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Margin Forge

You think you make 40%.
You keep 26%.

Margin Forge knows your real margin on every job, finds the points leaking out of it, discounts, callbacks, the scope you did and never billed, cost creep, and plugs them while you can still do something about it.

Your books tell you what happened, sixty days too late. This tells you while the job is still open.

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Finding leaks now$21,400 recovered this month
Margin IQ+$1,800
Found $1,800 of scope done and never billed on the Patterson job
Did drafted the change order, sent for approval
Pricing IQ+$1,400
Found A rep discounted past the floor to close a soft deal
Did held the line and flagged it
Cost IQ+2 pts held
Found A vendor slipped material prices 6%
Did passed it through on new quotes
Margin IQ+3 pts
Found Callbacks quietly bleeding one crew's jobs
Did flagged the prep miss before it ships
Illustrative. The points it catches before they leave the job.
The number you never actually see

The job looked profitable.
Then it wasn't.

You bid it at a healthy margin. Then a discount got handed out, the crew ran long, a callback ate a day, and you did a pile of extra work nobody billed. By the time the books close, the profit is gone and the job is long over.

At the bidYou quoted it at 41%. On paper, a good job.41% quoted
On the doorA rep knocked 8% off to close it. Nobody flagged it.points gone
On siteThe scope grew. Your crew did the extra work and never wrote it up.unbilled
Two weeks laterA callback sent a tech back for a day. Pure loss on a job already closed.callback = loss
At month endThe books say you kept 26%. You have no idea where the other 15 points went.26% kept

Margin Forge watches every one of those points in real time, names exactly where each one went, and hands you the play to get it back.

Where your 15 points went

Quoted 41 percent.
Kept 26.

Margin Forge follows the margin from the bid to the books and names every point that leaked out, with the play to recover it. This is one job, itemized:

You quoted41%
You kept26%
15 points gone
Scope you did and never billed It drafts the priced change order the moment scope grows
Margin IQ-5 pts$6,200
Discounts handed out past the floor It holds the floor and flags the rep before it ships
Pricing IQ-4 pts$4,400
Callbacks and rework It catches the prep miss that causes the callback
Margin IQ-3 pts$3,900
Vendor and material cost creep It passes the cost through into pricing in real time
Cost IQ-2 pts$2,600
Crew ran long on labor It flags the job running over while it still can
Cost IQ-1 pts$1,500
Margin IQ is plugging these now. Recovered this month: $0
Illustrative. One job, followed from the bid to the books.
The leak nobody talks about

The work you already did.
Finally billed.

Scope grows on every job. The customer asks for one more thing, the conditions change, the crew handles it, and it never makes it onto an invoice. That is not a favor, it is your margin walking out the door. Margin Forge catches the change the moment it happens and turns it into a priced, approved change order before the crew packs up.

Caught in the momentThe change is flagged on site, not remembered weeks later when it is too late to bill.
Priced automaticallyTo your real cost and target margin, so the extra work carries its weight.
Approved on the spotA tap from the customer before the crew packs up, no awkward callback later.
On the job right now+$1,800 this change order
On siteScope changesthe customer adds work, or the job runs into something new
Margin IQIt catches it instantlythe change is flagged against the original scope
PricedA change order is draftedpriced to your real cost and margin, in seconds
ApprovedThe customer okays ita tap, before the crew leaves the driveway
BilledIt lands on the invoicethe work you did is the money you keep
$0 in change orders captured this month that used to walk away
Illustrative. The scope you used to eat, billed before the crew packs up.
Which work actually pays

Some jobs build the business.
Some quietly bleed it.

Margin Forge scores real margin by service line, by trade, and by crew, so you chase the work that pays and fix or fire the work that does not. A read on one shop:

Emergency and same-day52%your best work, do more of it
Replacements44%strong, protect the price
Service calls37%healthy with tight routing
Maintenance plans29%recurring, worth the lower point
New construction14%thin, watch the mix creep
Warranty and callbacks-6%pure loss, kill the root cause
The intelligence on your margin

Three engines.
Not one point left on the table.

Always running, sharing one memory, so a discount, a cost spike, or an unbilled change instantly shows up against the job's real margin. Tap one to see what it catches.

Knows the real margin on every job, trade, and crew, and finds the points leaking out of it.

Margin IQ · catching now
  • Caught scope done on site that never made it to an invoice
  • Flagged callbacks quietly bleeding one crew's jobs
  • Spotted low-margin work creeping up in the mix
  • Ranked every service line by the margin it actually keeps
Hold it up against your books

Your accountant tells you in sixty days.
This tells you today.

Your books are a rear-view mirror. By the time they close, the job is over and the margin is gone. Margin Forge runs on the live job.

Your books and spreadsheetsMargin Forge
When you find out At month end, job long closed While the job is still open
Margin per job A guess, averaged across the month To the dollar, every job
Scope you did free Absorbed and forgotten Caught and billed as a change order
Discounts Show up in a soft month Flagged the moment they cross the floor
Cost spikes You eat them until you notice Passed through into pricing in real time
Which work pays You think you know Ranked by real margin, line by line
You set how far it goes

Full autopilot, or
approve every move.

Margin Forge protects the margin as much or as little as you allow. Set the posture once, it holds the line, you handle the judgment calls.

It holds the floor, captures the change orders, and flags only the calls.

YouYou handle the calls
Margin ForgeProtects the margin
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