From guesswork to clarity, step by step.
Drive profit. Protect margins. Control cashflow.
See exactly how we turn your numbers into decisions, and how we get there with you from day one.
Are you actually making money?
Enter a few rough numbers. See your real profit, the price to charge, how long your cash lasts, and the least you must invoice to cover your overheads.
▶ Show me the maths
Follow one job through, step by step. We will use the example numbers: £500,000 turnover, £300,000 costs, £100,000 overheads, keeping 15%.
- 1
Start with what you bring in
Your turnover. Everything you invoice.
£500,000 in - 2
Take off the cost of the work
Labour, materials, plant, subbies. What is left is your gross profit.
£500,000 minus £300,000 = £200,000 gross profit (40%) - 3
Take off running the business
Office, admin, vehicles, insurance. What is left now is your net profit, the money the business actually keeps.
£200,000 minus £100,000 = £100,000 net profit (20%) - 4
Share overheads across every job
Overheads are a yearly figure. Do not bolt a whole year onto one job. Spread them as a rate: here they are 20% of revenue, so every £1 of work carries 20p of overhead.
£100,000 overheads ÷ £500,000 turnover = 20p in every £1 - 5
Work out the price to charge
Price the job so it covers its costs, carries its share of overheads, and leaves the profit you want. The formula: cost ÷ (1 minus overhead rate minus profit).
£300,000 ÷ (1 minus 0.20 minus 0.15) = £461,538 - !
The catch most people miss
That price is your cost plus 54%. But you only keep 15%. Adding a percent to your cost is not the same as keeping it as profit. Price off the number you add and you underprice every job.
This is what six months of guesswork really costs you.
These are typical, well-documented losses for a business your size, scaled to the turnover you entered above. Watch what slips through while no one’s watching the numbers.
Margin erosion
Labour overruns on two live jobs go untracked and get absorbed silently into margin. Nearly 2% of a year’s revenue, gone before anyone notices.
Pricing mistake
A contract quoted below true overhead recovery. The work is won, and money is lost delivering it. Common when rates are set by feel, not by numbers.
Cash shock
Two clients pay late at the same time. No forecast, no buffer, no warning. Payroll ends up on the overdraft.
The typical cost of waiting for a business your size, across six months that could have been managed from week one.
Start managing from week one →From first call to live numbers.
A clear path, with no surprises. We agree the scope and the terms before any work begins, then move fast.
Under the hood
- Commercial contracts reviewed
- Pricing models audited against true overhead recovery
- Cashflow mapped: invoicing, position, committed costs
- Gross and net margins defined per project
- Full P&L review
Ongoing oversight
- Cash position updated live
- 30 / 60 / 90+ day rolling forecast
- Debtors and creditors tracked
- Project performance vs budget
- Margin erosion flagged early
Strategic review
- Margin model updated
- Pricing scenarios modelled
- Quarterly targets reviewed
- Hiring and growth decisions
- Forward risk assessment
What this looks like in practice.
Real dashboards. Real numbers. Built for SME owners who want clarity, not more spreadsheets.
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