For landscapers who can grow the work but not the margin.
You can sell the route. You can win the design-build. What you can't see is which crews are actually profitable, which accounts are eating your margin, and where the margin goes week to week. We fix that.
This is for you if:
You've got more than three crews in the field and you can't tell which ones are actually profitable per route
Your maintenance contracts are priced from gut, not from real cost-per-account data
Design-build jobs end and you have no idea what they actually netted until it's too late to learn from
Crew hours, fuel, and material are tracked loosely if at all, and you suspect the real numbers would surprise you
You've thought about hiring an operations manager but $90K plus benefits feels heavy right now
Five places we find money in landscaping companies.
Maintenance accounts priced below true cost.
Some accounts on your route are losing you money every visit and you don't know which ones. Without per-account cost tracking (labor, fuel, materials, drive time), pricing is a guess. Recovering 5 to 10 underwater accounts by repricing or releasing them is six-figure profit on a $3M company.
Design-build jobs that close out unprofitable.
A big design-build job with a great top-line revenue number can quietly lose money on materials overruns, scope creep, and unbilled change orders. Without real-time job costing, you find out months after the crew has moved on. Real visibility turns this from a recurring drag into a learnable system.
Crew hours that drift.
Crews start late, finish early, take long lunches, and the time card says they worked a full day. Without a real-time labor tracking system tied to the actual job, you're paying for hours you're not getting work for. Tighten this and crew productivity climbs 10 to 15 percent.
Upsells the crews never mention.
Every visit is a chance to flag drainage issues, irrigation upgrades, plant replacements, mulch top-offs, hardscape repairs. Without a system that prompts the conversation, it depends on the crew lead's mood. Most crews are cutting and blowing and never looking up.
Equipment shrinkage and repair drift.
Trimmers, blowers, and small tools walk away. Mowers go down and stay down because nobody owns the maintenance schedule. Fuel disappears at rates nobody tracks. Nobody sees the cost until the season is over.
Three steps.
Step 1: Map how your business runs.
In month one we map how work actually moves through your business: your route economics, your design-build job costing, your crew time tracking, your equipment management, your upsell capture. Then we build in the order that pays back first.
Step 2: The Foundation, in phases.
Over the first six months we build your Lead, Sell, Deliver and Service systems in the order that pays back first, matched to how your business makes money.
Step 3: We run it with you.
Run work every month, one scorecard you can read in a minute, and new projects from your backlog, all on one monthly partnership.
Operators, not consultants.
We've sat in your chair.
We've worked inside service companies. We're not coming at this from a software vendor's perspective. We've watched what actually breaks as service businesses scale.
We build, then we stay.
We ship working systems: CRM, canvassing, contracts, job management and reviews, connected end to end. Then we keep them running with you every month.
We stay to run it.
Building is how a partnership starts. Run work every month keeps the system working as your business grows, and new projects keep coming off your list.
Start with a 20-minute call.
Start with a free 20-minute call. Walk us through how a job moves from the first contact to the review, and we'll tell you which system to build first.