ENGAGEMENT 05 · SPECIALTY CONTRACTOR

Four things we did. One running total.

~$8M REVENUE · 45+ EMPLOYEES · SPECIALTY TRADE + JOB-BASED CREWS · CLIENT SINCE 2022

A contractor who couldn't tell which jobs paid, until job-level accounting and a live dashboard showed him. 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 3–8

Unprofitable bid types stopped going out.

Job-level P&L exposed which bid types were quietly losing money once labor was tracked accurately.

pricing every bid the same way→killed the losers, doubled down on winners

▲ +$190KPROFIT / YR

IMPACT 02WEEKS 6–12

The dashboard cut close time from weeks to two days.

Automated timecard intake and a live job-cost dashboard meant gross margin per job was visible within 48 hours of close instead of guessed at month-end.

no idea which crews were profitable→margin visible per job, per week

▲ +$150KPROFIT / YR

IMPACT 03WEEKS 8–14

Stopped over-buying materials nobody needed.

The restructured chart of accounts showed which jobs were carrying excess material spend; procurement tightened to actual job needs.

cash tied up in overstock→$210K freed into working capital

▲ +$210KCASH (ONE-TIME)

IMPACT 04ONGOING

And the bookkeeper runs the close alone now.

The monthly close playbook means the system keeps working without us in the room every month.

dependent on us for every close→a playbook the team owns

▲ +$70KCOMPOUNDING / YR

THE TALLY, CLOSED OUT

+$620K

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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