Sardine Strategic Business Review
NovaPay Financial· $480K ARR · Renewal Q4 2026
NovaPay Financial — 30 / 60 / 90 Day Recovery Plan

Turn −$401K into +$50K

— and a contested renewal into expansion, in one quarter.

NovaPay is catching the fraud — recall is ~95%. The cost is the problem: precision is ~51%, so half of every flag is false — one root cause behind the 3,400-alert backlog, 67% auto-decisioning, and −$401K of wasted ROI every two weeks.

Health: Yellow, trending red — and every red is fixable
What this plan delivers

Three commitments, one quarter

Every promise below is anchored to a number in NovaPay's own data — not a forecast we hope lands.
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Renewal

Stop the churn

Visible wins land before the competitor eval and the OCC exam. We move renewal risk from Medium-High to Low by proving recovery, not promising it.

High → Lowrenewal risk, by day 90
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Turnaround

Prove it with numbers

Auto-decisioning climbs toward 80%, the backlog clears, and net ROI crosses back to positive — each step traced to a specific tuned rule.

−$401K → +$50Knet ROI in 90 days
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Growth

Power what's next

Once trust is rebuilt, RTP / Push-Fraud is the fraud layer their FedNow rollout and Q3 BNPL launch already require — sequenced after the proof point.

$480K → $600KARR with RTP expansion (+25%)
The plan, phase by phase

The 90-day recovery

Select a phase to see the projected KPIs, the trajectory, and exactly who does what, by when.
Stabilize → Optimize → Prove
Critical
Recovery trajectorynormalized 0–100 · dashed = target · ▾ selected phase
This phase — what we do
Why we're confident

One problem, three costumes

100% data-driven: every recovery number above traces back to these 10 rules — a 2-week sample of 34,261 transactions.
Four high-volume rules fire half the volume at under 25% precision. Fix four rules — not the platform.
95%
Recall (fraud caught)
51%
Precision (half false)
−$401K
Net ROI / yr
Net ROI by rule
Red bleeds left · green earns right · annualized $K
🔴 The 4 bleedersTUNE
~$496K of the negative ROI sits in these four. Even halving their false fires is a six-figure swing — and #4776 already proved tuning works.
⭐ The 4 winnersAUTO-DECLINE
+$109K combined, 84–95% precision. Auto-declining them lifts auto-decisioning and hands analyst time straight back — week one.
What I'd confirm in discovery Confident in the direction — these three I'd validate before committing numbers to paper.
01
NovaPay's exact false-positive methodology. Reconcile the 22% portfolio-level vs ~49% rule-level figures — different denominators, not a contradiction. Confirm which one NovaPay reports against.
02
The +$50K assumptions. False-decline CLV ($250) and the achievable post-tune precision (~45%) are modeled — validate both against NovaPay's real numbers and the A/B outcomes.
03
Competitor-eval & renewal timeline. Confirm the evaluation window so the 30/60/90 proof points are landing before the decision, not after.
Appendix

The model behind every number

Reproduces NovaPay's workbook to the dollar — change any blue assumption or pull a recovery lever and every number recomputes. Net ROI is per 2-week period (×26 = annualized). Explore it after the call.
Baseline reproduces the Excel to the dollar
Open the live model
Assumptionseditable inputs
The blue cells from the workbook — tweak to match the client's economics.
Recovery leverstied to the 30/60/90 plan
Jump to a phase, or tune by hand. Each lever maps to a committed action in the plan above.
Auto-decline the 4 winners #3 #4 #7 #10 — 84–95% precision, off the manual queue
Tune the 4 bleeders — target precision (recall held)
True declines (fraud caught) are held constant — tuning cuts false positives, never recall.
#Rule FiresFalse+PrecisionReview $ /2wkNet ROI /2wkQuadrant