We work with e-commerce and product brands, software and SaaS businesses, managed IT and cybersecurity providers, and architecture, design and engineering practices. In each one, profit is decided by something the standard management pack does not show you.
Industries
Four sectors, four sets of pressure points. Here is where we typically start.
E-commerce and product
Revenue is the easy number. Profit hides in landed cost, payment fees, returns and discounting, all of it applied after the sale is booked. We show you contribution by SKU and channel, and what your stock is costing you in cash.
Software and SaaS
Technology businesses live by metrics. Founders and leadership teams need reporting that shows growth, runway and performance clearly: the kind that drives both operational decisions and investor conversations.
Managed IT and Cybersecurity
You can report SLA performance to the percentage point. Margin by agreement is harder. We separate recurring from project revenue, load the true cost to serve, and show which contracts are actually paying.
Architecture, Design & Engineering
Fee is agreed at the start; profitability is decided over the following months. We track recoverability against time spent, profit by project and the cash timing of stage payments, while there's still room to act.
The common thread
Whatever you sell, the same three things decide whether the numbers are useful: what they measure, when you see them, and whether anyone acts on them.
Before any reporting is built, we work out where the money is genuinely made and lost in your model: by product, contract, project or channel.
Not a pack that goes unread. The measures you need for pricing, hiring, investment and cash, in a form your leadership team can act on.
A regular cycle of numbers, interpretation and decisions, so performance is reviewed while there is still time to change the outcome.
Not seeing your sector? Most of the businesses we work with are knowledge-led or project-based, past the point where bookkeeping answers the question. If that sounds like yours, the conversation starts the same way.
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