ENGAGEMENT 04 · FACILITY SERVICES

Four things we did. One running total.

~$75M REVENUE · 2500+ EMPLOYEES · LARGE-SCALE FACILITY SERVICES + MULTI-SITE OPS · CLIENT SINCE 2024

A $75M facility services operation where margin hid at the job level until job-cost systems caught up with the size of the business. The tally at the top of your screen starts at zero. Every entry below posts to it as you read.

TOTAL IMPACT, POSTING AS YOU READTOTAL IMPACT+$0K

THE WORK, IN ORDER

What we actually did.

IMPACT 01WEEKS 6–16

Job-level profit became visible across 2,500 employees.

Automated timecard intake and a live job-cost dashboard replaced paper tracking at scale.

company-wide profit hiding crew-level losses→margin visible down to the crew

▲ +$850KPROFIT / YR

IMPACT 02WEEKS 10–20

The chart of accounts caught up to the size of the business.

Restructured for job-level reporting across a much larger portfolio of contracts and locations.

one P&L for $75M in revenue→reporting structured by job

▲ +$650KPROFIT / YR

IMPACT 03WEEKS 14–26

Working capital stopped hiding in overbuilt jobs.

Tightened procurement and job-cost discipline at scale freed up capital that had been sitting in over-provisioned jobs.

cash tied up across hundreds of jobs→$3M freed into working capital

▲ +$3.00MCASH (ONE-TIME)

IMPACT 04ONGOING

And the close runs on a playbook, not tribal knowledge.

A monthly close playbook installed for a team this size, so the process survives turnover.

close depended on tribal knowledge→a playbook the team owns

▲ +$300KCOMPOUNDING / YR

THE TALLY, CLOSED OUT

+$4.80M

TOTAL IMPACT · 4 ENTRIES · PROFIT, CASH, AND COMPOUNDING WINS

Some of it recurs every year. Some of it landed once and changed what the bank and the balance sheet look like. All of it came from the same place: a connected system, and someone senior running it.

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