Budget Benchmarking Built Around Real Business Needs
Since 2019, we've been helping Taiwanese businesses understand where their money actually goes. Not through flashy presentations or complicated software, but through straightforward comparisons that make sense when you're trying to figure out if your spending is on track.
How We Started Doing This
Back in 2019, a manufacturing client asked us something simple: "Are we spending too much on logistics?" Turns out, answering that question wasn't simple at all. Industry averages didn't match their reality. Generic benchmarks ignored local factors. And most comparison tools were designed for enterprises with budgets ten times their size.
So we built something different. We started collecting real spending data from similar-sized businesses in Taiwan, anonymizing it properly, and creating comparisons that actually helped people make decisions. Not perfect decisions, but informed ones.
The work grew from there. Manufacturing led to retail. Retail led to services. Now we work with about 180 businesses across different sectors, and the data keeps getting more useful as the pool grows.
What Makes Our Approach Different
We focus on three things that matter when you're comparing your budget to others in your industry
Local Market Context
Taiwan's business environment has specific factors that affect spending patterns. Supply chain relationships here work differently than elsewhere. Labor markets have their own dynamics. We account for that instead of giving you benchmarks from Singapore or Shanghai and pretending they apply.
Size-Appropriate Comparisons
A business with 15 employees doesn't spend like one with 150. Sounds obvious, but you'd be surprised how many benchmarking tools ignore it. We segment by actual operational scale, not just revenue brackets. Your comparisons come from businesses that face similar constraints and opportunities.
Current Data That Reflects Reality
We update our comparison pools quarterly. When energy costs jumped in late 2024, that showed up in our benchmarks within weeks. When a new regulation changes how businesses handle something, we track how spending adjusts. Stale data tells you where things were, not where they are.
Who Does This Work
We're a small team. Two people handle most of the direct client work, with support from data analysts and sector specialists who contribute as needed. That structure works for what we do because budget benchmarking relies more on understanding business context than running enormous operations.
Taavi Seppälä
Financial Analysis Lead
Spent twelve years in corporate finance before realizing that helping smaller businesses make sense of their numbers was more interesting than creating quarterly reports for executives who barely read them. Handles most of the direct client relationships and builds custom comparison frameworks when standard categories don't quite fit.
Eoghan Beckett
Data Systems Manager
Keeps our comparison database running and makes sure we're protecting client information properly. Background in statistical analysis, which helps when someone asks whether a spending difference is actually significant or just noise in the data. Also handles the technical side when we need to segment data in new ways.
Our Commitment to Practical Service
We're not trying to revolutionize finance or disrupt anything. We help businesses answer specific questions about whether their spending aligns with similar operations. Sometimes the answer is reassuring. Sometimes it points to areas worth examining. Either way, you get clarity that's hard to find when you're looking at your budget in isolation.
If that sounds useful for your situation, we're happy to discuss how our benchmarking data might help. No pressure, no sales pitches, just a conversation about whether what we do matches what you need.
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