Where the dollar goes
52% recon margin
Margin rarely leaks in one dramatic place, it seeps across hundreds of files until a $6M shop takes home like it's doing $3M. The five places it goes, in order of cost, and the one leak under all the others.
Live · from your books
Quarter close · 15 minRecon margin
52%
AR aging
↓ 31d
Supplement
78%
First-pass
84%
Your numbers live in three places that don't talk. By the time the month-end spreadsheet exists, every decision is a post-mortem. What restoration business intelligence actually means, and why visibility changes how the team operates.
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