Deepak Patil · Sales
Deepak wrote this. Everything below is what Corto can show about where it came from and whether it holds up — including what it cannot stand behind.
Where it came from
A goal Corto proposed has a reason it exists. This is that reason, with the record behind it.
The finding
The largest customer is a third of the business, not a fifth
- What was seen
- Party-wise billing puts the largest customer at 31% of revenue and the top four at 68%. Asked cold on two occasions two days apart, the founder put the largest at 20–22% both times.
- What it means
- The share he prices against, staffs against and accepts a frozen rate against is nine points below the share in his own ledgers. Anchor volume has risen while anchor rates have not, so the same customers are buying more work for the same money.
- What to do
- Put the top four on one page with the date each rate was last moved, and open a rate conversation with one of them this quarter.
It serves Less of the company depends on any one customer's decision., a company goal.
What Corto read
2Every record under every number in this goal — where it came from, how it was read, and when it was true.
Tally - party-wise sales ledgers, via the read-only agent
from a filed or system recordUsed for: Top four share of billing: 68% down to 60%
- The record
- Party-wise billing FY26 YTD
- How read
- read-only export from the customer's own accounting system, with their consent
- True as of
- last sync 25 Aug 2026 19:40 · refreshed daily
The founder, in his interview
the company's own figure, not a recordUsed for: the finding: The largest customer is a third of the business, not a fifth
- The record
- Interview sittings 19 Aug 2026 - 22 Aug 2026
- How read
- stated by the founder and recorded verbatim; not corroborated at the time of capture
- True as of
- 22 Aug 2026 · refreshed on re-interview
Why these key results are enough
If every one of them lands, is the goal true? If the answer is no, the goal is measuring the wrong things.
The share is the goal. If it reaches 60% without losing an account, the thing he asked for has happened.
Is it a good goal
5 of 5SMART, checked against the goal itself. Where Corto asks more than SMART does, it says so — it is not a badge, it is what was actually tested.
- S
Specific
holdsThe goal names a change, and leaves every number to its key results.
SMART asks a goal to be specific. Corto asks it to be specific WITHOUT a number in it, so the target can move without rewriting what the company is trying to do.
- M
Measurable
holdsAll 1 key results carry a start value, a target, a unit and the record they are read from.
SMART asks for a number. Corto asks WHERE THE NUMBER COMES FROM — the actual record — because a target nobody can read is not measurable, it is only numeric.
- A
Achievable
holds2 initiatives are under it, and every key result reads from a record that exists.
Corto does not judge whether an ambition is realistic — that is the founder's to set. It checks the two things it can see: that somebody is working on it, and that the number can actually be read.
- R
Relevant
holdsIt serves “Less of the company depends on any one customer's decision.”, which is a company goal.
SMART asks whether a goal matters. Corto asks WHAT IT SERVES, by name, all the way up to one of the three destinations — so relevance is a chain you can follow rather than an opinion.
- T
Time-bound
holdsIt runs to FY 2026-27, and nothing is scored before that period begins.
What Corto cannot stand behind
3Read this before you argue with anybody using the rest of the page. A case that states no limit is a sales sheet.
What Tally - party-wise sales ledgers, via the read-only agent cannot tell you
margin by customer, which needs item-level costtonnage or quantityanything outside the sync windowperiods before the ledger was opened
The founder, in his interview — the company's own figure, not a record
This is the company's own figure, not a filed or system record. Anything resting on it inherits that.
What The founder, in his interview cannot tell you
a filed or recorded valuea company-wide factanything he did not personally seea figure, unless a record independently carries it
Assembled from records that already existed — the diagnosis, the interview, the derivation registry and the goal itself. Nothing on this page is written about the goal after the fact. The line to the destination