The new vadaralpha.com is live. We rebuilt it to explain what Vadar Alpha does, who it is for and how we measure results. Each decision we help with now has its own page, so you can go straight to the one you care about.
One platform for four decisions
Vadar Alpha is a commercial intelligence platform for industrial margins. It connects to the systems you already run, prices what to buy, make, sell and hedge against the live market, and tells each owner what to do. The Platform page shows how it fits together. Each decision has a page of its own:
- Buy: when to buy each input, how much, from which supplier and on what contract. We measure it as purchase price variance.
- Make: what to make, with which inputs and on which line. We measure it as cost per unit.
- Sell: a target price for each product and customer, including cost pass-through. We measure it as net price realization.
- Risk: your daily exposure across buying, making and selling, with hedges sized to match. We measure it as earnings at risk.
Each page describes the problem, charts a year of decisions and explains how we connect to your existing data.
Measured in your numbers
Your teams keep the metrics they report today. How we measure explains how we link those metrics to margin and margin to earnings, against a baseline your finance team signs off on. We expect to prove the value in your numbers before you commit to anything more.
Built for the industries we serve
Our customers buy large volumes of commodity inputs at volatile prices, work on thin margins and often struggle to pass costs on. Who we serve has more on the fit, and there is a page for each industry:
Customers, white papers and the blog
Customers reports actual results from our engagements. Each engagement runs in five stages, and we show all of them. Our white papers cover US dairy pricing and fleet profitability in more depth. The blog is now sorted by platform, topic and sector, so it is easier to follow subjects like volatility or pricing.
Good posts to read first
If you are new to Vadar Alpha, start with these:
- Wield Volatility: an option trade from 600 BC and what it means for your business today.
- Someone Has to Run the Lemonade Stand: why Buy, Sell and Risk belong on one income statement.
- It's Never Just Lemons: what happens when the cost of a cup and its price both keep moving.
- 2025 Annual Community Note: a look back at our year building Commercial Intelligence.
How to start
We start with one decision, the one with the most margin at stake. Using your data, we show what it is worth within days, and we integrate only after that. Work with us has the details. You can also read about our team or see our open roles.
Most companies begin with a 14 day proof. We use your past records, so there is no IT work and no access to your systems, and we size the gap in your own book. The analysis is yours to keep whether you buy or not. Start the proof, or book a call if you would rather talk first. A call takes 30 minutes.
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