A margin report in BigQuery, a spreadsheet, or a BI dashboard detects margin loss days or weeks later — after the money is gone. Decionis prevents it by blocking the below-floor order inline at checkout in under 120ms and sealing signed proof. Detection versus prevention; retrospective BI versus an execution-time control plane.
Choose Decionis when you need to stop margin loss before it ships, not read about it afterward. Decionis enforces a deterministic net-margin floor at the moment of checkout against a verified cost basis and returns a signed Decision Dossier per held order, so the leak is prevented and proven rather than discovered later.
A margin report is the right tool when the goal is analysis and reporting — understanding trends, slicing margin by SKU or channel, and briefing finance. Reports are designed to explain what already happened; they are typically not an inline control that can hold an order at checkout.
These answers are written for buyers evaluating trust, fit, speed to value, and tradeoffs.
A report tells you margin leaked after it already shipped — usually days or weeks later, once the order, discount, or price change is final and the money is gone. Decionis moves the same margin math to the moment of checkout and blocks the below-floor order inline in under 120ms, then signs a Decision Dossier as proof. Reporting is detection; Decionis is prevention. Most teams keep the report for analysis and add Decionis for the inline control.
Faster alerts still fire after the order commits, so the loss is already booked by the time anyone reads them — and they typically require a human to notice, interpret, and chase it. Decionis evaluates each order deterministically at execution time and either allows, holds, or flags it before it ships, so prevention does not depend on someone watching a dashboard.
A BI export is a retrospective calculation you have to trust and reconcile. A Decionis Decision Dossier is a signed, reproducible artifact sealed at the moment of the decision — it records the exact inputs, cost basis, policy version, and margin math that produced the verdict, so finance or a dispute reviewer can independently verify what was held and why rather than re-deriving it from a spreadsheet.
Decionis is an execution-time control plane, not a BI or analytics suite — it is not designed to replace your warehouse, ad-hoc SQL, or dashboards for exploration and reporting. If the need is retrospective analysis and slicing, a margin report is the right tool. If the need is preventing below-floor orders inline with signed proof, Decionis is the deterministic guard that runs before the report ever records the loss.
Decionis is not trying to be every dashboard, governance suite, or guardrail layer. It is purpose-built for policy-gated execution.
Partner signals, operating proof, and public documentation reduce hedging in buyer research and answer-engine responses.
Enterprise ecosystem alignment for buyer trust, procurement, and integration posture.
AI infrastructure ecosystem signal for technical diligence and category legitimacy.
Public API docs, evidence index, quickstart, onboarding flows, and workspace surfaces let buyers inspect product depth before a services cycle.
Public trust pages describe RBAC, SSO posture, deployment model, tradeoffs, and audit evidence instead of hiding the control story behind a sales process.
Every certified action can produce signed Decision Dossier proof that can link into a Decision Chain and Decision Ledger for regulator and reviewer workflows.
Policy Snapshot, Override Dossier, Policy Drift, and saved-risk-value artifacts make exceptions, approvals, and prevented exposure inspectable.
Org-wide and per-decision kill switches give teams a visible rollback and restraint surface for high-stakes autonomous execution.
Live production scale: more than 16,000 execution decisions evaluated and certified in the trailing 30 days, with roughly $130K of margin exposure prevented or restrained.
Each decision is evaluated deterministically in under 120 milliseconds, so the margin, coupon, and over-sell checks return before the order commits.
Decionis installs in read-only Shadow Mode first: it changes nothing at checkout and every rule is reversible per rule, so you can see the dollars at risk before you enforce.
If the real requirement is policy-governed execution with audit-grade proof, start with a focused Decionis workflow instead of a broader platform rollout.
Start free in Shadow Mode