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 →
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