For your business

Meet Fan Li, your business strategist.

Your accounting system can generate a hundred reports. None of them tell you what to do. Fan Li is an analysis layer that sits on the data you already have — it reads the numbers, spots what you didn't think to ask about, and tells you what to act on: reorder these twelve items, chase these three customers first, this product line is quietly eating your margin.

Fan Li — named for 范蠡, the strategist who became one of China's great merchants — is the AI analysis layer behind everything on this page. Built on a real trading business, not a demo.

Analysis, not more reports

Reports show what happened, in shapes somebody decided in advance. That part your system already does. The missing layer is the one that interprets.

What your system already gives you

Reports

What happened — sales listings, stock balances, ageing runs — history, laid out in fixed formats
What you asked for — a report only answers the question it was built to answer

What Fan Li adds

Analysis

Decisions, not displays — "reorder these 12 items" beats another stock chart
Ask anything, in plain language — "why did margin drop last quarter?" — questions nobody pre-built a report for
Sees across systems — joins your accounting data with documents, email and messages, so the answer has context

Works with what you already run

Fan Li doesn't replace your accounting system — it reads from it. Supported today: the on-premise SQL family — AutoCount, SQL Account, ABSS (MYOB). Cloud systems like Xero and QuickBooks are on the roadmap. Your books stay exactly as they are: your data never leaves your building, there's no per-seat subscription, and it keeps working when the internet doesn't. I ran a trading SME on AutoCount for over 25 years — this is the analysis layer I wished I'd had.

Watch it work

One module per problem

Fan Li works in modules — each one takes a part of the business you're running on gut feel and puts a working analysis behind it. The Inventory Planner is live today; the rest land as they're recorded.

Inventory Planner

Watch: a day's stock data turned into what to protect, what to reorder, and what it's worth. Or try it yourself — hands-on, sample data →

Collections

Coming soon

Who owes what, how overdue, and which calls to make this week — not just an ageing printout.

Sales

Coming soon

What's really selling, what's quietly dying, and which customers are drifting away before the revenue line shows it.

Commission

Coming soon

Calculated from actual sales, checked against the rules, ready for payroll — no month-end spreadsheet marathon.

Margin

Coming soon

Where the profit actually comes from — by product, customer and channel — and why it moved.

Drowning in reports that don't tell you anything? Let's talk.

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