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Insights

Once the data is clean, the leak surfaces.

Reconciliation answers a question you already ask. Insights answers the questions you didn't know to ask. The cash gap. The card scams. The attendant who keeps coming up short. Same data. Different question.

The Lekana Insights tab
The Insights tab. Three live, one new, two on the way.

From the pilot. Six months in.

The leak for one business was R 42 000 to R 100 000 a month.

Money that balanced on paper and still never arrived. Insights surfaced where, who, and why.

Reprint scams Declines never resubmitted Pump shortfalls daily totals couldn't show

R 42 000

Lowest month

R 100 000

Highest month

6

Months running

One site. One business. Figures shared with permission, anonymised here.

The reports

Each one looks at the same day. Each asks a different question.

Report 01

New

Cash gap.

Expected cash from the till, against the cash that actually left the building. Nine times out of ten there's a difference, and the difference is where the tricks happen. Voids, under-rings, skim before the count. The drawer treated as a real ledger, finally.

The Cash gap report

Report 02

Live

Reconciliation overview.

The whole period on one page. Sales by type. Bank transactions by bank. Cash gap by day. Match rate as a clear bar. The figures your accountant asks for, in the order they ask for them.

Reconciliation overview report

Report 03

Live

Attendants.

Who's consistent. Who's slipping. Shortfall allocated to the people who handled the transactions. Pump calibration error split out separately because that isn't theirs to wear. The rest is.

Attendants report

Report 04

Live

Declined card transactions.

Every declined card, grouped by card number. Repeated declines in a short window. Late-night declines on the same card. Cards that decline and then mysteriously recover. Fraud patterns that hide in a transaction log become visible the moment the data is grouped properly.

Declined card transactions report

For retail

Retail runs on the Cash Gap report today.

The same engine, tuned for the shop floor. Card reconciled, cash counted against the till, and the Cash Gap surfaced, for a butchery, a grocer, any retail business. The attendant and card-pattern reports above are fuel-specific. Their retail versions are next.

The Cash Gap report for a retail business

On the way

Two more, already in the build.

Coming soon

Trends

Match rate, cash gap and discrepancy patterns over time. See whether things are getting better or worse, period over period.

Coming soon

Pump performance

Sales and discrepancies broken down by pump number. Find the pumps that consistently produce variance.

Why this works

A pattern in a spreadsheet is invisible. A pattern in Insights is a name and a number.

The reconciliation engine produces clean data. Insights groups that data the way a human would, if a human had a week to spend on it. The output is not a chart you stare at. It's the leak, located, with the trail to whoever or whatever made it.

The gap is the answer. Insights tells you why.

Pilot businesses get the full platform. Reconciliation and Insights together, free for three weeks.