Businesslog captures every KPI, financial entry, and margin calculation across your entire fleet. Not a spreadsheet. Not a dashboard. A living record — queryable, composable, filed to PLATO.
Core Capabilities
Every business line generates data. Most of it disappears into disconnected spreadsheets. Businesslog treats each metric as a first-class citizen — timestamped, categorized, and filed where it can be found.
Define key performance indicators across every business line — catch rates, fuel efficiency, crew utilization, port fees per call. Each KPI streams data in real time from vessel reports, manual entries, or automated integrations. Set thresholds and receive alerts when a metric drifts outside expected ranges. Every KPI is queryable across any time window, with full historical depth from the day you started tracking.
Log every financial event — fish sales, ice purchases, engine repairs, ice, fuel deliveries, crew shares, port charges. Businesslog records the delta, not just the balance: the specific revenue event, the exact expense line, the net margin contribution of that transaction. This granularity means you can trace any number back to its origin. Compare this season's fuel costs against the last three years. Break down operating expenses by vessel, by week, by species. The books aren't just balanced — they're navigable.
Gross margin per trip. Net margin per vessel. Contribution margin by species. Businesslog calculates margins automatically as financial data flows in — no manual spreadsheets, no end-of-season reconciliation surprises. Run scenario analysis on the fly: what happens to per-trip margins if fuel rises 8%? What species mix gives the best return on ice investment? Margin analysis surfaces the levers that move the needle, not just the numbers that recorded what already happened.
Aggregated business intelligence across all vessels, all seasons, all business lines. Query the entire fleet's performance history in natural language: "Show me all trips where fuel costs exceeded 22% of revenue." "Which vessels achieved positive margins in Q3 last year?" Business decisions filed to PLATO become queryable — the knowledge from every trip, every market fluctuation, every crew decision accumulates into a fleet brain that makes future decisions smarter.
Every metric logged in Businesslog is not just stored — it's reasoned about. Financial events, KPI thresholds crossed, margin shifts: these get filed to PLATO's knowledge graph as structured, linkable facts.
This means your fleet's accumulated business intelligence isn't locked in a database you have to query manually. It's organized by meaning. You can ask questions you didn't plan to ask — and get answers that draw from every trip across every vessel.
Delta Recording
Most business software records balances. Businesslog records events. A balance tells you where you are. A delta tells you how you got there — and what to do next.
When a vessel lands a catch, Businesslog logs the revenue delta against that trip. When fuel prices shift, the delta is recorded against the next reporting period. Each entry carries forward a full audit trail: amount, source vessel, date, business line, and the resulting margin impact.