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How to build cohort-framed benchmark reports at multi-location scale

This guide explains how to architect the cohort-framed-benchmark-reports skill on the benchmarking-agent end-to-end at multi-location franchise + multi-store scale: per-portfolio per-location per-canonical-per-location-peer-cohort-construction + per-canonical-per-location-vs-peer-cohort-benchmark + per-canonical-per-location-outlier-flagging + per-canonical-per-location-root-cause-handoff + per-canonical-per-location-seasonality-adjustment + per-canonical-per-location-benchmark-report-LLM-narrative + per-canonical-per-franchisee-RLS-isolation + per-canonical-per-location-benchmark-report-export + per-canonical-per-location-benchmark-report-version-control + per-portfolio audit-trail.

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What you will build

Per-portfolio per-canonical-per-location-peer-cohort-construction — per-vintage-cohort (grand-opening quarter + year) + per-revenue-tier-cohort (AUV tier) + per-store-size-cohort (sqft) + per-market-density-cohort (urban + suburban + rural) + per-vertical-cohort (QSR + fitness + beauty) + per-region-cohort + per-DMA-cohort + per-grand-opening-month-cohort + per-acquisition-source-cohort + per-cluster algorithm (K-means + Hierarchical Agglomerative + DBSCAN + Gaussian Mixture Model + LLM-augmented cluster naming) + per-silhouette-score optimal cluster count + per-Davies-Bouldin index + per-cohort membership validation (min-size 5 + max-size 50 + homogeneity score) + per-cohort membership revision tracking.
Per-canonical-per-location-vs-peer-cohort-benchmark — per-KPI percentile rank in cohort + per-z-score vs cohort median + per-IQR position + per-cohort coefficient of variation + per-cohort rank stability trend.
Per-canonical-per-location-outlier-flagging — per-2-sigma + per-3-sigma + per-Mann-Kendall trend test + per-CUSUM control chart + per-EWMA control chart + per-severity tiering (Tier-1 Critical bottom 5% + Tier-2 High bottom 10% + Tier-3 Medium bottom 25% + Tier-4 Low watchlist).
Per-canonical-per-location-root-cause-handoff — per-root-cause LLM classification (staffing + pricing + product quality + CS experience + local market shock + competitor opening + marketing spend reduction + seasonality mismatch + NAP drift + GBP suspension + supply chain) + per-handoff to diagnostic agent + per-stakeholder routing (Operations VP + Regional Manager + District Manager + Franchise Business Consultant).
Per-canonical-per-location-seasonality-adjustment — per-STL (Seasonal Trend decomposition using Loess) + per-X-13 ARIMA SEATS + per-Holt-Winters exponential smoothing + per-Prophet + per-seasonality-vs-cohort-seasonality deviation.
Per-canonical-per-location-benchmark-report-LLM-narrative + per-franchisee-RLS-isolation — per-narrative template spec (executive summary + cohort membership + per-KPI percentile rank + per-KPI outlier flag + per-KPI root-cause hypothesis + per-KPI recommended action + per-FDD Item 19 FPR disclaimer) + per-multi-LLM generation (GPT-4 + Claude Sonnet + Gemini Pro) + per-CFO review loop + per-fact-grounding + per-franchisee sees own + sees cohort anonymized + sees portfolio aggregate anonymized + per-corporate sees all + per-FDC elected representative sees all + per-Postgres/Snowflake/BigQuery/Redshift RLS policy.
Per-canonical-per-location-benchmark-report-export + per-report-version-control — per-PowerPoint via python-pptx + per-Google Slides via Slides API + per-PDF via Puppeteer + per-report template spec + per-version control + per-stakeholder distribution routing + per-CSV + per-SOC2 + per-FDD + per-immutable storage exports.

Why per-vendor-Tableau-Dashboard-single-account breaks at multi-location-cohort-framed-benchmarking scale

Per-vendor-Tableau-canonical-Dashboard ships per-account per-data-source per-view primitive. Per-vendor-Looker + Power BI + Qlik Sense + Domo + Sisense + ThoughtSpot + Mode + Hex + Sigma Computing + Metabase-canonical-single-account ship per-vendor per-native BI primitives.

