Architecture, Design & Engineering
Winning more work isn't the same as making more money.
Finance leadership for practices with 3 to 50 people.
The problem
It isn't a failure of talent. It's a failure of measurement.
Consultancies, architectural practices and engineering firms share a model: expertise sold as time, with profit decided by utilisation, recovery rates and how well work-in-progress converts to cash. We bring finance leadership shaped around that model, from project margin reporting to capacity planning and partner-level profitability. We understand knowledge-led businesses because we are one.
Median vs top quartile
What changes
You find out which projects paid for themselves.
Concentration risk, priced
What losing your largest client would actually do, and how long you'd have to respond.
Resourcing before you commit
What a project needs, what it will earn, and whether you should take it, while the answer still matters.
Fee recovery by stage
What you bid against what it cost, stage by stage, including the unpaid work that won it.
Rates that hold and fees fully recovered
Effective rate against contracted rate, and the recovery you lose between the two.
Next step
Find out where you stand.
Thirty minutes. No prep needed. If it isn't a fit we'll tell you.
