Takes 8–12 minutes. Have your last fiscal-year P&L and balance sheet handy. Your margins benchmarked against 5,900+ companies in 94 industries. Free scan to see if you qualify for our Full Diagnostic offer.
Damodaran / NYU Stern Data94 Industries5,900+ Companies100% Browser-Side
What You’ll Get
Margin Quotient™ (0–100)
Your overall margin maturity score across Sales, Pricing, and Supply Chain.
P&L & Balance Sheet Benchmark
Your financials vs. industry median across 10 KPIs with $ impact. Damodaran benchmarks: 5,900+ companies, 94 industries.
Margin Squeeze Index™
How much market forces are compressing your margins vs. what you can control through process improvement.
Top 3 Gaps
Your highest-impact margin opportunities with dollar estimates.
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94 industries, 5,900+ public companies (Damodaran/NYU Stern). Try "cosmetics", "pharma", or a company like "Caterpillar".
Select every country where the company operates. MSI™ will be equally weighted across selected geographies. Financial ratios use global Damodaran benchmarks regardless of country.
10 questions to understand why your margins are where they are. Rate 1 (ad-hoc) to 5 (best-in-class).
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These 10 questions help us spot which levers will move your margins fastest — quick wins (pricing discipline, discount governance), urgent gaps (cost pass-through lag, forecast accuracy), or transformation plays (commercial operating model, SIOP maturity). Your answers stay in your browser and are combined with your financials to generate your personalized Margin Architecture™ diagnostic. No individual answers are shared — only your overall maturity score.
Sales
How structured is your sales process - pipeline management, quoting discipline, CRM adoption, deal desk?
Select a rating to see what each level means for your organization.
Commercial Discipline
Do you have clear customer segmentation, differentiated pricing, and systematic discount governance?
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Pricing
How well does your organization manage pricing - discount visibility, annual price reviews, approval governance?
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Pricing - Cost Pass-Through
When input costs change, how quickly do you adjust prices to protect margins?
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Supply Chain
How mature is your demand planning and inventory management - forecast accuracy, safety stock, SIOP?
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Pricing — Willingness to Pay
When you raise prices, do you know in advance which customers will push back and which won't?
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Pricing — Experimentation
Do you run pricing experiments or A/B tests (e.g. tiered pricing, promotional A/B, value-message tests) to learn what customers will pay?
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Sales — Indecision Rate
What share of your lost deals are lost to “no decision” (prospect doesn't act) vs. lost to a competitor?
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Supply Chain — Demand Predictability
How predictable is your demand — stable for most SKUs, mixed, or volatile for most?
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Supply Chain — Forecast Accuracy
Do you track forecast accuracy (MAPE, bias, or Forecast Value Added) at the SKU or planner level?
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The ADEXMA Framework
Data In
Revenue
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Gross Margin
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Inventory
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MQ Lite Inputs
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Margin Architecture™ (MA)
SALES
value capture
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MQ —/100
PRICING
value realization
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MQ —/100
SUPPLY CHAIN
value delivery
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MQ —/100
Margin Quotient™ Lite Score: —/100 (10-question quick scan)
Market Intelligence
Margin Squeeze Index™ (MSI): —
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Value Out
EBITDA Lift
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Working Capital
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What Just Happened
You entered your P&L and balance sheet and rated operational maturity on 10 dimensions. We benchmarked you in seconds — all in your browser, with zero line items sent to our servers.
How We Did It
Financials compared against Damodaran/NYU Stern (94 industries, 5,900+ companies) for —. MQ™ calibrated against a 1,177-company peer benchmark. MSI via FRED PPI through —.
Why It’s Actionable
EBITDA lift is the controllable portion only — market exposure stripped out. Each dollar maps to a pillar and a next-step framework. EV range uses your industry's public EV/EBITDA (Damodaran) with a 0.70–0.85 mid-market size discount.
Executive Summary
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Performance vs. Peers
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Return on Capital
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MSI × MQ Positioning — Where You Sit & Where You're Heading
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Margin Quality Quick Scan
ADEXMA Market Pulse
Monthly margin intelligence for your industry. Commodity trends, tariff impacts, benchmark shifts, and what they mean for your margins. No spam — just data.
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Margin Architecture™ — Detailed Analysis
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Next Steps
Your scan identified improvement opportunities. Here are two ways to turn insights into action.
Full Diagnostic — you qualify
Get Your Prioritized Action Plan
This free scan is the qualification step. If your numbers show real margin upside, the Full Diagnostic validates these findings with your operational data and delivers 3 specific initiatives you can start this quarter — with quantified ROI, owner assignments, and 90-day milestones.
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$1K deposit • $250K+ guaranteed or you owe nothing more
30-minute call with Cedric to dig into your top opportunity, discuss what's realistic for your team, and decide together whether the Full Diagnostic is the right next step.
Methodology, Industry Benchmarks & Sources —
94 industries, 5,900+ companies (Damodaran/NYU Stern, Jan 2026). MQ™ benchmarked against 128 companies. MSI™ via FRED/BLS data. All calculations run locally in your browser.
Size-premium disclosure. Damodaran benchmarks are public-company medians; EV multiples are scaled with a 0.70–0.85 size discount (GF Data / BVR DealStats) for mid-market ($25–250M revenue) reality. Operating-margin medians are presented unadjusted. Scan output is directional; the Full Diagnostic validates with client-specific data.
What this scan cannot tell you. This is a self-serve scan built on financial ratios and self-reported maturity scores. It identifies where margin opportunity likely sits, but not why at the operational level. The Full Diagnostic goes deeper with your actual transaction data, demand history, and team interviews to validate and quantify what the scan surfaces directionally. Treat it as a structured first conversation, not a complete diagnosis.
Margin Performance Scan
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Executive Summary
Key Findings
ADEXMA Framework — Margin Architecture™ Overview
Your Action Plan
Performance & Positioning |
Performance vs. Peers
Your financials benchmarked against industry median, with gap and dollar impact
Line Item
Amount
Your %
Ind. Median
Gap
$ Impact
MSI × MQ™ Positioning — Where You Sit & Where You’re Heading
Margin Architecture™ |
Margin Architecture™ — Performance Scan
Where you stand across the three pillars of margin
MQ™
Margin Architecture™
Performance Scan
Total improvement opportunity
Foundation
Market Intelligence — Margin Squeeze Index™
About This Analysis
Margin Architecture™ benchmarks your financials against industry peers and assesses operational maturity across three pillars. Financial benchmarks: Damodaran/NYU Stern (94 industries, 5,900+ companies, Jan 2026). MQ™ calibrated against 128 companies. MSI™ via FRED/BLS (US) and Eurostat/StatCan data. All calculations run locally in your browser — your financial line items are never transmitted. Opportunity estimates are directional. A Full Diagnostic validates these findings with your operational data.
Detailed Analysis |
Margin Architecture™ — Detailed Analysis
Where you stand, why, and how to sustain improvement — across Sales, Pricing, and Supply Chain
Next Steps |
Next Steps
Full Diagnostic — you qualify
Get Your Prioritized Action Plan
This free scan is the qualification step. The Full Diagnostic validates these findings with your operational data and delivers 3 specific initiatives with quantified ROI, owner assignments, and 90-day milestones.
$10,000
$1K deposit • $250K+ guaranteed or you owe nothing more
Free 30-min qualification call
Discuss Your #1 Priority
30-minute call to dig into your top opportunity and decide together if the Full Diagnostic is the right next step.