You built a real business. Now the numbers are blurry, the margins feel off, and the gut you used to scale on isn't enough.
We run a 60-day diagnostic that tells you exactly where the money is leaking — and what to do about it.
We don't sell open-ended retainers and we don't replace your team. We deliver a clear diagnostic, quantify the problems, and hand you a plan you can act on — with us or without us.
We listen for operational and financial pain — pricing that feels off, margins you can't explain, labor costs you can't pin down, customer concentration you can't see clearly. By the end, you'll know whether we're the right fit.
A deep operational and financial diagnostic delivered in six weeks. We reconstruct your margins, audit your labor utilization, benchmark your pricing, and deliver a prioritized action plan with a dollar figure attached to every recommendation.
For a small number of clients each year, the sprint becomes a longer partnership — fractional COO support, board-level advising, or deeper operational involvement. We only take this work when the fit is right and the owner wants a partner, not a vendor.
"We don't consult from the outside. We've built and operated inside complex businesses — and we know what it feels like when the spreadsheet stops telling the truth."
Our clients are founders and operators running real businesses — $2M to $10M in revenue, 10 to 75 employees, decision authority in one or two people. Skilled at the work. Underserved by the financial and operational visibility tools that should make the next stage of growth possible.
Countertop and stone shops, custom millwork, machining job shops, and specialty fabricators. You know the trade. The job costing, labor tracking, and margin visibility have not caught up to the complexity of the business you've built.
HVAC, electrical, plumbing, and other multi-truck service operations. Revenue is healthy. Margins are not what they should be, and you don't yet have the system to tell you exactly why.
Dental, veterinary, and medical practice groups expanding past their first or second location. The systems that worked at one location are breaking at three. You need visibility across the group before the next acquisition.
Subcontractors and suppliers between $2M and $10M. AS9100 burden, contract fulfillment pressure, and job costing complexity that off-the-shelf tools weren't built for. Our background gives us native fluency in this world.
Most operational consultants come from MBA programs or strategy firms. We come from engineering and the inside of a real business — and we anchor every recommendation in your numbers, not in a playbook from someone else's company.
Our background includes mechanical and systems engineering at a major aerospace and defense prime contractor. We apply the same rigor — requirements, root-cause analysis, structured problem-solving — to your operation.
Most operational advice ignores your actual numbers. We don't. Every recommendation is anchored in contribution margins, variance analysis, and job costing rebuilt from your real cost data. You see exactly where the dollars are.
We do not sell open-ended retainers or build dependency. The sprint delivers a plan you own — implement it yourself, hand it to your team, or invite us into a deeper partnership. The choice stays yours.
Systems engineering rigor. Managerial accounting clarity. The discipline of a complex engineering organization, applied to the business you actually run.
We ask about your margins, your labor costs, your customer mix, and where your time disappears. By the end, both of us know whether a sprint is the right next step — and we will tell you honestly if it isn't.
We go deep — operational walkthrough, margin reconstruction, labor and pricing analysis — and deliver a written diagnostic with a prioritized action plan. Every recommendation has a dollar figure attached.
Most clients take the plan and run it themselves or hand it to their team. A small number invite us into a longer partnership. We do not push the retainer — the work either earns it or it doesn't.
Every engagement is documented. We build pattern recognition across industries — and let the diagnostics speak for themselves.
Owner sensed margins were compressing but lacked the cost system to identify why. Diagnostic reconstructed true labor cost per job, benchmarked pricing against industry norms, and surfaced unverified assumptions driving underpricing on the highest-volume product line.
Six weeks. Margin reconstruction by service line, true labor cost analysis, pricing benchmark review, and customer concentration assessment. Every finding quantified in dollars. Every recommendation prioritized by impact. A written diagnostic and a 90-day action plan you can act on with us or without us — drawing on accountability frameworks like EOS (Wickman, Traction) and managerial accounting discipline.
60 minutes. No pitch. We listen for operational pain and tell you honestly whether we can help.
An owner-operator running a $2M to $10M business — specialty manufacturing, licensed trades, multi-location practice groups, or technical subcontractors. You're profitable but the visibility isn't there. You can feel that something is off but you don't yet have the system to tell you exactly what.
A 60-minute call. We'll ask about your margins, your labor, your customer mix, and where growth is stalling. You'll leave with at least one clear insight — whether we work together or not.
Free · 60 minutes · Phone or video · No obligation