At 1-location-1-dashboard scale per-account per-data-source per-view primitive is enough. At multi-location-cohort-framed-benchmarking scale per-per-location-peer-cohort-construction-not-national-average + per-per-location-vs-peer-cohort-benchmark-not-portfolio-average + per-per-location-outlier-flagging-2-sigma-3-sigma + per-per-location-root-cause-handoff-to-diagnostic-agent + per-per-location-seasonality-adjustment-STL-X-13-ARIMA + per-per-location-benchmark-report-LLM-narrative-GPT-4-Claude-Gemini + per-per-franchisee-RLS-isolation-Postgres-Snowflake-BigQuery-Redshift + per-per-location-benchmark-report-export-PowerPoint-PDF-Google-Slides + per-per-location-benchmark-report-version-control-PR-style + per-FDD-Item-19-FPR-disclaimer.

Per-cross-vendor-BI-fragmentation + per-national-average-comparison-misleading + per-peer-cohort-construction-blind + per-outlier-flagging-blind + per-root-cause-handoff-blind + per-seasonality-adjustment-blind + per-LLM-narrative-blind + per-franchisee-RLS-blind + per-report-version-control-blind.

The operator-side architecture above per-vendor-BI primitive is canonical-per-location-peer-cohort-construction + per-per-location-vs-peer-cohort-benchmark + per-per-location-outlier-flagging + per-per-location-root-cause-handoff + per-per-location-seasonality-adjustment + per-per-location-benchmark-report-LLM-narrative + per-per-franchisee-RLS-isolation + per-per-location-benchmark-report-export + per-per-location-benchmark-report-version-control + per-portfolio-audit-trail.

What is in market today

Per-platform per-BI-benchmarking-vendor

Tableau, Looker (Google Cloud), Power BI (Microsoft), Qlik Sense, Domo, Sisense, ThoughtSpot, Mode (Klaviyo), Hex, Sigma Computing, Metabase, Cube, AgencyAnalytics, DashThis, DataPine, Klipfolio. Per-account per-data-source per-view. Per-canonical-per-location-peer-cohort-construction-canonical-vs-peer-cohort-benchmark-canonical-outlier-flagging-canonical-root-cause-handoff is not the primitive.

Per-platform per-clustering-platform

scikit-learn (Python), HDBSCAN (Python), DBSCAN (scikit-learn), K-means, Hierarchical Agglomerative, Gaussian Mixture Model, Weaviate (vector DB), Pinecone, Qdrant, Chroma. Per-library per-developer primitive. Per-canonical-per-location-cohort-cluster-canonical-silhouette-score-canonical-Davies-Bouldin-canonical-LLM-augmented-cluster-naming-canonical-cohort-membership-validation is not the primitive.

Per-platform per-anomaly-detection-vendor

Anodot, Anomalo, Datadog Anomaly Detection, Splunk ITSI, Sumo Logic, New Relic, Acceldata, Monte Carlo, Bigeye, Soda, Lightup. Per-account per-metric per-anomaly primitive. Per-canonical-per-location-per-KPI-2-sigma-3-sigma-canonical-Mann-Kendall-canonical-CUSUM-canonical-EWMA-canonical-severity-tiering is not the primitive.

Per-platform per-seasonal-adjustment-vendor

statsmodels STL (Python), X-13 ARIMA SEATS (US Census Bureau), Holt-Winters (statsmodels), Prophet (Facebook/Meta), NeuralProphet, Darts, sktime, pmdarima, GreyKite (LinkedIn), Kats. Per-library per-developer primitive. Per-canonical-per-location-seasonality-vs-cohort-seasonality-deviation-canonical-STL-X-13-ARIMA-canonical-Holt-Winters-canonical-Prophet is not the primitive.

