Industries / Industrial & Manufacturing
Know your true cost per job.
For owner-run manufacturers, job shops, and fabricators. See the true cost of every job — and price it right.
Who this is for
Built for businesses like yours.
Owner-operated manufacturers, job shops, and fabricators — roughly $2M–$20M — running on an ERP and QuickBooks, with detailed job and cost data that almost never gets analyzed.
The problems we solve
Sound familiar?
- True cost and margin by job, product, and customer are unclear
- Quoting and pricing lag rising labor and material costs
- Capacity and throughput constraints
- Customer concentration risk
- Inconsistent operational data
How we help
The offer.
Start with the Business X-Ray to expose pricing and margin leaks fast; then a Profit Map by job and customer, and a plan to fix quoting and mix.
The Aperture Method phases: Focus · Quantify · Chart · Execute
- Business X-Ray
- Profit Map
- Focus Plan
- Scoreboard
What the work looks like.
Representative case study · Illustrative
An $8M metal-fabrication job shop that quoted on gut.
The shop quoted work the way it always had — on experience and a feel for the shop rate. Margins were slipping and the owner couldn't say which jobs were the problem. FOCUS named the constraint: quoting that hadn't kept pace with labor and material costs. QUANTIFY built a Profit Map by job type and customer and found a large share of jobs run below true cost once setup and rework were counted, with a handful of accounts carrying the rest. CHART introduced quoting discipline, repriced the worst work, and set target margins by job type. EXECUTE tracked margin per job on the Scoreboard. Illustratively, a shop like this could recover several points of margin through pricing and quoting discipline alone — without turning away good work.
What you'd learn first
Do you know your true cost per job — and which work and customers actually make money?
The Business X-Ray is a fixed-fee, low-risk first step — it answers exactly this before you commit to anything more.
See your business clearly. Then watch the strategy run.
Start with the Business X-Ray — a fixed-fee, low-risk first step.