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The crew built the extra work. The change order never got billed.

You run jobs through Buildertrend or JobTread, bids through spreadsheets, money through QuickBooks — and revenue leaks in the seams between them. Quiet proposals, unconfirmed walkthroughs, change orders on a handshake, signed jobs waiting on a start date. The Revenue Review reads your own records, finds each leak, and puts a monthly dollar figure on it — in two weeks, for a $4,500 fixed fee.

Or call +1 (202) 600-6027 — a person answers.

The pattern

You have probably seen all three of these this quarter.

  • 01

    The bid that went quiet

    You spent half a Saturday on the takeoff and sent a clean proposal for a full kitchen gut. The homeowner said they needed to talk it over. That was five weeks ago, and no one in your shop owns the callback.

  • 02

    The walkthrough nobody confirmed

    Your estimator drove forty minutes to a site visit booked eight days earlier. No confirmation text ever went out, the homeowner forgot, and the truck came back empty. The afternoon is gone and the lead has cooled.

  • 03

    The job sold but not started

    The contract signed in April and the deposit cleared. Then selections stalled, the permit sat in review, and the homeowner heard nothing for weeks. By the time you called to schedule, the warmth was gone — and so was the referral that usually comes with it.

What we price

The leaks that get a monthly dollar figure.

  • Open bids and proposals sitting out with no follow-up call scheduled
  • Change orders performed on a text or a handshake and never invoiced
  • Site visits and walkthroughs that no-show because no one confirmed
  • Signed jobs idling between contract and mobilization while deposits, selections, and permits wait on a chase
  • Final draws, punch-list holdbacks, and retainage that age long past closeout

The records we read

We take read-only access to your project management system — Buildertrend, JobTread, or Procore, or the spreadsheet standing in for one — plus QuickBooks, your estimating files, and the shared inbox where proposals go to wait.

Three questions

If any of these takes more than a minute, that is the finding.

  1. 01

    How many open bids are out right now with no follow-up scheduled — and what do they add up to?

  2. 02

    How many change orders did your crews perform last quarter that never made it onto an invoice?

  3. 03

    On your last ten jobs, how many days passed between contract signed and crew on site?

Not knowing them is not a failing — it is the exact gap The Revenue Review is built to close. More straight answers: fourteen of them, in writing.

If the numbers earn it

What gets built afterwards — in your terms.

Revenue recovery →
A worked list of every quiet bid, every unbilled change order, and every aging final draw — each with an owner and a next action, instead of living in a PM’s memory.
Client communication →
Confirmation texts before every walkthrough, a set follow-up cadence after every proposal, and scheduled updates between signing and breaking ground — so the homeowner isn’t the one calling you.
Operations →
The handoff from sold to started runs on a checklist — deposit, selections, permits, schedule — so signed jobs stop sliding right on the calendar while everyone assumes someone else is on it.

Only what the arithmetic justifies — we do not prescribe what we have not diagnosed. The order comes from the Review, not from a brochure.

Who this is not for

We would rather say it here than on the call.

  • Subs and trade contractors running on two or three GC relationships — your pipeline is those relationships, not a follow-up system.

  • Anyone shopping for lead generation. We don’t buy you leads; we stop you from losing the ones already in your inbox.

  • Builders whose change orders are signed before the sawzall comes out. If that’s you, we salute you — and you don’t need us.

Asked on almost every call

The two questions owners here ask first.

We already run Buildertrend. Doesn’t it catch this?
Buildertrend records what your team enters, and the leaks live in what never gets entered — the change order agreed to in a text thread, the proposal marked “sent” with no next step behind it, the job that sits sold but unscheduled. We read what the system says against what your bank, invoices, and calendar say actually happened, and put a dollar figure on the gaps. Most of the fix list turns on features you already pay for. The software isn’t the problem; the missing habits around it are.
We’re booked out for months. Why do this now?
Booked solid is when the leaks run widest — bids go quiet because everyone is on site, and change-order paperwork loses to production every single day. A full backlog also hides whether the work you’re buried in is your most profitable work. The Review runs on read-only access to your records and a few conversations; it doesn’t pull your PM off a job. It starts with a free 20-minute call, and if the fit isn’t there, we’ll say so on that call.

The next step

Tell us what isn’t getting followed up. We’ll tell you if we can help.

A 20-minute call about your numbers — no deck, and a straight answer either way, including “not yet” if that is the truth.

We use this to call you back about your inquiry. We do not sell or share it, and one line asking us to stop is enough.

We call web forms back the same business day. Or skip the form — +1 (202) 600-6027.

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