Know which jobs make money before the final invoice.

Building and trade businesses don't go broke because of bad work. They go broke because of quotes that didn't cover every cost, progress claims that lag behind the money going out, and busy months that somehow still end with an empty bank account.

That's the gap I sit in. I turn your job numbers into decisions you can make while the job is still running, rather than explanations after it has finished.

I do the bookkeeping as well, not just the advice on top of it. Job costing only works if the costs are coded to the job in the first place, and that is a data problem before it is an analysis problem. When the same person does both, it gets fixed rather than reported on.

You keep your accountant for the tax. I handle everything before it.

You don't need to love spreadsheets and you don't need to learn accounting language. You need someone who does, who'll tell you in one sentence what the numbers mean and what we're doing about it.

A real example. A building client's rate card review showed their charge out rate wasn't carrying the true cost of wages and overheads. Bringing it into line was worth tens of thousands a year, without winning a single extra job.

Book a free 30 minute call. Bring one job you're not sure made money, and we'll look at it together.

Start with one job.

Pick a job that felt busy but did not leave much behind, and I will work out what it actually cost and what it actually made. Three pages in plain English, your numbers in a calculator you keep, and forty five minutes with me. $750, ten business days, and nothing has to change until you want it to.

What does someone on your team really cost you?

You pay them $37 an hour. Once super, leave, workers compensation, allowances and the hours nobody can invoice are loaded in, they cost you closer to $63 for every hour you can actually bill. This calculator does the maths on your own numbers in about five minutes.