How the architecture is built

Per-portfolio per-canonical-per-location-peer-cohort-dimension-spec. Per-vintage + per-revenue-tier + per-store-size + per-market-density + per-vertical + per-region + per-DMA + per-grand-opening-month + per-acquisition-source canonical-cohort-dimension.
Per-portfolio per-canonical-per-location-cohort-cluster-algorithm. Per-K-means + per-Hierarchical-Agglomerative + per-DBSCAN + per-Gaussian-Mixture + per-LLM-augmented-cluster-naming canonical-cluster.
Per-portfolio per-canonical-per-location-cohort-membership-validation. Per-silhouette + per-Davies-Bouldin + per-min-size-5 + per-max-size-50 + per-homogeneity-score canonical-validation.
Per-portfolio per-canonical-per-location-vs-peer-cohort-benchmark. Per-percentile-rank + per-z-score-vs-cohort-median + per-IQR-position + per-cohort-coefficient-of-variation + per-cohort-rank-stability-trend canonical-benchmark.
Per-portfolio per-canonical-per-location-outlier-flagging. Per-2-sigma + per-3-sigma + per-Mann-Kendall + per-CUSUM + per-EWMA + per-severity-tier-1-4 canonical-outlier.
Per-portfolio per-canonical-per-outlier-root-cause-LLM-classification. Per-staffing + per-pricing + per-product-quality + per-CS-experience + per-local-market-shock + per-competitor-opening + per-marketing-spend-reduction + per-seasonality-mismatch + per-NAP-drift + per-GBP-suspension + per-supply-chain canonical-root-cause.
Per-portfolio per-canonical-per-outlier-handoff-to-diagnostic-agent + per-stakeholder-routing. Per-Operations-VP + per-Regional-Manager + per-District-Manager + per-Franchise-Business-Consultant canonical-routing.
Per-portfolio per-canonical-per-location-seasonality-adjustment. Per-STL + per-X-13-ARIMA-SEATS + per-Holt-Winters + per-Prophet + per-seasonality-vs-cohort-deviation canonical-seasonality.
Per-portfolio per-canonical-per-location-benchmark-narrative-template. Per-executive-summary + per-cohort-membership + per-percentile-rank + per-outlier-flag + per-root-cause + per-recommended-action + per-FDD-Item-19-FPR-disclaimer canonical-narrative-template.
Per-portfolio per-canonical-multi-LLM-benchmark-narrative-generation. Per-GPT-4 + per-Claude-Sonnet + per-Gemini-Pro + per-CFO-review-loop + per-fact-grounding canonical-LLM-narrative.
Per-portfolio per-canonical-per-franchisee-RLS-isolation. Per-franchisee-sees-own-and-cohort-anonymized + per-cohort-aggregate-anonymized + per-portfolio-aggregate-anonymized + per-corporate-sees-all + per-FDC-elected-rep-sees-all + per-Postgres-Snowflake-BigQuery-Redshift-RLS-policy canonical-RLS.
Per-portfolio per-canonical-per-location-benchmark-report-export. Per-PowerPoint-python-pptx + per-Google-Slides + per-PDF-Puppeteer + per-report-template + per-stakeholder-distribution canonical-export.
Per-portfolio per-canonical-per-location-benchmark-report-version-control + per-portfolio-audit-trail. Per-PR-style-versioning + per-snapshot + per-diff + per-rollback + per-CSV-export + per-SOC2-export + per-FDD-export + per-immutable-storage canonical-version-audit.

Frequently asked questions

What is a cohort-framed benchmark report at multi-location scale?

Cohort-framed benchmark report runs per-portfolio per-location per-canonical-per-location-peer-cohort-construction + per-canonical-per-location-vs-peer-cohort-benchmark + per-canonical-per-location-vs-portfolio-baseline + per-canonical-per-location-outlier-flagging + per-canonical-per-location-root-cause-handoff + per-canonical-per-location-seasonality-adjustment + per-canonical-per-location-benchmark-report-LLM-narrative + per-canonical-per-franchisee-RLS-isolation + per-canonical-per-location-benchmark-report-export + per-canonical-per-location-benchmark-report-version-control + per-portfolio audit-trail. Per-canonical-per-location-peer-cohort-construction runs per-portfolio per-canonical-per-location-peer-cohort-dimension-spec (per-vintage-cohort + per-revenue-tier-cohort + per-store-size-cohort + per-market-density-cohort + per-vertical-cohort + per-region-cohort + per-DMA-cohort + per-grand-opening-month-cohort + per-acquisition-source-cohort per-canonical-cohort-dimension) + per-canonical-per-location-cohort-cluster-algorithm (per-K-means + per-Hierarchical + per-DBSCAN + per-Gaussian-Mixture + per-LLM-augmented-cluster-naming per-canonical-cluster-algorithm) + per-canonical-per-location-cohort-membership-validation + per-canonical-per-location-cohort-membership-revision-tracking. The per-platform BI-benchmarking vendor category includes Tableau, Looker (Google Cloud), Power BI (Microsoft), Qlik Sense, Domo, Sisense, ThoughtSpot, Mode (Klaviyo), Hex, Sigma Computing, Metabase, Cube, AgencyAnalytics, DashThis, DataPine, Klipfolio.

