The impossible morning
A tariff lands at midnight. By lunchtime the company has been rebuilt around it: supply, pricing, customers and guidance.
- Agents
- 2,400
- on the default fleet
- Starts
- 6:02 AM
- Done by
- 11:52 AM
- 8 minutes to spare
- Elapsed
- 5 h 50 min
- from the ask to the last approval
The ask, as sent to Sol
Sol, I need the whole company rebuilt around this tariff before the board meets. Supply, pricing, customers, guidance. Everything.
The situation
Halvorsen Industrial (fictional company) is a $14B US manufacturer with 31,000 employees, 18,000 SKUs, 4,200 suppliers and customers in 42 countries. At 11:58 PM a 60% tariff on its largest supplier country takes effect without warning. The stock opens at 9:30 AM. The board meets at 1:00 PM.
Before
No company today would attempt it. The work needs 260 people and 11 weeks, and the board meets in 13 hours.
- 260 people across trade, supply chain, finance, legal and commercial teams
- 11 weeks and $9.8M in consultants
- The board meets with a first estimate and a promise to come back
With Solstice
Every exposed SKU, a qualified alternative supplier for each, a repricing plan for every contract, notices for every customer, revised guidance and the board pack, before lunch.
5 hours 50 minutes. 2,400 agents. 6 approvers.
The morning
IllustrativeSimulated time. Each line is one step of the mission as it would run on the default fleet.
Sol
Sol restates the mission as six deliverables and spins up the fleet: 2,400 agents across nine functions.
Trade
Trade agents read the tariff order, 9 customs rulings and 214 HTS code classifications.
Supply chain
Supply chain agents map all 18,000 SKUs to their bills of materials. 6,140 SKUs are exposed.
Sourcing
Sourcing agents scan 11,000 candidate suppliers in 23 countries. They qualify 2,310 alternatives against quality certifications, capacity and sanctions lists.
Finance
Finance agents rebuild landed cost for every exposed SKU. Gross margin impact: minus 340 basis points before action, minus 60 after resourcing.
Legal
Legal agents read 9,400 customer contracts and classify each by price adjustment rights: 5,800 allow pass-through, 2,900 need negotiation, 700 lock price.
Commercial
Commercial agents draft a repricing plan per account and flag the 120 largest accounts for a personal call by the account owner.
Comms
Comms agents draft 9,400 customer notices in 17 languages with identical numbers in every version.
Investor relations
Market open. The fleet does not pause.
Investor relations
Investor relations agents revise guidance, draft the investor call script and draft the 8-K. Every figure links to its source cell.
Build
Build agents ship a live supplier transition tracker for the COO.
Review
Review agents red-team every deliverable and flag 63 claims. 58 are corrected by agents. 5 go to humans.
People
The approval queue fills: CFO, General Counsel, Chief Supply Chain Officer, CRO, Head of IR, then the CEO.
Mission complete
Mission complete. The board pack lands in the CEO's inbox. The clock stops 8 minutes before lunchtime.
Lunchtime
8 minutes to spare
The agent team
Illustrative2,400
2,400 agents on the default fleet, by function.
- Trade120
- Supply chain420
- Sourcing520
- Finance280
- Legal380
- Commercial260
- Comms200
- Investor relations40
- Build20
- Review160
Named approvers
Every deliverable waits for a person with the authority to decide. Roles are illustrative.
- Chief Financial Officer
- Approves: Landed cost, margin impact and revised guidance
- General Counsel
- Approves: Contract classifications, customer notices and the 8-K draft
- Chief Supply Chain Officer
- Approves: The qualified alternative suppliers and the transition sequence
- Chief Revenue Officer
- Approves: The repricing plan and the 120 accounts that get a personal call
- Head of Investor Relations
- Approves: The investor call script
- Chief Executive Officer
- Approves: Final sign-off on the board pack
Deliverables
6 approvers, each with the authority to decide.
- Every SKU exposed to the tariff, with the landed cost change.
- Alternative suppliers qualified for every exposed SKU, ranked on cost, lead time, quality and risk.
- A repricing plan for every customer contract, within contract terms.
- Customer notices for every account, in each customer's language.
- Revised earnings guidance with every assumption visible.
- The board pack, the investor call script and the 8-K draft.
One deliverable of this mission is a working build you can open and use.
Open the buildThe same mission, two ways.
Illustrative- Traditional estimate
- 11 weeks. 260 people. $9.8M in consultants.
- Solstice
- 5 hours 50 minutes. 2,400 agents. 6 approvers.
Not faster. Previously impossible.
Illustrative. Fictional company. Simulated time.