Every operations owner has a software story. The platform that took six months to "implement." The tool the team quietly routed around within a quarter. The licence still being paid for a system nobody opens. Automation has a credibility problem, and it earned it: too much of it is sold on faith — a big scope, a long timeline, and results described confidently by people who have never seen your data. The Wynura proof of concept is designed as the opposite of that purchase. Fourteen days, your data, your modules, measured results — then the decision, in that order.
Why automation bought on faith fails
Three failure modes account for most of the wreckage. The first is scope before evidence: the contract covers every department and every workflow before anyone has watched a single real order move through the system, so the project is sized by imagination. The second is the demo-data gap: software that performs beautifully on the vendor's sample catalogue stumbles on your part numbers, your suppliers' habits, your brokers' document quirks — the specifics that are the entire job. The third is the unmeasured middle: months pass, work is "in progress," and when the invoice for phase two arrives there is no baseline to compare against, so continuation is argued from sunk cost instead of results.
A proof of concept only earns its name if it attacks all three. Most "pilots" in this industry attack none: they are demos with a calendar attached.
The fourteen days, honestly described
The Wynura POC starts with a scoping conversation and a data checklist. You tell us where the week disappears — the intake asks for it in plain words — and which modules to run: any selection from the twelve across the Operations Stack (Product, Market & Customer Analysis; Purchase Order Chase & Tracking; Invoice Checking & 3-Way Match; Stock Alerts & Reorder; Quotes & Follow-Up; "Where Is My Order?" Answers) and the Lender Edition (Product, Market & Borrower Analysis; Broker & Borrower Targeting; Application Intake & Document Chase; Deal Packaging for Underwriting; Maturity & Renewal Watch; Borrower & Broker Status Answers).
Then the stack runs — on your live orders, your live invoices, your live stock, or your live deal files. Not a copy of them in a sandbox with the hard parts removed: the real flow, including the supplier who never replies, the invoice with the price variance, the file missing two documents. Integrations are part of the scope, not an afterthought: the stack connects to the accounting, inventory and email systems you already run, and to your CRM where you require it — that integration is arranged during the POC and deployment. If you run no CRM, the stack works standalone on its own shared record; nothing about the proof depends on buying anything else.
Throughout the fourteen days, every action the stack takes is in the audit log: every chase email, every match and variance it stopped, every answer it gave. You are not asked to trust that it worked. You are shown the record of it working.
What gets measured
The POC is judged on the numbers your operation already feels. Hours spent chasing suppliers, before and during. Invoices matched clean, variances caught, and what they were worth. Documents collected per file and days-to-complete-file for lenders. Order-status questions answered without a human touching them. Quotes followed up that would previously have died in an inbox. The baseline comes from your own operation — the calculator on this site, which runs published benchmarks (hand-processing an invoice at $10–22 against $0.50–$1.00 automated), gives the reference shape; the POC replaces the benchmark with your actuals. Its published example — 300 invoices a month and six chase-hours a week — computes to $32,400–$77,400 a year and 312 hours; treat it as the shape of the question, and the POC as the answer for your numbers specifically.
The decision the POC is built to produce
On day fourteen there are three honest outcomes. The stack moved the numbers and the economics argue for themselves: continue, with the measured scope. The stack moved some numbers and not others: continue with a narrower scope, priced on what proved out. Or the stack did not move the numbers: stop, with the evidence in hand and two weeks spent finding out instead of two quarters. All three are successes of the method, because all three are decisions on evidence. What the POC removes is the fourth outcome — the one the industry runs on — where nobody ever quite knows whether it worked, and the licence renews anyway.
Security during the proof
A POC runs on real data, so it runs under the same controls as the full deployment: encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access with least privilege, a full audit log, Canada or US data residency, and a human approving every money point. Your data is never sold, never shared, and never used to train models for anyone else — during the fourteen days or after them. Export or delete everything at any time; leaving takes your data with you, intact.
Starting one
The intake takes a few minutes: your business type, your team size, where the week disappears, your volumes, and the modules you want proven. The reply comes from info@wynura.com with the scoping call and the data checklist for day one of the fourteen. Fourteen days after that, the argument is over — one way or the other, on evidence.