Don't Finance the Job

Same $40,000 patio, same profit, same crew. One company never goes under. The other spends 10 weeks $28,000 under water on a job it's making money on.

Video coming

The sheets are ready now. The episode lands here the day it's up.

What this one covers

  1. 1

    The same patio drawn twice, week by week. Profit is a number about a period; cash is a fact about a day.

  2. 2

    What bad terms actually cost, and it isn't the interest. It's the jobs you can't take.

  3. 3

    Four fixes that are free, and the mistake that kills companies in a good year: a deposit is not income.

The sheets

This episode hasn't been recorded yet. The sheets go up here the same day it does.

Prices are mine. Yours are different. The math is the same.

Who made this

Ledge is software for landscape design-build. These sheets are the thinking underneath it.

Every number on these sheets is the kind Ledge carries for you on a real job: the burdened hour, the man-hours a price buys, what the crew actually did against it. The first ten shops run Ledge free; we make money only on payments. If you want to see it on your own jobs, there's one person to talk to.