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Working versions of the analyses we run with clients. Every workbook is formula-driven, macro-free, and opens in Excel or Google Sheets. Use them; if what they find needs a second set of hands, you know where we are.
See it at a glance
Dashboard
The Owner's Monthly Dashboard
Nine numbers a month, one page of answers: eight KPIs with in-cell trend lines, your targets, and traffic lights. Ships working, with example data.
Dashboard
A/R Collections Dashboard
Paste open invoices; the aging picture builds itself, the ten biggest overdue balances rank themselves, and CALL NOW flags name Monday's calls.
Dashboard
Job Profitability Tracker
Quoted margin versus kept margin, job by job. Slippage flags itself in red, and the total across the book gets a dollar figure.
Dashboard
Ops KPI Scoreboard
The weekly huddle on one page: ten operational KPIs from safety to backlog to overtime, with trends, targets, and traffic lights. Configurable to your operation.
Run the business
Planning
Annual Operating Plan
A driver-based budget: volume, price, and cost phased across twelve months, with a prior-year EBITDA bridge that reconciles to the dollar.
Planning
EBITDA Sensitivity & Scenarios
What one percent of price, volume, and cost is worth in EBITDA dollars, ranked, plus a price-by-volume grid and three honest scenarios against your floor.
Planning
Capex ROI & Project Ranking
A project register that makes capital compete: payback, NPV at your hurdle, honest treatment of must-do maintenance, and a funding block that holds the budget line.
Reporting
Month-End Close Checklist
The day-by-day close calendar: one owner per task, a day-3 flash, evidence-based done, and a days-to-close trend toward day seven.
Cash
13-Week Cash Flow Forecast
The weekly cash discipline, built: revolver logic against your minimum cash floor, automatic low-cash flags, and a forecast-vs-actual variance tab.
Cash
Working Capital & CCC Workbook
Measure the cycle, price what one day is worth, and preview the working capital peg before a buyer sets it for you.
Cash
Inventory Health & Cash
Days on hand and turns per item, dead and slow-mover flags, and the cash a disciplined workdown would release from your shelves.
Margin
Price & Discount Calculator
The breakeven matrix and a deal screen that verdicts any discount or increase in margin dollars, before you say yes.
Margin
Price Increase Playbook
The breakeven math, the segmentation, the execution discipline, and three ready-to-adapt letters. Six pages, operator-written.
Margin
Customer Whale Curve Workbook
Rank up to 200 customers by true contribution. The curve peaks, the tail flags itself, and the drag gets a dollar figure.
Lenders & sponsors
Covenant Headroom Tracker
Net leverage and fixed-charge coverage across eight quarters, WATCH flags under 15% headroom, and the EBITDA cushion in plain dollars.
Lenders & sponsors
Lender Package Builder
The credit file, assembled: a lender-format debt schedule, a covenant certificate with headroom, a balancing sources-and-uses, and the document checklist.
Lenders & sponsors
Debt Capacity & Deal Box
How much the business can borrow, computed both ways a lender computes it, with the binding constraint named and a deal box that shows what an acquisition can pay.
Prepare the exit
M&A
Post-Acquisition Integration Runbook
Diligence hypotheses converted to a verified baseline, an integration plan by phase, and a synergy register honest enough to count the dis-synergies.
Value creation
Value Creation Plan Tracker
Named initiatives with owners, dollar targets, stages, and a validated-in-the-P&L column. The plan a sponsor can read in two minutes.
Exit
Concentration & Retention Risk
Top-account shares and HHI the way a buyer reads them, a risk score per account, and the contribution at risk if the vulnerable accounts walked.
Exit
EBITDA Add-Backs & Valuation Bridge
Grade every add-back against a buyer's QoE standard and see the re-trade exposure priced at your multiple.
Exit
7 Numbers Before an LOI
The checklist of what a buyer scrutinizes before the letter of intent ever arrives, with the thresholds they apply.
Interactive
Exit-Readiness Scorecard
Two minutes, twelve questions, and an honest read on how a buyer would score the business today.
Interactive
AI-Readiness Scorecard
Whether your operation is ready to get real value from AI, and what to fix first if it is not.
Interactive
The Owner's Dozen
Twelve numbers you should know from memory, scored honestly in two minutes. Three or more blanks and reporting is the first fix.
Every workbook follows the same convention: yellow cells are inputs, everything else calculates. The proof these tools generate is on display in our case studies. When a tool finds something worth acting on, start a conversation.