From the journals · told first on TikTok, written up here
How to Save a
Billion Bucks
Thirty-five years of transformation programmes, one habit: walk in, look at the numbers, set the goal the room says never happens, and stake the bonus on it. These are the true stories of where the billions actually came from.
Story One · MiningThe Ninety-Centimetre Mine
We were drilling a metre, blasting a metre, and supporting a metre of roof to recover a seam a fraction of that size. Then someone asked whether the process itself was right. On paper it was a few centimetres. In practice it touched everything.
Read the story →The visual one-pager: Ten Centimetres and a Billion Bucks →
Coming next
The second billion lived in a very different place. Same habit, same question, a different industry's version of the metre that didn't need to be a metre.
Why these stories are here. Savings are designed, not negotiated, that's the discipline behind everything on this site. The same eye that found ninety centimetres now draws the Augmentation Line™: where AI acts in a process, and where a named human signs. Bring your process to a 45-minute session →
STORYC LTD (company no. 17293375), trading as AI-Augmented Consulting™ (UK TM application UK00004409146). Stories from the professional journals of Madeleine Joubert; client organisations deliberately unnamed. Privacy · storycltd.co.uk