Without it
Revenue is known, cost is roughly known, and the two are never put against a specific job. So the client who felt difficult and the client who was difficult are indistinguishable, and you keep taking the same work.
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PROFIT
Project economics, margin and commercial learning.
“We were busy all year. Did we make anything?”
Rs 1,299/mo, per workspace
No card. Shell is included at no charge, and PROFIT is Rs 1,299 a month afterwards, or part of the Studio Suite at Rs 3,499 for all nine.
Per project, not per year
Margin while you can still act on it.
Quoted against actual
What you said it would take, and what it took.
Learned, not noted
Next quotation starts from this one.
Who it is for, and why it matters
Who it is for
Anyone who has finished a busy year without knowing which parts of it made money.
What it does
Project economics, margin and commercial learning.
Why it matters
Most studios learn their margin at the end of the year, across everything, which is too late and too vague to change anything.
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Of seven stations
Where the project reports back.
2
Numbers that matter
What you charged, and what you kept.
1
Loop closed
The estimate is corrected by the outcome.
What changes
With it
Margin per project, per client, and across the year, built from the scope, the quote and the hours the work actually took. The unprofitable pattern becomes visible while there is still time to stop it.
What it does
- Compares what was sold, promised, produced and earned
- Margin by project and by client, with scope creep priced
- Change requests valued before they are agreed to
- Distinguishes fact from forecast from recommendation, and never invents a number
It replaces: Finding out in March · A P&L that tells you the year was fine without telling you which half of it was not.
Where it sits
PROFIT is not a station in the sequence. It sits across it.
Questions
- Is this accounting?
- No. It is project economics: what a job was meant to make, what it made, and where the difference went. Your accountant still does the accounts.
- Where do the numbers come from?
- Scope, Quote and Deliver, which is why it costs nothing extra to keep current.
Try it
14 days of real use, no card. If it is not obviously worth paying for by the end, the right answer is for us to improve it rather than to rely on you forgetting to cancel.