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The thirty seconds of context that drive the rest of your day.

Most operators run trade with 38 active orders, four portals, six inboxes, and a feeling that something somewhere is on fire. TradeOS computes what actually deserves attention — what shipped, what's blocked, what's compressing margin, what needs your sign-off — and surfaces it in a single cockpit view. Built for the operator, the manager, and the CEO each looking at the same data through a different lens.

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Meridian Co.·Tuesday, May 5, 2026·09:14

Active orders

38

▲ ▲ +2 vs last week

In-flight

$4.2M

▲ ▲ +18% vs last qtr

Blended margin

21.0%

▼ ▼ −0.4pp vs target

On-time rate

92%

▲ ▲ +3pp vs last qtr

At risk

3

needs attention

Cash outstanding

$1.85M

47 days avg

What needs you today5

RD-2026-077 cancellation review

Sapphire delay · $2,400 demurrage risk

Open →

2 manager approvals pending

RD-2026-091 ($340K) · RD-2026-094 ($580K)

Review →

Athena Group quote needs margin sign-off

$1.25M · projected 19.8% margin · −2.7pp

Review →

Sapphire EUR.1 still outstanding

Requested 3 days ago · auto-reminder sent

Nudge →

CE certificate Crescent expiring

47 days · Protect-M Nitrile

Renew →

What moved yesterdayMay 4

RD-2026-068 delivered

Vela Exports · 23.4% margin (above target)

16:32

RD-2026-074 shipped

Northwind & Co. · COSCO BL-22-104590

14:08

RD-2026-077 → In Production

Crescent lot PL-2026-0138 started

10:30

4 documents auto-collected

Bills of Lading · Insurance Certs

09:45

INV-2026-009 paid

SafeHands UK · $168,000

08:22

What's compressing margin this week

Three margin events this week, two of them upstream signals you haven't priced in yet.

COSCO BAF +4% trans-Pacific−0.3pp blendedAffects 6 in-flight orders

Sapphire 4-day delay (PL-2026-0142)−0.6pp on RD-077Demurrage forecast triggered

EUR/USD softening (1.094 → 1.088)−0.1pp blendedHits euro-denominated costs

View margin trail across portfolio →

THE PROBLEM

The operator sees everything. The manager sees the wrong things. The CEO sees nothing.

Trade operators run on a default view that drowns them in detail — every order, every line, every event. Managers see a dashboard built for accounting, with numbers that finalize at month-end. CEOs check email. None of these views is wrong; all of them are mis-tuned. The operator wants exception triage. The manager wants approval velocity and team load. The CEO wants the exception list, the cash position, and the deals about to close. Same data, three altitudes — most platforms render only one.

THREE VIEWS, ONE SOURCE OF TRUTH

One dataset. Three altitudes. Switch in a click.

EDMA's briefing surface adapts to who's looking. The same orders, manufacturers, lots, shipments, and invoices feed three role-tuned views — operator (exception triage), manager (team velocity and approvals), CEO (portfolio health, cash, and what's about to close). Switch with a single pill. No duplicate dashboards, no separate reporting layer, no exports to maintain.

OPERATOR· Liam Okafor

Triage what's blocked, what's in motion, what advances today

My open tasks

14

Orders advancing today

3

QC inspections this week

6

Documents to action

4

Filtered to Liam's portfolio · cross-sectional event feed prioritizes blockers

MANAGER· Sarah Chen

Approve, escalate, balance team load

Approvals pending

3

Team capacity

78%

Avg cycle time

78d

Margin variance vs. quote

−0.4pp

Filtered to Sarah's team of 6 · approvals queue prioritizes by value and waiting time

CEO· Vio Predoiu

Portfolio health, cash, and the deals about to close

Total in-flight

$4.2M

Blended margin

21.0%

Cash outstanding

$1.85M

Deals closing this month

$3.2M

Portfolio-wide · highlights margin trend, exception list, near-close pipeline

THE EXCEPTION LIST

Not a feed. An inbox of things you need to decide.

The exception list is not a chronological event stream — those exist elsewhere in the platform. It's a curated, ranked list of items that need an actual decision today, scored by value at risk, time-sensitivity, and how many downstream things are blocked by inaction. Items move off the list when the decision is made or when the platform resolves them automatically. The list never grows past 10; if there are more than 10 exceptions, the platform tells you so and ranks the top 10.

