We find the jobs, products, and services that quietly lose money inside your healthy-looking totals — quantified in dollars, with a plan to fix pricing first.
Get a free Margin CheckFree. Built mostly from information you already have.
If it shows you nothing new, throw it away.
Different businesses, same blindness: revenue is visible, profit per unit is not.
A few jobs every year ship below true cost. They net out against the winners at year-end, so nobody ever sees them by name.
One service and one chair earn most of the profit. The rest look busy — and bring in almost nothing after real costs.
Your prices were set when materials cost less. Every order since has quietly given margin away, one unit at a time.
The money isn't missing. It's hiding inside the averages.
Whatever your unit is, the math is the same · jobs · quotes · SKUs · services · appointments · menu items · contracts · clients
One page from one report you already have. Where your money concentrates, what looks underpriced, and one number you didn't know about your own business.
Free · no obligation
True profit on every job, product, or service — by name. Prices re-based to today's costs. The below-cost work surfaces. Changes what you charge tomorrow.
Flat project fee · scoped up front
Every month: what moved, what's leaking, and what to reprice next — on one page. Your pricing stays calibrated as costs drift. Cancel anytime.
Monthly · cancel anytime
Small businesses get offered two answers, and both are wrong-sized. Ops Pulse sits in the space between.
$300–3,000 / month
Months of setup — and someone still has to read it, every week, forever.
$5,000+ / month
Real expertise, priced for companies far bigger than an owner-run shop.
A fraction of either
Your pricing department, part-time. Built in the tools you already own — no new software, no new habits.
Every business type hides money in its own way. These are the places we look first — and what surfacing them is typically worth.
In a shop billing under $1M, typically two to four jobs a year ship below cost — hidden inside a healthy annual total. Add a custom-size surcharge that doesn't cover its real hours, and prices lagging material costs.
Usually worth $8–15K/yr in repriced work
One service and one provider usually carry the profit. After real labor and product costs, a "popular" line often earns almost nothing — and the schedule stays too full to notice.
Usually 2–4 margin points hiding in the mix
SKUs priced before costs rose, freight that under-recovers on heavy items, and option tiers copied across products instead of built from cost — leaking a little margin on every single order.
Often one price change pays for the engagement
These are the patterns, not client stories — real results live under Recent findings as engagements close. If your business doesn't match any of these, that's what the free Margin Check is for.
Every engagement produces something you can hold, read in minutes, and act on. Here's the shape of each one.
| Job | Billed | Margin |
|---|---|---|
| #4841 | $2,200 | +41% |
| #4849 | $5,200 | +22% |
| #4852 | $3,800 | −14% |
| #4860 | $4,200 | +25% |
Shown as samples with illustrative numbers — your versions are built from your data, in the tools you already own.
Ops Pulse applies quality-engineering discipline — the rigor used to find waste and variance in complex, high-stakes operations — to the businesses that can't hire an analyst.
Backed by an MBA's financial lens, the work doesn't stop at charts: every finding arrives as a dollar figure and a decision. Local to the Memphis area, working with owners anywhere.
This space is reserved for real results from real engagements — the specific dollar figures we've surfaced for clients. We'd rather show you nothing than show you something invented. Ask us where the first one stands.
Tell us what kind of business you run. We'll tell you which report to send — usually one you can export in five minutes.
No obligation. We reply within one business day.
Your information is never shared.
Direct: camerone@ops-pulse.com