Where margin is leaking mid-project
The specific stages between quoting and close-out where projects your size lose money without it ever showing up on the P&L until it's too late to fix.
Fifteen questions. Three minutes. An honest read on where a business your size and shape is losing time, cash, and margin, plus the next step we'd actually recommend.
Projects that last more than a few days. Crews, subs, materials, weather, variations. The kind of operation where a single project going sideways can quietly eat a month of margin before anyone notices.
The specific stages between quoting and close-out where projects your size lose money without it ever showing up on the P&L until it's too late to fix.
Progress claims not raised, retentions sitting untracked, variations lost between the site and the invoice. Usually 30 to 100k in a business your size.
Most operators at this stage try to solve chaos by adding another PM, salesperson, or admin. The report tells you where that would actually help and where it would just paper over a broken function.
I'm Josh. I run WorkArc. We build and run the operations function for outdoor construction companies in NZ and Australia. Closer to a key hire than a subscription, without the salary, the desk, or six months of onboarding.
This diagnostic isn't theoretical. The questions come from the patterns we see running across projects at 10-30 staff businesses every week. Every insight you get back has been earned by watching operations either work or fall apart.
You'll walk away with a sharper picture of where your operation stands and what specifically to do next.