Exception list · 7 of 7 visible · ranked by value at risk × time-sensitivity

AllCancellationsApprovalsComplianceMargin

01

RD-2026-077 cancellation review

Sapphire delay → $2,400 demurrage risk; Crescent on track at 62% complete

$560,000waiting 1d

02

Athena Group quote · margin below threshold

Projected 19.8% vs. 22.5% target; −2.7pp variance from freight surcharge

$1,250,000waiting 3d

03

RD-2026-091 manager approval

Triggered: order value > $250K threshold; new manufacturer Lotus Rubber

$340,000waiting 1d

04

RD-2026-094 manager approval

Triggered: order value > $250K threshold; rush priority flagged

$580,000waiting 8h

05

Sapphire EUR.1 outstanding

Blocks customs clearance; auto-reminder sent yesterday

$0 hard cost3d

06

CE certificate Crescent · expires Jul 18

Affects Protect-M Nitrile; 12 in-flight orders depend on this certificate

$0 hard cost47d

07

6 in-flight orders affected by COSCO BAF

Carrier rate update +4%; pricing engine has updated next quote floor

$14,400 forecast1d

Items resolved or actioned drop off the list. The platform re-ranks every time a value or status changes.

THE SHAPE OF THE DAY

One sparkline per KPI. Three months at a glance.

A KPI by itself is a snapshot. A KPI with a sparkline is a story. EDMA renders every portfolio KPI with a 90-day sparkline below the number — so the operator sees not just "21.0% margin" but "21.0% margin, drifting down for three weeks." The shape matters more than the snapshot.

Portfolio KPIs · last 90 days

Per KPI ▾

ACTIVE ORDERS

38

▲ +6 over 90d · steady

BLENDED MARGIN

21.0%

▼ −0.4pp over 90d · drifting

ON-TIME RATE

92%

▲ +3pp over 90d · improving

AVG CYCLE TIME

78d

▼ −4d over 90d · improving

CASH OUTSTANDING

$1.85M

▼ −$120K over 30d · improving

AT RISK ORDERS

3

● 1 cleared this week · 2 pending

THE PORTFOLIO MAP

Where every order is, on one screen.

For operators with dozens of orders in motion, the cockpit needs a spatial map — not a list. EDMA renders the whole portfolio as a grid: rows are clients, columns are lifecycle stages, cells are orders. A single tile per order, color-coded by health, hover for the deal — and the eye finds blocked orders, slow lanes, and concentration risk in seconds. The list view answers "what is this order"; the map answers "what shape is the business in."

Portfolio map · 38 orders · 8 clients · 7 lifecycle stages

On trackWatchAt riskQuote

Client

Quoted

Confirmed

In Production

QC

Shipped

In Customs

Delivered

Brevin Health EUFrankfurt

Northwind & Co.Manchester

Vela ExportsAntwerp

SafeHands UKFelixstowe

Crescent PharmaRotterdam

Athena GroupAthens

Sapphire CareHamburg

Lotus Rubber Ltd.Marseille

Click any tile to open the order. Drag a client row to reorder. The map updates the moment a stage transition fires — concentrations, gaps, and gluts become visible without running a query.

VS. THE TOOLS YOU MIGHT BE USING

Built for operators, managers, and CEOs — on the same data.

Capability	Generic BI dashboard	Spreadsheet rollups	ERP cockpit	TradeOS
Role-tuned views (operator / manager / CEO)	—	manual	partial	✓
Ranked exception list (decisions, not events)	—	—	—	✓
Live margin per order, in-cockpit	—	manual	partial	✓
90-day sparkline behind every KPI	✓	—	partial	✓
Portfolio map (clients × lifecycle stages)	—	—	—	✓
Refreshes the moment an event fires	batch	—	partial	✓
Same source of truth as Orders, Shipments, Finance	imports	manual	✓	✓

Dashboards aggregate after the fact. Spreadsheets capture a moment. Cockpits are reports, not workspaces. EDMA's briefing surface is wired into the same data your operators are already using — so what the CEO sees and what the operator does are the same record, viewed at different altitudes.

FREQUENTLY ASKED

Five questions about operational briefings.

Who decides what makes the exception list?

The platform does, against a tenant-tunable scoring rubric. Each candidate exception has a value at risk (in dollars), a time-sensitivity (in hours waiting), and a downstream-blocking score (how many things stall if no action is taken). Tenants can weight these dimensions and set hard rules — e.g., "always surface customs holds," "always surface margin variance > 2pp." The list never grows past 10; the platform tells you when it's truncated and why.

How do role views differ if everyone shares one record?

Does the cockpit replace our team meetings?

How fresh is the data?

Can the briefing be embedded or sent as a digest?

Run trade from one cockpit, not four portals.

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