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How far your input costs have moved since you last set prices.
Wired to live BLS producer price data. See how far steel has moved since you built your price file, and what that is worth against your revenue.
Live producer price data · BLS WPU1017
Steel is up 17%% in twelve months.
When did you last rebuild your price file?
That last one is the figure we would check first on a call. It is the difference between a rounding error and a real number, and it is the one nobody has to hand.
a year you are not charging for
Steel is +15% since you built that file, which is +4.5% on your cost once weighted. If your prices have not moved with it, that is the gap.
Steel mill products, BLS series WPU1017, pulled August 2026, latest reading 2026-06. Your revenue and your cost share — we only multiply. Public data ages; re-pull before relying on it.
What this is telling you
A price file is a snapshot of what things cost on the day you built it. Your inputs kept moving. The gap between those two is not a pricing strategy — it is drift, and it comes straight off the bottom line.
The steel figure here is real, pulled from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and cited by series ID. Your revenue and your cost share are yours; the page only multiplies.
How to get the real number
Identify your top three inputs by spend, match a public index to each, and log a reading a month with the date you pulled it. Ten minutes a month, and in two years you have a private record of your own input costs against public reality that no competitor of yours has.
This is step 11 on the roadmap →Everything here is arithmetic on the numbers you typed. No request is made, nothing is stored, and there is no email gate — which is the whole reason anyone moves the sliders honestly.
Data with integrity makes the best decisions
Bring that number to a call.
Twenty minutes, no obligation. If it turns out not to be your problem I will tell you that too.