7 metrics that run your business.
Not a dashboard dump. Seven numbers a home-services or PE-backed operator can run weekly — growth, margin, labor, concentration, and cash. Drop your email, print the one-pager, and you're on the book waitlist.
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Print it. Stick it on the wall. Run it every week.
Same waitlist as Growth by the Numbers. Source tagged as metrics so we know how you found us.
Why each one matters if you run crews, branches, or a roll-up.
One sentence each. No fluff. These are the same seven on the homepage — expanded just enough to act on.
- 01
Revenue growth rate
Organic growth the P&L can absorb. A spike from one commercial account or a price war is not a system — PE buyers pay for repeatable, mix-healthy growth.
- 02
Gross margin %
This is where job costing lives: labor, materials, and the trucks. If GM is drifting, crews are slow, tickets are underpriced, or the mix shifted to low-margin work.
- 03
EBITDA margin %
The score after overhead. Home-services platforms die on dispatch bloat, warranty, and hiring their way out of chaos. EBITDA is what sponsors underwrite.
- 04
Billable utilization %
Tech hours on the job vs. paid hours. Every point of idle time is a truck you already paid for. Utilization is the first place scale breaks.
- 05
Revenue per employee
The leverage test. If revenue is up and RPE is flat, you added headcount as a crutch. Platforms that compound keep RPE rising through the growth years.
- 06
Customer concentration %
One builder, one property manager, or one channel at 20%+ of revenue is a covenant and valuation haircut. Diversify before you need the multiple.
- 07
Cash conversion cycle
DSO + inventory/WIP − DPO. Trades get crushed when they grow AR and inventory faster than they collect. Growth that eats cash is not growth a lender will fund.
After you submit, you'll get a print-ready sheet. Or go straight to the one-pager once you're on the list.
A sheet on the wall is the start. The cadence is the system.
If these seven are already leaking, the diagnostic engagement maps the drivers and the 90-day plan.
Your business is bigger than your finance function. Let's fix that.
A 30-minute conversation about where you are, where you're going, and whether the numbers are ready to take you there.
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