# Cord Use Cases

Cord supports capital and resource allocation decisions across finance, operations, strategy, and corporate development.

## True Unit Economics

Cord helps teams see margin, cost, and return by customer, product, project, asset, unit, location, service line, segment, or market. Every slice is traceable to source.

## Growth Planning

Cord pressure-tests where growth can come from, what it will cost, and how work should be sequenced before resources are committed. Example workflows include TAM analysis, roadmap sequencing, buy-vs-build analysis, segment benchmarks, and capacity planning.

## Operating Efficiency

Cord helps teams rank savings, trade-offs, and payback with the same rigor they apply to growth planning. Example workflows include AI ROI estimation, right-sizing decisions, vendor reviews, cost reductions, and variance reviews.

## Semantic Layer For Agents

Cord turns raw finance, commercial, and operational data into a shared analytical brain that agents can reason across. It supports data cleaning, relationship graphs, document extraction, and cross-system analysis.

## M&A

Cord supports sell-side advisory, buy-side diligence, target identification, process management, operating model construction, synergy modeling, market research, and board-ready deal analysis.

## Capital Raise Planning

Cord helps teams model sources and uses, deployment plans, valuation scenarios, operating milestones, and investor reporting.

## Strategic Finance Workflows

Cord converts recurring finance work into agentic workflows. Examples include scheduled reports, SOP conversion, always-on analytics, source-linked dashboards, and repeatable planning cycles.

## Common Allocation Questions

- Which customers, products, projects, or units generate the best true economics?
- Which initiatives deserve the next dollar or next hire?
- Which markets, channels, or products should be scaled?
- Which vendors, costs, or workflows should be reduced?
- Which capacity constraints limit growth?
- Which M&A assumptions can survive diligence?
- Which board claims can be traced back to source records?