.
◆Multi-chain onboarding — a guided path to load a new chain's menu, costing and sales, with per-site alert settings.
◆Trust layer — quality checks on the advisor's answers and a clear audit link from each AI suggestion to the change it drove.

Straight talk: the five detectors and the recipe advisor are real and in production today — the agent flags with the money attached and a person makes the call. Autonomous action is the next step, not a claim we make now.

The checks it runs

Five detectors, one tireless controller.

Over-receipt

DELIVERY · SCREEN

Catches a wrong-unit order — a delivery far larger than it should be — before it is signed for.

Price-spike

INVOICE · COMPARE

Flags a supplier charging above your recent average, so the quiet creep never compounds.

Variance

USAGE · SALES

Reads stock used against the recipes, and takings against their 12-month norm, to surface the gap.

Margin

COSTING · PROTECT

Watches live costing against menu price and warns the moment a dish turns loss-making.