Journal

Notes from ledgers, docks, and contract registers

Written for buying leads and finance partners. Not essays about “transformation”.

11 March 2026

Reading a purchase-ledger extract without drowning

A practical order of columns, aliases, and intercompany lines so the first map is honest rather than decorative.

27 January 2026

Closed sites, inherited cost centres, and contractors who remain on standing orders after the tender winner has already started.

3 November 2025

OTIF from the dock, rejects with photographs, invoice queries from AP — and the honesty to leave a cell blank.

17 September 2025

Volume that is still a wish, sites that raise their own orders, and the one extract both of you should sign off before interviews start.