Find the profit you already have.
We find where profit, capacity and management attention are being lost, put a number on what we find, and help fix the few things worth fixing.
Where it goes
Revenue grew. Profit didn’t follow.
It is rarely one big thing. It is usually five or six ordinary ones that nobody decided to keep, and that no report shows separately.
What sits in the gap
- Pricing
- Discounts
- Rework
- Admin
- Waiting
Three ways in
Which of these sounds like your business?
Each one is fixed scope and fixed price. For context: at £5m turnover, a one percent movement in margin is £50,000 a year.
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Profit Leak Diagnostic
Where is the money actually going?
We work through your numbers and how the work actually gets done, and find where margin is going.
You leave with A short list of where profit is leaking, what each one is worth, and what to do first.
Explore the Profit Leak -
Founder Bottleneck Diagnostic
Is the business too dependent on you?
We look at what still has to go through you, and work out what could sit somewhere else.
You leave with A plan for what moves off your desk, who owns it, and how it gets managed from there.
Explore the Founder Bottleneck -
Performance Management Sprint
Do your numbers tell you what needs attention this week?
We turn what you’re trying to achieve into a small set of numbers, and a routine for acting on them.
You leave with A handful of KPIs, named owners, a weekly rhythm, and actions that get tracked.
Explore the Performance Management
What the method has done
The firm is not new.
These are Gribon & Company engagements, at Gribon & Company scale — large regulated manufacturing sites, hundreds of staff. Same firm, same people, same method. The size of the numbers reflects the size of those businesses, not what a £5m business should expect.
- Profit Leak
A global vaccine manufacturer was losing money through discounting and invoicing errors.
Several million dollars recovered, and a discounting process robust enough to stop it recurring.
- Founder Bottleneck
A leadership team where decisions and approvals all routed through the same meetings.
Management meeting time cut by 35%, and thousands of hours handed back to the people running the place.
- Performance Management
A manufacturing site with no current view of how it was actually performing.
100 performance boards across operations and every support function, and decisions that stopped waiting for month end.
We don’t publish a number without a baseline, an owner and a validation method.
Work bending through one person, and the same work with somewhere else to go.
A common one
Most of it still comes back to you.
Quotes, approvals, the awkward customer call. It works, until it is the reason nothing moves when you are away. Worth asking how much of it needs to be you.
How it works
Diagnose, quantify, prioritise, fix.
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Diagnose
We get the numbers, talk to the people who know, and work out what’s causing what.
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Quantify
We put a figure on each one — money, time or capacity.
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Prioritise
Plenty of things could be improved. We work out which few are worth it.
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Fix
You get a practical 90-day plan. Your team can run it, or we stay and put the changes in alongside them.
Who this is for
Established businesses, roughly £2m to £8m.
Usually founder- or owner-led, and past the point where the informal way of doing things still works. Not looking to hire a large consulting firm.
- Revenue is growing but profit isn’t.
- Everything still comes back to the founder.
- Nobody quite trusts the management numbers.
- Sales is inconsistent and we’re not sure why.
- Our processes have accumulated rather than been designed.
- Everyone’s busy, but the priorities aren’t clear.
Worth a conversation?
Tell us what you are seeing. We will tell you which of the three fits, or that none of them do.
Book a 20-minute call