Revenue up, profit flat: the hidden margin leak
Revenue grew. Profit stayed flat. Here's how £480k vanished over 18 months, and the margin erosion patterns hiding in your management accounts....
Built for UK SMEs | £1m–£50m Turnover
Most owner-led businesses aren't sellable. They're just expensive jobs.
Precision diagnostic tools for owners who want a business that runs. Then grow it, sell it, or keep it.
How it works
1
Choose your focus
Founder dependency, cash resilience, or financial health: pick the diagnostic that fits your priority.
2
Run the diagnostic
Each diagnostic takes 4–8 minutes. No signup required. Honest answers get honest results.
3
See where you stand
See a scored breakdown across the dimensions that matter in a boardroom. Know what to fix, in what order, and why it costs you.
Insights
Design flaw, not delegation failure
Your business has a design flaw, not a delegation problem. What 14 holiday phone calls reveal about founder dependency and its real cost....
Build a finance function buyers want. Run it like you're keeping it
Finance-Ready scores your finance function across eight pillars. Know what buyers would find before they find it, and fix it on your own terms. 8–10 minutes....
Find the decisions routing through you. See what they cost.
Decisions that route through you cost something. Margin leak, delayed hires, stalled contracts, a lower valuation if you ever sell....
Your runway is a range, not a number
Your spreadsheet says you have 14.2 months of runway. That number feels solid. It isn't. Cash doesn&...
The Authority Gap: 7 metrics that expose succession risk in UK SMEs
The more indispensable you become, the less your business is worth. The market has a measurement framework for key person risk. Do you?...