Growth Constraint Check
Growth usually does not create ten equal problems. This check helps you find the one issue limiting completed work, cash, and crew output.
Open the free toolFree field tools
Simple tools for running a growing trade company.
Use these worksheets to tell the truth about work, protect the crew, improve cash flow, and make better promises.
Built from lessons Will Marsh learned helping a local plumbing company grow from about $4 million to $40 million in annual revenue.
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Each tool has a printable one-page PDF and an editable spreadsheet. No email is required.
14-Day Cash Flow Check
Booked work is not cash. Follow each job from ready work to completed work, invoices, and collection so the team knows what must move next.
Open the free toolLost Crew Time Tracker
A full day is not always a productive day. Track the hours lost to preventable travel, waiting, searching, switching, and callbacks.
Open the free toolFalse-Start Cost Calculator
Starting an unready job does not create progress. It creates travel, waiting, rework, and delayed billing. Put a real number on it.
Open the free toolFive-Question Crew Release Check
This works for service and project work. The details change, but the rule does not: planning is always allowed; release must be protected.
Open the free toolSchedule Truth Check
A date is not a plan. Check readiness, capacity, priority, and ownership before the company promises the work.
Open the free toolBacklog Truth Test
A sold job is not always a ready job. Test the next 20 open jobs before the backlog makes another promise for your crew.
Open the free toolWant the operating ideas behind the tools?
The 50% Problem explains why growing companies create their own constraint and how to restore flow.