> **#project-requests** > **Mihai Popescu** 9:42 AM > > Hi! I'm Mihai, I run a small cheese operation in Sibiu -- artisan stuff, telemea, cascaval, burduf, traditional Romanian varieties. About 12 people including me. > > So here's my problem... I have data everywhere. Production batches in one spreadsheet, sales in another, milk purchases in a third. Different people maintain each one. I've been doing this for 8 years and I still can't answer the simplest question: which of my six cheeses actually makes money? > > I know roughly -- cascaval sells for more but uses more milk and ages longer. Burduf is labor-intensive but restaurants pay a premium. But "roughly" doesn't help when my accountant asks for quarterly numbers and I spend two days copy-pasting between spreadsheets. > > I need everything connected. Milk in -> cheese out -> sold to whom -> at what profit. Yield tracking -- how much cheese per liter by variety. Trends over time. Quarterly reports that generate themselves instead of stealing my weekends. > > I have about 2 years of data across the three spreadsheets. I'll share them all. The production log has batch number, variety, milk type, kilos in, kilos out, dates. Sales has customer, variety, quantity, price, date. Purchases has shepherd name, liters, fat content, price per liter, date. > > Fair warning: I'm a cheesemaker, not a data person. I can tell you the exact humidity for aging burduf in pine bark but I couldn't explain a database if my life depended on it > > Let me know how we start. **Suggested message buttons:** 1. "Hi Mihai! I'll be building your data pipeline. I've read your message -- can you tell me more about the six cheese varieties and how they differ in production?" 2. "Hey Mihai, thanks for the detail. Before I start, a few questions about your spreadsheets -- who maintains each one, and how often do they get updated?" 3. "Hi Mihai! I've reviewed your data sources. I'll start by profiling everything to understand what we're working with. I'll check in once I have a plan."