Because any question worth asking spans functions. It gets delegated, three people spend a day, and the answer arrives after the decision was needed.
So decisions get made on the most recent anecdote, which is what everyone was trying to avoid.
A question spanning sales, delivery, support and finance is answered in a sentence with the rows shown, because they are one record.
The follow-up is another question rather than another commission.
It will not interpret the answer. It reports what the record holds; what it means for the business is the conversation you were having.
It also will not see what nobody recorded.
Answers can be checked while the discussion is happening, which is what makes them usable rather than something to verify afterwards.
The cost of curiosity drops, so more questions get asked — usually the useful narrow ones.
Yes, including salary and commercial data.
Yes, with the underlying rows for each.
No. It answers questions, and shows its working.
Half an hour on your own numbers is usually enough to say whether Pulse is the right place to start.