About us
The analysis was never the hard part.
Menu engineering was published in 1982. Rolling cash forecasts are older than that. RFM scoring predates the personal computer. None of it is secret, and none of it is complicated. It has simply always been packaged for companies that can pay somebody to run it.
Why we built it
A gap, not a market.
A restaurant group with forty sites has an analyst who knows, every Monday, which dishes lost money last week and which week in the quarter looks tight. A restaurant with one site has a POS report and a shoebox.
The owner of that single site is making harder decisions with less information, on thinner margins, and usually after a fourteen-hour day. That is the wrong way round.
So we took the standard methods, the ones in the hospitality finance textbooks, and built them into something that runs on a laptop in a back office, needs no consultant, and costs the business nothing.
What we hold to.
Compute it, do not guess it
Every figure comes from unit-tested arithmetic before any language model sees it. An AI that narrates real numbers is useful; one that invents plausible ones is dangerous when the subject is somebody’s rent.
Collect as little as the job allows
We need an email to run a programme with places in it, so we ask for one. We do not need your ledger, so it never leaves your device. Data you never hold is data you can never lose, leak, or be compelled to hand over.
Free, and funded openly
The businesses we serve pay nothing. The analysis system is donated by littleconsult.com and hosting and domain costs by sigmaclava.com. We would rather name our funding than have you wonder about it.
Explain the method
Every number is published with the reasoning behind it, and the whole method is written down. An owner should be able to disagree with our maths, not just accept it.
Never hold the data hostage
CSV and JSON export are in the free tier and always will be. Leaving should be as easy as arriving.
The name
Hometown Digital Helpers.
Main streets are full of businesses running on instinct and long hours, competing against groups with finance teams. We wanted a name that said who we are for rather than what technology we use.
HDHICT is the short form you will see in the product and in the address bar, because “Hometown Digital Helpers” does not fit in a sidebar. It means the same thing.
Have a look at what we built.
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