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Service prints money. Bid work hides where it goes.

Two businesses share your trucks: profitable service calls and construction bids whose real margin hides inside WIP. We build the model that keeps them honest — job costing, over/under billing, material drift, and the cash engine progress billings actually follow.

The pains we see

You don't have a reporting problem. You have a visibility problem.

WIP hides the truth until it's late.

Over- and under-billing blur every month the job runs. The margin you booked and the margin you'll get diverge quietly — and show up at closeout.

Copper moved. The contract didn't.

Material volatility between quote and install eats fixed-price work. Without a drift number, every bid is a hedge you didn't price.

Change orders get done, not billed.

Field crews solve problems and move on. Uncaptured change orders are pure margin, walking off the job site daily.

Which side gets the next hire?

Service and construction fight for trucks and techs. Without segment P&L, the argument is won by whoever talks loudest.

The dials we wire

The numbers that actually run a plumbing & electrical company.

Every engagement starts by wiring these to your reality — your data, your definitions, posted live. If a dial doesn't change a decision, it doesn't make the wall.

Job GM — quoted vs actual WIP over/under billing Service-to-construction mix Backlog weeks Material % drift Change-order capture Billable efficiency Revenue per tech-day Callback rate A/R days by segment Progress-billing health Bid hit rate

The dials are the standard for the industry — the thresholds, targets, and drill-downs are designed around how your operation actually makes money.

What we build

Four builds, in your language.

Each one plays as a two-minute film — the same build we'd run on your numbers.

THE OPERATING MODEL

A WIP-aware model that carries jobs at earned margin, not billed margin — with the material-drift bridge priced in.

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THE CASH RHYTHM

Progress billings, retainage, and service cash on one timed curve — so payroll never depends on a draw arriving.

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THE COMMAND CENTER

Segment P&L, WIP schedule, change-order capture, and job margin — live, in the language your PM already speaks.

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THE VALUATION

Buyers discount construction risk and pay for service density. See how your mix prices — and what shifts it.

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A $7M dual-trade contractor — what changes

THE BLIND SPOT

Closeouts kept landing eight points under quote; the WIP schedule was a quarterly scramble; change orders leaked unbilled.

THE BUILD

Earned-margin job costing, a live WIP page, segment P&L, and a progress-billing cash curve.

THE DIFFERENCE

Drift got caught mid-job while it could still be fixed, capture rate climbed, and the next hire went to the segment that earned it.

Bring us the decision you're weighing.

A free consultation — 15 minutes, no prep. We'll talk about your operation in its own language, and what the build would look like on your numbers.

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