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The 21-Day Revenue Audit · $2–20M home services operators

Find the gap in Columbus.

Where is your business losing revenue? We trace the work from dispatch to job cost, including what you charge and which customers come back. Built for home services businesses in Columbus.

Six numbers. Ninety seconds. No account.

Let’s find the gap$200,000 or the audit is free.

The prices below describe your local market. The calculator uses benchmarks for the broader business region you select.

Benchmark gap · six inputs

Your market, in context

The same trade. A different local market.

Metro reference sheet

Columbus

Columbus, OH

See what services cost in this area. Each price is labeled so you can tell whether it comes from local research or a regional estimate. Open the source to see what it covers.

Metro population

2,225,377

2024

Service price references

These prices are a starting point for comparison. What a job includes will affect its price. They are not quotes for your work and do not measure how much revenue your business is losing.

Where the numbers come from

These industry sources provide context for the estimate. They are not clients, and their inclusion does not prove that we have recovered revenue. The calculator's current basis is provisional.

01ACCA

Contractor operating ratios and labour benchmarks

02PHCC

Plumbing and mechanical pricing standards

03ServiceTitan

Dispatch, booking conversion and utilisation reports

04Housecall Pro

Job margin, average ticket and membership data

05IBISWorld

Revenue-band and regional market sizing

The problem

The work is there. Where is the margin?

Your team is busy and the jobs are getting done. So why doesn't the cash match the effort?

Your dispatch board shows the work. Your invoices show what you billed, and your bank records show what came in. Together, they help explain where the margin went.

Conceptual service-business office, with job records and truck keys in the foreground and service vans beyond the worktable.
AI-generated editorial illustration of a service operation. Not a client photograph.
01 / Demand

Which enquiries never become paid work?

02 / Capacity

Which paid hours never become billable hours?

03 / Margin

Which busy days leave too little behind?

We connect those records and put a dollar value on each gap so you can choose what to fix first.

Inside the audit

Four layers. One connected business.

A missed booking can leave a truck idle. A full schedule can still lose money. We look at how these four parts of your business affect each other before ranking the findings.

  1. 01 / Booking

    Demand is only the beginning.

    We follow enquiries through estimates and bookings to completed jobs, looking for where potential work is lost.

    • Call records
    • Estimates
    • Booked and completed jobs
  2. 02 / Dispatch

    A busy truck is not the same as a productive day.

    We compare crew schedules with drive time and completed jobs. Gaps between visits or work assigned to the wrong truck can leave paid hours unbilled.

    • Crew schedules
    • Drive time
    • Job duration and completion
  3. 03 / Pricing

    Follow the margin through every job.

    We check the price book against labour, materials and final invoices to see which jobs contribute margin and which leave too little behind.

    • Price book
    • Labour and materials
    • Invoices and job costing
  4. 04 / Retention

    The next visit belongs in the same picture.

    We check customer history, follow-up and maintenance plans for missed repeat work. We also compare expected recurring revenue with what customers actually pay.

    • Customer history
    • Follow-up activity
    • Maintenance plans

These diagrams explain the method. They do not show customer results or your benchmark estimate.

Who this is for

Is this the right audit for your business?

We run three or four audits at a time. All four managing partners participate in every audit, which takes three weeks. Fit matters more to us than the fee.

This is for you if
  • You do $2M to $20M and you own the place
  • HVAC, plumbing, electrical, or a mix
  • You use a dispatch or CRM system, even if the records need work
  • Books in QuickBooks or Xero, roughly current
  • Something feels off and you cannot name it
This is not for you if
  • Under $2M in revenue, outside this audit's scope
  • Over $20M in revenue, outside this audit's scope
  • Your records are entirely on paper, with no system data to reconcile
  • You want us to agree with a decision you have made
  • You want implementation included in the audit

How it works

Three weeks. A clear next move.

We interview the people running the business, then check what they tell us against the records. The findings become a plan ordered by priority. Open each step for more detail.

Conceptual overhead view of hands comparing paper records on an audit worktable.
AI-generated editorial illustration of the review process. No client records shown.
01

Listen to the people.

We speak with the owner and the people responsible for operations and finance. Where their accounts differ, we look more closely.

The starting point
  • Owner interviews
  • Operations
  • Finance
What this gives us

A set of specific questions to test against the records.

02

Follow the evidence.

We connect dispatch, CRM and job costing, then reconcile what the records show with what the interviews said.

What we connect
  • Dispatch
  • CRM
  • Job costing
What this gives us

Findings that can be traced back to the work, the invoice and the source.

03

Put the next move first.

We put a dollar value on each gap, compare it with the benchmarks, and identify what to address first.

What you leave with
  • Ranked leak list
  • Margin Integrity Score
  • 90-day roadmap
The handover

A source line under every figure and a plan your team can run without us.

Explore an illustrative report

Example output

One business. One ranked answer.

Try changing how much of each sample finding can be recovered. The totals and priorities will change with your assumptions.

Illustrative revenue auditWorking example / 01

Sample recovery opportunity

$211,000

Across 4 connected stages. Move the controls to see how the priorities change.

Sample leakage$340,000
Full sample potential$211,000
Sample leakageSelected recovery

Inspect the assumption / Booking

What changes when less is recovered?