Why does per-vendor-Tableau-canonical-Dashboard-canonical-single-account break down at multi-location-cohort-framed-benchmarking scale?

Per-vendor-Tableau-canonical-Dashboard ships per-account per-data-source per-view primitive. Per-vendor-Looker + per-Power-BI + per-Qlik-Sense + per-Domo + per-Sisense + per-ThoughtSpot + per-Mode + per-Hex + per-Sigma-Computing + per-Metabase-canonical-single-account ship per-vendor per-native BI primitives. At 1-location-1-dashboard scale per-account per-data-source per-view primitive is enough. At multi-location-cohort-framed-benchmarking scale per-canonical-per-location-peer-cohort-construction-canonical-not-national-average + per-canonical-per-location-vs-peer-cohort-benchmark-canonical-not-portfolio-average + per-canonical-per-location-outlier-flagging-canonical-2-sigma-3-sigma + per-canonical-per-location-root-cause-handoff-canonical-to-diagnostic-agent + per-canonical-per-location-seasonality-adjustment-canonical-STL-X-13-ARIMA + per-canonical-per-location-benchmark-report-LLM-narrative-canonical-GPT-4-Claude-Gemini + per-canonical-per-franchisee-RLS-isolation-canonical-per-Postgres-Snowflake-BigQuery-Redshift + per-canonical-per-location-benchmark-report-export-canonical-PowerPoint-PDF-Google-Slides + per-canonical-per-location-benchmark-report-version-control-canonical-PR-style + per-canonical-FDD-franchise-disclosure-document-canonical-Item-19-FPR-disclaimer.

How does per-portfolio per-canonical-per-location-peer-cohort-construction + per-vs-peer-cohort-benchmark work?

Per-portfolio per-canonical-per-location-peer-cohort-construction runs per-portfolio per-canonical-per-location-peer-cohort-dimension-spec (per-vintage-cohort-grand-opening-quarter-year + per-revenue-tier-cohort-AUV-tier + per-store-size-cohort-sqft + per-market-density-cohort-urban-suburban-rural + per-vertical-cohort-QSR-fitness-beauty + per-region-cohort + per-DMA-cohort + per-grand-opening-month-cohort + per-acquisition-source-cohort per-canonical-cohort-dimension) + per-canonical-per-location-cohort-cluster-algorithm (per-K-means + per-Hierarchical-Agglomerative + per-DBSCAN + per-Gaussian-Mixture-Model + per-LLM-augmented-cluster-naming + per-silhouette-score-optimal-cluster-count + per-Davies-Bouldin-index per-canonical-cluster) + per-canonical-per-location-cohort-membership-validation (per-cohort-min-size-5-locations + per-cohort-max-size-50-locations + per-cohort-homogeneity-score per-canonical-validation) + per-canonical-per-location-cohort-membership-revision-tracking + per-canonical-per-location-cohort-membership-transition-on-data-update. Per-canonical-per-location-vs-peer-cohort-benchmark runs per-portfolio per-canonical-per-location-per-KPI-percentile-rank-in-cohort + per-canonical-per-location-per-KPI-z-score-vs-cohort-median + per-canonical-per-location-per-KPI-IQR-position + per-canonical-per-location-per-KPI-cohort-coefficient-of-variation + per-canonical-per-location-per-KPI-cohort-rank-stability-trend.

What does per-portfolio per-canonical-per-location-outlier-flagging + per-root-cause-handoff + per-seasonality-adjustment do?

