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How every CLA is built.

No black box. No shortcuts. The same four-step pipeline runs for every brand, every market, every snapshot. Same as the one we run for our own operation.

01

Collect

Direct sources only. Brand websites, ezCater portals, public reviews, U.S. Census, BLS wage data, commercial real-estate listings, retail SKU MSRPs. No 3PD markup. No estimates.

  • No DoorDash / UberEats / GrubHub pricing — markup distorts data
  • Direct portal → order-now → aggregator escalation only when the direct site is unreachable
  • Live screenshots + URL stamps on every pull
02

Verify ×3

Every price, every figure passes three independent verification checks before it earns a place in the report. We cross-reference time-stamped sources from different days.

  • Source A: brand website current menu
  • Source B: ezCater / aggregator listing (where available)
  • Source C: phone confirmation or franchise system audit
03

Cite

Every data point carries a citable URL and verification timestamp. Audit-ready, defendable in a franchise board meeting, traceable two snapshots back.

  • SOURCE chip on every comp item
  • Verification date stamped at the row level
  • No "industry average" filler — we surface the gap honestly
04

Ship

Delivered as a structured HTML report + downloadable workbook + executive one-pager. Twice a year, on schedule, no extensions. 14 days from signed order to inbox.

  • HTML dashboard — interactive, scrollable, sharable
  • Excel workbook — every cell traceable, every formula visible
  • One-page executive summary — for the board, the bank, or the franchisor
The promise

If we can't cite it, we don't ship it.

Every number in every CLA traces back to a URL we pulled in the same session. Three sources. One timestamp. Zero "industry averages." That's the entire commitment.

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