You may not win back every missed booking. Lower the recovery level to see whether booking should still be a priority.

Choose how much of each opportunity is recovered. The sample leakage stays fixed.

Adjust the example
100%
$0$54,000 potential
100%
$0$96,000 potential
100%
$0$41,000 potential
100%
$0$20,000 potential

The ranked answer

Dispatch comes first.

The sample points to dispatch. Follow paid crew hours through to completed, billable work.

$96,000 of $211,000 in the adjusted example — 45% of the total.

Compare every figure
Original sample figures and your adjusted illustration
StageSample leakageOriginal potentialSelected recovery
Booking$82,000$54,000$54,000
Dispatch$147,000$96,000$96,000
Pricing$71,000$41,000$41,000
Retention$40,000$20,000$20,000
Total$340,000$211,000$211,000

Illustrative report, not client results or an estimate for your business.

Each slider selects a share of the full sample recovery potential. The leakage figures stay fixed so you can compare the scenarios.

What you get

The work, in your hands.

See how each finding is documented and how your team can use it. Open the sample working papers below.

01

Findings ranked by dollar value

Every finding carries a number and a source line you can check.

Working paper / 01

A ranked finding, with its source attached.

Highest priority01
Next priority02
Then03

Source line: input file → checked record → finding.

Illustrative document format. No client results are shown.
02

Measured against shops like yours

Compared with businesses in your trade, revenue band and region rather than a single national average.

Working paper / 02

The comparison has to fit the business.

TradeYour trade
Revenue bandYour revenue band
RegionYour region
Example comparison fields. Your report explains the benchmarks used.
03

A plan you can run without us

Written for your operations manager. If you never call us again, it still works.

Working paper / 03

Ninety days, in an order your team can use.

Days 01–30Address the first finding
Days 31–60Measure the change
Days 61–90Review the outcome
Illustrative roadmap structure. Actual priorities follow the audit.
04

No obligation to buy further work

The report is complete on its own. It is not a quote for further work.

Working paper / 04

The diagnosis stands on its own.

AuditA fixed fee
ImplementationYour choice
The planYour team can run it
A report structure, not a quote for the next engagement.
Open the illustrative report overview
Recoverable, ranked
$211,000

across four stages, each with a source line you can check

Margin integrity
63/100

with four sub-scores

Stages priced
6

first call through repeat

Roadmap
90 days

prioritised, runnable without us

The shape of what lands on your table. Figures are illustrative; yours are drawn from your own dispatch and job-costing data.

What stands behind itOperating-system precedent

Thirty locations. No system. We mapped all of it.

30locations mapped
$20–50Mannual business revenue
Ldgerlythe resulting system

Before Anchorfield, we mapped and rebuilt the operating system of a thirty-location wholesale business doing $20–50M a year. We interviewed every decision maker and traced how the business actually worked, including where information stopped reaching the people who needed it.

That work became Ldgerly. It checks receiving against orders and tracks inventory by location. Transfers stay open until both ends confirm them. It also covers delivery through customer sign-off, returns, and reconciliation against QuickBooks.

Our experience comes from another trade.
The distinction that matters

No Anchorfield audit has been delivered to a home services company yet. You should hear that from us.

And we find $200,000 or you pay nothing.

What this costs separately

You could buy the pieces. Here is what they go for.

The same work, bought separatelyMarket rate
Fractional CFO, three months$9,000 – $21,000
Trade benchmarking membership, one year$5,000 – $8,000
Operations consulting engagement$10,000 – $50,000
The Revenue Audit$10,000

These figures are published market rates that you can check.

Pricing

The Revenue Audit

$10,000

A fixed, one-time fee with no tiers. It pays for a complete diagnosis, with no obligation to buy further work.

Let’s find the gap

If we do not find at least $200,000 in recoverable revenue, the audit is free.

The complete scope

  1. Full data pull across dispatch, CRM and job costing
  2. Interviews with owner, operations and finance
  3. Four dimensions scored against trade, revenue band and region
  4. Dollar-ranked leak list and a Margin Integrity Score
  5. 90-day prioritised roadmap, plus a walkthrough call

Three or four engagements at a time. Ask about current availability.

The guarantee

If we don't find at least

$200,000

in recoverable revenue, you pay nothing for the audit. You will not receive a partial refund or credit toward future work instead.

The threshold is a fixed dollar amount above the audit fee. It is the same whether your revenue is $2M or $20M.

The only thing you risk is about two hours of your team's time.

Questions

Why would I pay $10,000 when other firms will audit my business for free?

Our fee pays for the diagnosis itself. You receive a complete report and roadmap whether or not you hire us to implement it.

What do you actually need from me?

Interviews with you, operations and finance, plus exports from dispatch, CRM and job costing. The data pull is about an hour.

What if you don't find $200,000?

You pay nothing for the audit. The threshold is $200,000, rather than a multiple of our fee.

Do I have to hire you to fix what you find?

No. The roadmap is written for your operations manager to run without us.

What happens to my data?

We use your identifiable data only for your audit. Benchmark comparisons use aggregates and never identify a company.

The Revenue Audit

You already know something is wrong.

Spend ninety seconds with the calculator for a provisional range based on businesses like yours.