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Sigma x Makena Capital, 50% of analyst hours freed from Excel

50% of weekly analyst hours reclaimed from manual report building (10–20 hours/week)

Data assembly drudgery to analysis-focused work

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Why it works

The case study earns its headline by anchoring the before-state in a concrete, embarrassing detail: a core dashboard with a 50% failure rate on open that senior staff refused to use. The fiduciary risk angle (four analysts producing four different outputs on a $20B book) raises the stakes beyond productivity and gives the efficiency story a consequence that readers in financial services will feel immediately. The secondary New Capability tag is justified by Scenario Lab, which the text explicitly says would not have been possible in the previous Excel paradigm.

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Quantify the embarrassing failure of the old system in a single, vivid stat before introducing the solution. A dashboard that fails to open half the time is more damaging to reader comfort than any efficiency percentage.

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  • Vendor Sigma
  • Customer Makena Capital
  • Industry Fintech / Payments
  • Trigger Monolithic Excel dashboard with 50% failure rate on open and inconsistent outputs creating fiduciary risk
  • Format Written narrative
  • Structure Challenge-Solution-Results
  • Medium Web page