Built for contractors. Not accountants.
The General Contracting Profit Simulator
A job's totals can look healthy at closeout while individual phases underneath it bled the whole way through, because cost tracking was too coarse to catch it. Add subs hired on lowest bid who miss deadlines, change orders approved on a handshake and priced weeks later, and progress invoices billed late enough to starve cash flow on jobs that were actually profitable, and the business ends the year working harder than the numbers show.
The General Contracting Profit Simulator is a free, 5-minute diagnostic built for contractors, not accountants. Enter a few numbers you already know and it scores 13 areas of your sales, operations, and marketing, then hands you a prioritized action plan. Every report ends with an optional 30-minute profit clarity call.
Find My Profit Leaks FreeWhere general contracting businesses leak profit
- Subs hired on lowest bid, then missed deadlines and rework get paid for out of your margin.
- Change orders performed on verbal approval and priced weeks later, or never.
- Labor hours turned in Friday for the whole week and coded to the wrong job or phase.
- Supervision, drive time, and PM hours parked in overhead instead of charged to the jobs that caused them.
- Job-level totals looking healthy while individual phases bleed, because cost tracking is too coarse.
- Progress billed late and slow-paid invoices, so profitable jobs still starve cash flow.
- No photo documentation, so end-of-job disputes get settled with discounts instead of proof.
How it works
Enter your numbers.
Plug in a few basic numbers about your business. Estimates work just fine. No spreadsheets needed.
See your profit leaks.
Instantly see where money is slipping through the cracks across 13 areas of your business.
Get your roadmap.
Get a detailed profit report with a prioritized action plan to start recovering that money.
FAQs
- What is a good net profit margin for a general contractor?
- Margin needs to be tracked by phase as well as by job, because a healthy job-level total can hide a phase that's losing money underneath it. Getting cost tracking granular enough to see each phase is usually a bigger lever on net margin than any single pricing decision.
- How do I manage change orders so they stop killing my profit?
- Require every change order to be priced and signed before the work happens instead of after. A verbal "sure, we'll take care of it" on site is how labor and material get spent on work that never gets billed. The rule has to apply to every job, including the good customers, or it quietly stops applying at all.
- How do I hold subcontractors accountable without micromanaging them?
- Set the standard in the bid and contract stage instead of on site after work has already started. Clear deadlines, a defined scope, and a bid process that doesn't automatically default to lowest price all reduce the missed deadlines and rework that end up getting absorbed into your margin instead of the sub's.
- How do I bill progress so cash flow doesn't lag behind actual work?
- Bill on a schedule tied to completed work, submitted promptly, rather than batching invoices for convenience. A profitable job can still create a cash flow problem if the invoice for completed phase 1 goes out weeks after phase 2 has already started, because the business is financing the gap.
Find My Profit Leaks Free
Built for contractors. Not accountants.
Find My Profit Leaks FreeEvery report ends with an optional free 30-minute profit clarity call. No commitment required.