The supplier filed. Her clients knew by nine.
Lea is an independent restructuring adviser in Berlin. She helps family manufacturers when a supplier gets into trouble. When a key supplier files for insolvency, her clients have days to find another. The court notices are public, but nobody reads them every day. Last year a client heard three weeks late, and a production line stood still. With xMap Flows, Lea built Lens. Every morning at seven, Lens reads Berlin’s insolvency news for new filings, keeps the ones that supply her clients, writes what each filing means for the client, emails the client from Lea’s inbox, and books a call with them the same day. On Tuesday, Lens spots that a gear maker in Spandau has filed. It supplies two of Lea’s clients. Both hear from her before nine, and by Friday each has a second supplier lined up. Neither line stops for a day. Lea can’t stop a supplier failing. She makes sure her clients hear it first.
Scenarios and figures in the films are modelled to show what a flow produces. None describes a named customer.