Fresh-cut vegetable plant
Raw product comes in, waits in the cooler, runs across two cut lines, and ships to dock appointments. Receiving and the dock sheet are current; the food safety log is current because it has to be. Yield is stale, figured at month end. Two things are dark: how long product sat in the cooler before it was cut, because nobody joins the receiving log to the line log, and changeovers, logged as down time, never by cause. That is where the shorted cases come from, and nobody totals the deductions. The Frame shows the chain from the cooler door to the remittance, and writes nothing back to your records.
Sample — illustrative mock-up
Two-shift fresh-cut vegetable plant (sample)
The company and the numbers are invented. The shape is the one we find.
as of March 6, 2026 at 17:00 UTC
4 current 2 stale 3 dark
Two weeks back, one week ahead
Each row is one record. The band pinches when the record changes and widens as it ages. Past today it is the Frame looking ahead, and it stops where it can no longer say.
- the record changed
- top row: how far ahead the whole picture could see, day by day
- your own move, marked so the Frame doesn't read it as a trend
- already on the calendar, so it doesn't fade
- Past this line the Frame can't say: Cooler hold is dark.
Receiving & the cooler
2 sensors · 1 current · 0 stale · 1 dark
- Raw product in the cooler current340 bins
age 1h
receiving log
- Hours in the cooler before cutting darkDARK
age —
two logs, never joined
where the yield goes
The cut floor
2 sensors · 0 current · 1 stale · 1 dark
- Minutes lost to changeovers darkDARK
age —
logged as down time, no cause
- Yield, raw to finished stale71%
age 6d
figured at month end
Food safety records
1 sensors · 1 current · 0 stale · 0 dark
- Cooler temperature checks on time current100%
age 2h
food safety log
Shipping
2 sensors · 2 current · 0 stale · 0 dark
- Cases shorted this week current1,150
age 4h
pick sheets against orders
- Trucks loaded late current4 of 38
age 4h
dock appointment sheet
Cash
2 sensors · 0 current · 1 stale · 1 dark
- Customer deductions this month darkDARK
age —
off remittances, never totaled
- Labor cost per case stale$2.14
age 12d
payroll, every two weeks
- Raw product in the cooler feeds → Hours in the cooler before cutting
- Hours in the cooler before cutting feeds → Yield, raw to finished
- Minutes lost to changeovers feeds → Cases shorted this week
- Yield, raw to finished feeds → Cases shorted this week
- Minutes lost to changeovers feeds → Labor cost per case
- Minutes lost to changeovers feeds → Trucks loaded late
- Cases shorted this week feeds → Customer deductions this month
- Trucks loaded late feeds → Customer deductions this month
a value nobody measured is null and renders dark, never zero
Start with a $400 consultation: a generous half day.
In person when we can. You leave with a Frame sketch on one page and a lot of good questions; within a week, a written proposal with deliverables and a price.
Sample — illustrative mock-up
Two-shift fresh-cut vegetable plant (sample)
Two weeks back, one week ahead
Each row is one record. The band pinches when the record changes and widens as it ages. Past today it is the Frame looking ahead, and it stops where it can no longer say.
- the record changed
- top row: how far ahead the whole picture could see, day by day
- your own move, marked so the Frame doesn't read it as a trend
- already on the calendar, so it doesn't fade
- Past this line the Frame can't say: Cooler hold is dark.
This sample, three ways
Two-shift fresh-cut vegetable plant
Sample — illustrative mock-up
Two-shift fresh-cut vegetable plant
Two-shift fresh-cut vegetable plant
Sample — illustrative mock-up