Most contractors track the wrong numbers.

They stare at revenue, bank balance, and net profit and think they have control.

They don’t.

Those are lagging indicators. They tell you what already happened.

The contractors who scale more profitably pay attention to leading indicators like:
• Gross profit by job,
• Overhead trend,
• Backlog quality,
• Pipeline quality,
• Collections,
• Cost per lead
• Cost of acquisition
• Employee stability,
• Customer satisfaction, and
• Safety

If you wait for net profit to tell you there’s a problem, you’re already late.

That’s where a lot of construction businesses lose money without seeing it early enough to fix it.

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