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REVENUE IS UP.
THE BANK ACCOUNT DIDN'T GET THE MEMO
You're working harder than ever. The shop is slammed. The crews are out.
The jobs are there. But at the end of the month, the margin isn't where it should be. The jobs looked good when they were quoted. Somewhere between the estimate and the final invoice, the money went somewhere else.
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That gap has a specific address. We find it.
SOUND FAMILAR?
You're billing the work.
You're not keeping the margin.
The money isn't disappearing because you made bad decisions. It's leaking through the gaps in your system — between the bid and the job, between the job and the invoice, between the invoice and the bank.
QUOTE ACCURACY
Your bids are winning. But labor runs long, materials go over, and the job that looked profitable ends up at break-even.
SCOPE CONTROL
Change orders slip through. Scope creep doesn't get billed. The crew does the work, but the invoice doesn't reflect it.
PRODUCTIVITY
Your schedule says the job should take 120 hours, but the crew logs 165 — not from laziness, but from waiting, rework, and bad work sequences.
BILLING DISIPLINE
Jobs finish, but billing waits for paperwork, approvals, or someone finding the time. Revenue that should be in the bank this month quietly slides into the next.
DATA VISIBILITY
Your accounting tells you what happened last quarter. You need to know which job, which crew, which hour is draining margin today.
WHY MICK?
I've been in this from both sides.
I started in operations in a small plumbing company — rebuilding billing systems, standardizing truck inventory, implementing job costing where there wasn't any. That was my first real lesson in the gap between work completed and money collected.
I spent the next 30 years inside job-based businesses — on the shop floor, in the field, and in the seat of the owner when the month-end numbers didn't add up. Quoting systems. Job costing models. Lean operations. Margin diagnostics. I built these tools because I needed them. Because the owners I worked with needed them. Because nobody was showing up with answers that actually fit the work.
Get UnLooped is the practice I built to do that at scale — for the owner-operator who's doing the work right and still can't figure out where the money goes.
30+ Years — Operational experience across trades, manufacturing, and field service
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt — Built for operators, not academics
$50M+ — In operational improvements diagnosed and implemented
Owner-Operator — Operational decisions made with my own money at risk
HOW IT WORKS
Three Steps to a Profit Leak Map
No software. No weeks of analysis. One 60-minute conversation and you walk away knowing exactly where your margin is going.
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BOOK YOUR SCAN
Schedule 60 minutes. No prep work required on your end.
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RECEIVE YOUR MAP
Within 24 hours you get a Profit Leak Map showing where the money is going and what recovery looks like.
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FIX IT FOREVER
Close the leaks with a system that works independent of gut feel and tribal knowledge.
RESULTS
WHAT CHANGES WHEN THE LEAK CLOSES
+24%
Improvement in pricing accuracy after systematic cost modeling replaced estimating by feel.
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Engineering Firm
7→2
Days to complete a bid package after workflow redesign. Faster bids, better margins, less rework.
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-Trades Contractor
+32%
Throughput increase after downtime was cut 45% using SMED changeover reduction.
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Specialty Manufacturer
THE COST OF DOING NOTHING
EVERY MONTH WITHOUT A FIX IS ANOTHER MONTH OF RECOVERABLE MARGIN WALKING OUT THE DOOR
For a $5M contractor leaking 6% of revenue — that's $25,000 a month. $300,000 a year. Not overhead. Not market conditions. Recoverable operational leakage.
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The problem doesn't get better on its own. It compounds. Owners who ignore it don't eventually sell their business for what it's worth. They hand it to someone else to figure out — or they keep working harder for the same result until they can't anymore.
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You already know something is wrong. The scan takes 60 minutes. The Profit Leak Map is free.
WHAT THE OTHER SIDE LOOKS LIKE
WHAT YOU GET WHEN THE SYSTEM WORKS
A business where margin is predictable, the numbers are trustworthy, and you can hand it to a buyer or successor without the whole thing walking out the door with you.
JOB LEVEL VISIBILITY
Know which job, which crew, and which hour is draining margin — before the invoice closes.
INDEPENDENT OPERATIONS
Profit doesn't depend on the owner being in every room. The workflow carries it.
QUOTES THAT HOLD
Bids built on actual cost data, not instinct. Margin that survives contact with the job.
EXIT READY BUSINESS
Documented systems. Predictable margins. A business a buyer can value — and run without you.
FIND OUT WHERE YOUR MARGIN IS GOING
One 60-minute conversation. A Profit Leak Map within 24 hours. No software. No commitment. Free.