Per-portfolio per-canonical-per-location-outlier-flagging runs per-portfolio per-canonical-per-location-per-KPI-2-sigma-outlier-detection + per-canonical-per-location-per-KPI-3-sigma-outlier-detection + per-canonical-per-location-per-KPI-Mann-Kendall-trend-test + per-canonical-per-location-per-KPI-CUSUM-control-chart + per-canonical-per-location-per-KPI-EWMA-control-chart + per-canonical-per-location-per-KPI-outlier-severity-tiering (per-Tier-1-Critical-bottom-5-percent + per-Tier-2-High-bottom-10-percent + per-Tier-3-Medium-bottom-25-percent + per-Tier-4-Low-watchlist per-canonical-severity). Per-canonical-per-location-root-cause-handoff runs per-portfolio per-canonical-per-outlier-root-cause-LLM-classification (per-staffing-issue + per-pricing-issue + per-product-quality + per-CS-experience + per-local-market-shock + per-competitor-opening + per-marketing-spend-reduction + per-seasonality-mismatch + per-NAP-drift + per-GBP-suspension + per-supply-chain-issue per-canonical-root-cause) + per-canonical-per-outlier-handoff-to-diagnostic-agent-spec + per-canonical-per-outlier-handoff-stakeholder-routing (per-Operations-VP + per-Regional-Manager + per-District-Manager + per-Franchise-Business-Consultant per-canonical-routing). Per-canonical-per-location-seasonality-adjustment runs per-portfolio per-canonical-STL-Seasonal-Trend-decomposition-using-Loess + per-canonical-X-13-ARIMA-SEATS-seasonal-adjustment + per-canonical-Holt-Winters-exponential-smoothing + per-canonical-Prophet-Facebook-Meta-seasonality + per-canonical-per-location-seasonality-vs-cohort-seasonality-deviation.

What does per-portfolio per-canonical-per-location-benchmark-report-LLM-narrative + per-franchisee-RLS + per-report-export do?

Per-portfolio per-canonical-per-location-benchmark-report-LLM-narrative runs per-portfolio per-canonical-per-location-benchmark-narrative-template-spec (per-executive-summary + per-cohort-membership + per-per-KPI-percentile-rank + per-per-KPI-outlier-flag + per-per-KPI-root-cause-hypothesis + per-per-KPI-recommended-action + per-FDD-Item-19-FPR-disclaimer per-canonical-narrative-template) + per-canonical-per-location-benchmark-narrative-multi-LLM-generation (per-GPT-4 + per-Claude-Sonnet + per-Gemini-Pro per-canonical-LLM) + per-canonical-per-location-benchmark-narrative-CFO-review-loop + per-canonical-per-location-benchmark-narrative-fact-grounding-spec. Per-canonical-per-franchisee-RLS-isolation runs per-portfolio per-canonical-per-franchisee-sees-own-locations-and-cohort-anonymized + per-canonical-per-franchisee-sees-cohort-aggregate-anonymized + per-canonical-per-franchisee-sees-portfolio-aggregate-anonymized + per-canonical-corporate-sees-all + per-canonical-Franchise-Development-Council-FDC-elected-representative-sees-all + per-canonical-per-Postgres-RLS-policy + per-canonical-per-Snowflake-RLS-policy + per-canonical-per-BigQuery-RLS-policy + per-canonical-per-Redshift-RLS-policy. Per-canonical-per-location-benchmark-report-export runs per-portfolio per-canonical-PowerPoint-export-python-pptx + per-canonical-Google-Slides-export + per-canonical-PDF-export-Puppeteer + per-canonical-per-report-template-spec + per-canonical-per-report-version-control + per-canonical-per-report-stakeholder-distribution-routing.

What does per-portfolio per-canonical-benchmarking-agent-canonical-bundle do?

Per-benchmarking-agent-canonical-bundle integrates the cohort-framed-benchmark-reports skill with sibling skills on the same agent: per-canonical-benchmark-report (sibling, parent commercial pillar at /benchmark-report) + per-canonical-peer-cohort-benchmarking (sibling, parent commercial pillar at /peer-cohort-benchmarking) + per-canonical-franchise-performance-correlation (sibling, complementary per-franchisee performance correlation on cohort-framed substrate) + per-canonical-franchisee-accountability-dashboard (sibling, complementary per-franchisee accountability on cohort-framed substrate) + per-canonical-quarterly-board-deck-generation (sibling, downstream consumer of cohort-framed benchmark reports for board-deck generation) + per-canonical-cohort-framed-kpi-rollup (sibling, complementary cohort-framed KPI rollup with CFO/franchisee trustworthiness).

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Per-portfolio per-location per-canonical-per-location-peer-cohort-construction + per-vs-peer-cohort-benchmark + per-outlier-flagging + per-root-cause-handoff + per-seasonality-adjustment + per-benchmark-report-LLM-narrative + per-franchisee-RLS-isolation + per-benchmark-report-export + per-benchmark-report-version-control + per-portfolio audit-trail shipped as the orchestration layer above your existing per-BI-benchmarking-vendor + per-clustering-platform + per-anomaly-detection-vendor + per-seasonal-adjustment-vendor primitive.

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