Agencies & creative studios
Retainers, production, freelancers, and project margin.
Industries / Creative & professional services
Margin on a fixed fee is decided in delivery.
Agencies, consultancies, and studios sell expertise by the hour, the project, and the retainer. We keep the economics of that work visible from proposal to payment.
Where we work
For firms where the work is the business.
Consultancies & advisory firms
Expert time, fixed fees, work in progress, and client concentration.
Production & project businesses
Budgets, milestones, change orders, and completion risk.
Expert-led professional firms
Founder expertise, pricing, capacity, and the path beyond founder-managed finance.
The life of the project
One engagement.
Four financial lives.
A project can look strong when it is sold and very different by the time it is delivered and collected. The numbers should follow the full arc.
01Sold
The commercial promise
Fee, scope, billing terms, and the margin the work is expected to create.
02Staffed
The delivery plan
Roles, rates, utilization, and the cost of the team assigned.
03Delivered
The work in motion
Time used, scope movement, committed costs, and the margin still expected at completion.
04Collected
The economic result
Billing, receivables, write-offs, and what the engagement returned in the end.
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