For the owner and finance
The owner sets the floors. The platform holds them.
A margin policy that lives in somebody's head is a policy that bends under pressure and leaves no record of having bent. Here it is a versioned object: every computed row is stamped with a hash of the policy that judged it, every sign-off is append-only, and a below-cost concession can be made to require your own signature and a written reason.
What you are actually buying
Not a report. A control that sits in the path of the transaction, plus the evidence that it did something — a ledger of lines held to a floor and declines raised in time, carrying the operands each figure was computed from, so any number opens into the rows that produced it.
What the owner sees
- Everything a manager sees, plus the margin policy itself and its history
- Users, roles and what each role's responses actually contain
- Connections, credentials and the trust surface — disclosure, erasure, break-glass
- The value ledger, with what could not be measured printed above what could
Nothing
The owner is the role every other role is scoped against, so there is no column here and this page will not invent one to look even-handed. What that costs is worth knowing: an owner reading a screen is reading the unredacted book, and the roles below are where the withholding actually happens.
Three things, on your own numbers
Deterministic arithmetic over rows your ERP already wrote, stamped with the version of the policy that judged it. The AI reads those numbers and phrases them; it never produces one.
The policy is an object, not a habit
You edit the floors and thresholds; the platform stamps every computed row with a content hash of what judged it. Change the policy and last quarter's numbers still say which one produced them, which is what makes the policy safe to change at all.
The irreversible concession needs your name on it
Where your policy requires it, a line priced below what the item cost escalates past the manager to you, and approving it will not proceed without a written reason. It is the one concession the money is gone on the moment the quote leaves.
A ledger that prints its own gaps first
What the platform was worth, counted from the operands rather than asserted — and a month with no detection reads UNKNOWN rather than zero. What could not be measured prints above what could, because a number you cannot check is worth less than an honest gap.
The limits, before you find them in week three
Each of these is a thing the product does not do for owners and finance today. They are on the page because the alternative is you finding them after a pilot.
- PIE writes nothing to Prophet 21, Sage X3 or Sage 100 — those connectors are read-only. On NetSuite, Acumatica, Dynamics 365 Business Central and Zoho Books the one thing it can create is the quote, and only if you grant that permission separately.
- Your ERP remains the system of record. What PIE derives is rebuilt from nothing by a complete re-sync, which is a property worth checking rather than taking on trust.
- Special pricing agreements and manufacturer rebates are not modelled at all, so on a rebate-heavy book the computed floor is not the floor you actually have.
- No customer is named on this site and no case study is published, because there is not yet one whose figures we have permission to print. Ask on the call and you will get a straight answer about who is running it.
Why it can be trusted
The AI never computes a single number.
Your business data and your rules determine the number. AI explains it.
Same inputs, same answer, every time — with a paper trail.
- Deterministic calculations — every figure is arithmetic on your own records; turn AI off and every number still works
- Auditable decisions — each number names the policy that produced it, so a price you quoted last quarter still explains itself
- Your data — read from your own books, used for you alone, exportable and erasable on request; AI runs on your own account
- Your rules — you set the floors and thresholds, and PIE holds every quote to them
- Provenance — every row carries the connector, the connection and the id it came from, so nothing in PIE claims a source it did not have
What owners and finance ask first
How do I know the AI is not quietly setting a price?
Because the deterministic packages cannot import the AI one, and a test parses the imports rather than grepping them, so a package mentioned in a comment cannot pass it. Turn the AI off and every number on every screen still computes. That is a structural claim rather than a policy one.
What does PIE do to my ERP?
Reads it, over the permissions you grant, and each system's page lists them exactly. Three of the seven connectors cannot write at all. Nothing is created without a permission granted separately for that purpose.
Can we get our data out, or erased?
Yes to both — export and erasure are mechanisms in the product rather than clauses in a contract, and erasure produces a receipt. Every row carries the connector, the connection and the id it came from, so what is held is enumerable rather than a matter of trust.
What is it going to cost?
That depends on how many companies you connect, which ERP each one sits on and how much catalog there is to build, so this site states no price rather than printing one that is wrong for you. It is a conversation, and a short one.
What is the honest reason this might not work for us?
Three, in order. If a large share of your purchases is claimed back through special pricing agreements, the floor PIE computes is not your real floor and it will hold profitable lines. If your value is in cross-manufacturer interchange outside metalworking, the engine will find lines in your own book and will not propose equivalents. And nothing resolves until somebody has uploaded your price lists and confirmed how each is read — that is real work, done once.
Three people, three screens, one set of numbers
The same rows, projected differently and enforced in one place. Reading the other two is the fastest way to see where the line actually falls.
PIE for salespeople
Paste an enquiry as it arrived and get priced lines. You see the floor, the recommended price and this customer's own history — cost and margin are absent from the response, not hidden in the browser. The guardrail travels with the quote instead of living in a manager's head.
PIE for sales managers
Every quote line checked against your policy before it goes out, breaches held for your sign-off with the rule that stopped them named, and the accounts that changed raised as a short list rather than a dashboard. Every figure opens into the rows beneath it.
Your books already know where the margin went.
30–45 minutes, your own numbers on the screen, and an honest answer about what PIE can and cannot see on your book.