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title: "Keystone | Loss Prevention for Convenience Store Chains"
description: "Keystone finds where convenience stores are losing money and shows exactly where to look: which store, which person, which shift and which video."
canonical: "https://carbidedigital.io/keystone"
type: "service"
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# Keystone

## In brief

Keystone is a loss prevention and operational audit system for convenience store chains. It connects the data you already have from registers, cameras and back office, compares it every day, and gives your auditors a ranked list of where to look and the video to check. You replace nothing.

Your registers, cameras and back office already hold the reason a store comes up short. Nothing connects them. Keystone does, every day, and tells you where to look: the store, the person, the product, the shift and the video to check.

## The opportunity

When a store comes up short, the honest answer is usually still a guess.

## Why the loss is hard to see

An exception report catches the big cases and misses the rest: the cashier just under the threshold, the small problem that repeats every week, the pattern spread across stores. Those never ring as anything, and the drawer still balances.

Your auditors then spend their week reading reports and counting stores to work out who, what and when.

## What Keystone does

Keystone sits on top of your registers, cameras and back office. Every day it compares each cashier, product, shift and store with their own history and with their peers, and ranks what stands out.

The result is a short list that already says which store, which person and which product, and why it is on the list.

## From a short count to thirty seconds of video

When the numbers are off and nothing points anywhere, somebody scrubs hours of footage. Keystone hands your team the cashier, register, shift and time to check, so the review takes minutes instead of a day.

## The result

### Loss caught earlier

Problems surface while they are still small, instead of weeks later when an audit counts what already left.

### Auditors with time back

A ranked list says which store to visit next and why, so the hours go to more audits and to coaching cashiers and managers.

### A clear picture at corporate

Repeat issues, ignored alerts and follow-through by store and by manager, in one place.

## Questions

### Does Keystone replace our registers, cameras or exception reports?

No. It runs on top of them and uses the data they already produce. You keep every system you have.

### What kinds of loss can Keystone find?

Skimming and sweethearting, cash handling problems, and the small repeated exceptions that never cross an exception report's threshold. It also helps explain loss you already know about but can only guess at.

### Who is Keystone for?

Convenience store chains with registers, cameras and an audit team, where a loss at one store is hard to trace to a person, a product or a shift.

### How do we get started?

Get in touch. We will walk you through Keystone using your own setup.

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Publisher: Carbide Digital: team@carbidedigital.io